xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
3rd January 2006

retrievr

“retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. Currently the index contains many of Flickr’s most interesting images. If you’d like to have your images (or the images for a specific tag) added, please let me know. A submission interface is planned!”

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3rd January 2006

How to get that “film-look” a.k.a How to make my cheap DV cam footage look like 35mm

“You’ve just shot some footage and are playing it back on your TV or PC and you notice something just doesn’t look right with the picture. But you can’t put your finger on what it is. It doesn’t look like a film that you would watch on DVD or the cinema. There’s something ‘funny’ about it. Basically you think it looks like crap. But why?”

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3rd January 2006

Rasmus’ 30 second AJAX Tutorial

“I was reading through the mails in the php-general mailing list and came across this mail by Rasmus about AJAX: ‘I find a lot of this AJAX stuff a bit of a hype. Lots of people have been using similar things long before it became ‘AJAX’. And it really isn’t as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be. Here is a simple example from one of my apps…’”

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3rd January 2006

Blog software comparison chart

“This chart is a companion to the article ‘Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?,’ published July 14, 2005 in the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review. Do note that this chart reflects only standard features of the tools’ installation, and not every possible extension, plug-in modification… or hack.”

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