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Flash Player spyware in your computer
The video camera and microphone of your computer can be controlled remotely by web sites if you installed the Flash player using the default settings. This is a great invasion of privacy because most computer users do not know how … Continue reading
HTML web pages for mobile devices
The iPhone and other smart phones have become very popular because in addition to making telephone calls they can also access the Internet, play music, take photographs and record videos. Tablets like the iPad are also increasing in popularity because … Continue reading
Standards compliance vs. cross-browser functionality
Webmaster’s Dilemma. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provides defines for coding HTML and provides a validator to check the markup of HTML and other types of Web documents (http://validator.w3.org/). The advantage of complying with the W3C standards and having … Continue reading
Problems Coding Games with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
Applications coded for the Adobe Flash player are ubiquitous on the Internet. Many web sites exist only as flash implementations. Flash provides a rich environment that can render interactive graphics and sound. The problem with Flash is that it is … Continue reading
WordPress wp-admin/install.php gives blank page
The installation of the WordPress content management system is straightforward with very clear installation instructions. The basic steps consist of 1) downloading the WordPress package, 2) creating a MySQL database and establishing a MySQL user with all privileges for accessing … Continue reading
How to publish an eBook for Kindle
Amazon.com announced that the sale of electronic books for the Kindle reader surpassed the sale of printed books in April 2011. There are many reasons for the shift from print to electronic media, including the fact that thousands of books … Continue reading
Lorton meteorite ownership is disputed
On January 18, 2010 a small stony meteorite weighing 308 grams punched a hole in the roof of a doctor’s office in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Lorton, Virginia. There was some damage to the office, but nobody was hurt. … Continue reading
Pictures of female Body Mass Index (BMI)
I recently mentioned the interesting digital human modeling work being done at the University of Washington. From a published video, I was able to get images corresponding to several important BMI points for a male model, but the video did … Continue reading
HTML and CSS Scrolling table with fixed heading
In web design, you often have to display a table that is too long and ruins the aesthetics of the page. The ideal thing to do is to scroll the body of the table while leaving the headings fixed. The … Continue reading
Comparing Blosxom and WordPress weblogs
The old adage that “necessity is the mother of invention” is so true. When we are frustrated, or our current approach to a problem does not produce satisfactory results, we often try something else, and in the process we may … Continue reading
