One of the most exciting developments in the online video streaming sector next to Flashcom is Flash PHP Streaming. It works by “indexing” an FLV in post-production via a simple application and effectively makes a progressively downloaded Flash Video file “seekable”.
What does that mean? You can fast forward to any section of the movie without having to wait for it to download. And there’s no need for an expensive streaming server. Beautiful.
Get more info and some ready made components here (for a very modest price): Rich Media Project.
The FLV Metadata injector is available at Buraks.com.
Further resources:
An entry in Burak’s blog which is now continued here: Lightcastmedia.
After having been pointed towards the fantastic Tango Open Source Icons Project
I started a search on creative commons for free icons and came across the fabulous FAMFAMFAM and Graphic Push blogs which both offer some fantastic free icons.
Another interesting blog: Pretty Widgets by Kevin Gerich.
March 17, 2006 – 11:22 am
Apples switch to INTEL has initiated heated discussions among developers on where the limit is in terms of cross-OS compatibility. Here are the first visual results:
Windows on Mac
Official Competition Site: http://onmac.net/
Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nzH6OFpXgzI
OSX on PC
Dev Community:
http://www.osx86project.org/
Tutorial (ESP): http://www.cristalab.com/tutoriales/116/instalar-mac-os-x-en-un-pc-intel-x86
Tutorial (ENG):
http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2005/08/3934/
February 24, 2006 – 12:19 pm
February 24, 2006 – 10:06 am
A new set of VoIP telephony callback services is emerging. Two examples:
Jajah - http://www.jajah.com/
Estara - http://www.estara.com/
They are very simple to use, especially jajah which seems to be geared at quick consumer adoption whereas estara is geared more towards enterprises, invites you to try their service. Simply type your telephone number into one field, type the person’s number you are trying to call into the other, click call, and jajah will do the rest. Your phone rings, their phone rings and voilá, you are enjoying
reduced calling rates (around 0,02c/minute for international landline calls).
Many similar services will be emerging over the next months, with additional features which allow you access VoIP networks such as jajah and estara’s push-to-talk without even needing to access your PC or the Internet.
February 1, 2006 – 2:28 pm
Three awesome articles on design guidelines to achieving that apple experience:
Application Design Fundamentals
The Macintosh Experience
The Aqua Interface
Well worth the read!
January 5, 2006 – 2:24 pm
This post is work in progress.
Here is my first set of resources:
Tech Specs for an iTunes compliant podcast
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html#_Toc526931694
http://phobos.apple.com/static/iTunesRSS.html
iTunes Podcasts FAQs
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/faq.html
A working example
http://tuscany.podtravels.tv/feed/
WordPress documentation
http://codex.wordpress.org/Podcasting
Feedburner
http://www.feedburner.com/
I actually got it working by using feedburner, it was very easy, just followed the instructions on feedburner.com, my podcast feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobertStrobl
In iTunes, go to the advanced > subscribe to podcast and enter my url, and you’ll stay in touch with my video podcast.
Or just click here to subscribe via itunes 
2nd podcast
January 4, 2006 – 7:30 pm
Adobe released flash lite 2.0 yesterday.
With the Flash Lite 2 Update for Flash Professional 8, developers can now build content for devices that support Flash Lite 2, and draw on the new features available in the latest mobile player including XML support to handle data more efficiently, device video, and ActionScript 2.0.
Flash Lite 2 includes the following:
- Flash Player 7 support
- ActionScript 2.0 support
- Loading and parsing of XML data
- Ability to store and retrieve persistent data
- Dynamic loading of multimedia content and playback using device-based codecs
- Improved display and handling of fonts
- Shape drawing and animation through ActionScript
The update for your Flash Professional 8 is available here.
January 3, 2006 – 12:12 pm
http://gopod.free-go.net/
Release the sound of your iPod. All legal volume restrictions are removed from yoour iPod. Available for Mac, PC, Linux.
Supports the iPod 3G, 4G, mini, photo, color, nano, 5G (video).
A word of warning by Pete Townshend, The Who:
“I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal components deaf,” he said on his Web site. “Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. If you use an iPod or anything like it, or your child uses one, you MAY be OK … But my intuition tells me there is terrible trouble ahead.”
Check out Pete’s blog, The boy who heard music.
December 31, 2005 – 8:41 pm
Dec. 31st 20:41pm GMT+1. The new blog is born. I will spend the last days of my holiday configuring and getting to use this new platform. I chose WordPress because it seems like a great balance of blog and CMS. So far I havnt regretted my choice. I was lucky enough to choose to start my new site the same day v2.0 came out, and I can tell you, it looks pretty damn sweet!
Anyways, now its time to partyyyyyyyy 
Happy 2006 everyone!