Having spent some time engineering the Flash Video Kit, I can appreciate what having OS-level control can do for a media application.

Steps:
1. Open any QuickTime file, or check out the new Star Wars music video.
2. As it plays, hover over the timeline, and activate your mouse's scroll-wheel.
3. What? You don't have a scroll-wheel mouse? Which mouse-button are you using for Exposé?

When you scroll your mouse, the movie steps forward, and back. PERFECT for skipping around a video, looking for clues.

May 17, 2005

My RSS aggregator mysteriously broke, so I patched it up with Magpie.

The trick is to get your cache directory set to the proper permissions (755).

Now check out learning.dom.net and mob.dom.net.

Thanks for the hint, Eric!

May 15, 2005

It's official - I've got my ticket for Apple's WorldWide Developer's Conference next month in San Francisco!

I Heart Apple.

Last year, they provided a pretty stable version of Tiger. I wonder what it'll be this year? What's next?! New hardware? Mobile? I'm cool with whatever.

My goal this year is to come out with a solid Widget or two to share with you all. If you're going this year, look me up!

May 12, 2005

I've started using the "experimental post to del.icio.us".

Creating a link blog was never so easy. Everything has an RSS feed, of course.

People are creating little web apps around it and whatnot.

It's hot. It is like so five minutes from now.

May 11, 2005

Tim Yang: 15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away).

If you're a Mac user, there is also this simple hack for a Gmail notifier.

Catch the drift!

May 9, 2005

In case you're interested, John Dowdell is blogging the Adobe + Macromedia acquisition.

Business as usual.
Move along.

May 7, 2005

Some of you have asked me, "Dom, what Web hosting service would you recommend?" My answer without hesitation is: DreamHost.

Besides the fact that they are really cool people in real life, DreamHost provides unparalleled features and service for the price. Example: they just TRIPLED my disk space and bandwidth. Same price.

PHP, MySQL, one-click blog installation, secure server, WebDAV, counters, Jabber, merchant services, and lots more (plus: humor). They also offer a referral program that has helped me pay for my Web hosting by taking a cut of your fees. So, please use this link to sign up.

It'd be a whole lot cooler if you did.

May 5, 2005