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After living joyfully without fear of pop up ads for quite some time now (between Safari and Firefox's excellent pop up killing powers,) I have been dismayed recently to see these ads appear again. Although I guess they are more 'pop under' than 'pop up'. The trick they have found to beat the blockers is to spawn the new windows using our old (*cough*) friend Flash. Ah, isn't Flash wonderful?

I don't know if Macromedia (Flash's parent company) is going to do anything about this. Or, it would be nice if the browser makers would let you keep Flash installed, but toggled off, and then let you activate it if you really want for a specific site through a menu item (I hear Omniweb can do this.) But until someone does something to fix this problem you will either have to live with some pop under ads once again, or, and I admit I am severely tempted, uninstall Flash. Thanks to Macromedia for at least providing these uninstaller programs (for all platforms.)
- jim 3-10-2005 6:51 pm [link] [2 comments]

Completely bizarre. Sony Ericsson launches the ROB1, a bluetooth wireless roving robot camera you can control from your bluetooth cell phone:

The ROB1 has a range of up to 50 meters (165') and streams what it sees back to your mobile phone so that you can control it properly. The ROB1 should be quite maneuverable, able to move forwards and backwards, and turn on a dime - literally. The ROB1's camera can be pivoted up to 70 degrees up or as far as 20 degrees down, so that you can frame the shot just perfectly. There is even an assist light up front to light up your way as you navigate.
Here's a flash demo from the Sony Ericsson site.
- jim 3-10-2005 6:45 pm [link] [add a comment]

Ping-o-matic is a meta pinging tool for notifying multiple sites that keep track of recently updated weblogs. I'm trying to get the XML-RPC interface to work from our posting script here. It is responding as if it is working, but I'm not seeing myself show up in anybodies 'recently updated' lists. I'll get it eventually though.

Rogers Cadenhead has a free PHP class that does all the heavy lifting.
- jim 3-09-2005 7:21 pm [link] [add a comment]

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