Oct 2, 2012 0
Transmission with Quick Look
The OSX Transmission BitTorrent client now supports Quick Look in OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) as of version 2.70.
Jun 2, 2010 0
Smokescreen Javascript Flash Player
I’m intrigued by this. On my system, the Flash player plugin is 31MB of top-quality Adobe-compiled code. How can it be that Smokescreen, a Javascript implementation of a Flash player that weighs in at 175.1kB (minified) can fully replicate the functionality of the Adobe player? Either (a) it doesn’t (perhaps a work-in-progress, but still…), or (b) Adobe’s plugin is a steaming pile?
Dec 2, 2009 8
Bittorrent Metainfo File Quick Look Generator 1.2
Re-build as Universal binary.
Version 1.2 now available on the Downloads page.
Nov 1, 2009 5
Bittorrent Metainfo File Quick Look Generator 1.1
I’ve updated the Quick Look generator for bittorrent meta files. Thanks to Guillaume Lessard for pointing out the deficiency in calculating total sizes for super-large torrents. So…it should be okay for a while…
Version 1.1 now available on the Downloads page.
Jun 23, 2009 0
Password Masking
Password masking is the HTML thingy that replaces your password characters with bullet-points as you type. It may not be the perfect or most effective way to stop snoopers, but it’s not meant to be. It’s only meant to be good enough to stop most snoopers – at the very least make it somewhat inconvenient. And it covers casual as well as determined distance creepers with binoculars. He says:
More importantly, there’s usually nobody looking over your shoulder when you log in to a website. It’s just you, sitting all alone in your office, suffering reduced usability to protect against a non-issue.
While I agree with Jakob’s general observations about usability and the apparent cost of failed password attempts, I think the alternative isn’t quite acceptable. Because frankly, we’re not all sitting alone in our office. Many of us, are in fact, in the real world…like airports and coffee shops.
