Archive for April, 2007

Short Critique/First Impressions on Joost

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

A Short Survey
After four days of using Joost unfettered, a survey was sent out. It was very brief, asking only two questions. The second question was: What do you think of Joost? I attempted to write a brief assessment since the comment box was small, but its still turned into this monster:
The picture quality is [...]

Joost Beta Testing!

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

I received an invitation to beta test Joost last Thursday. I am writing up/editing a preview of it for this Thursday’s post. Hoping to get some invitations to send out soon too!
Related links:

Joost from an HTPC Geek’s View
Guest Post about Joost (pending)
Joost Critique (for version 0.9.1)
Short Critique/First Impressions on Joost

The Click Here Bane

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

I really don’t like the click here syndrome. It drives me nuts. In school the “click here” problem was joked about, but I never thought I would come across a folder at work filled with click here materials. Yes, I renamed it- it was mostly filled with pdfs and random documents. Thought I would share [...]

What is it? Keeping up with Web Technologies

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

I keep hearing about AJAX, Ruby on Rails and Web 2.0 along with a myriad of other buzz words mentioned in podcasts and blogs alike. What are they and why are they important? Five second answers for people with no time or patience to find it.
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Yeah, I know. An acroynm [...]