At home I have a pretty neat media center setup if I say so myself. The core of the whole setup is a Mac Mini running Plex, which indexes all media that I have. To watch any media I either use Plex.app on the Mac Mini itself (or Plex.app on any other Mac in my …
Author Archives: Bramus!
GPU Accelerated CSS Filters in Chromium
img { -webkit-filter: sepia(100%) contrast(200%) blur(5px); } The current set of supported filters in Chromium include many that are familiar to web developers with image processing experience, such as sepia, saturation, opacity, and blurs. GPU acceleration of these filters brings their performance to the point where they can be used for animating elements in conjunction …
Mapping Wars
Google is holding an invitation-only event next week in San Francisco, where it says it will show off the “next dimension” of its Maps product. The event comes a week ahead of when Apple is expected to replace Google as the mapping provider in iOS at its annual developers conference, which starts June 11. Also …
Instantáneas
Opera Mobile Emulator
Fear and Loathing and Windows 8
Windows 8 worries Michael Mace: Be sure to read his insightful (and lengthy) article on Windows 8 too: Windows 8 is very different: attractive in some ways, and disturbing in others. It combines an interesting new interface with baffling changes to Windows compatibility, and amateur mistakes in customer messaging. Add up all the changes, and …
Collusion – See who’s tracking you online
Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers. A neat demo/datavisualization is also available, in case you don’t want to …
Continue reading “Collusion – See who’s tracking you online”
Hipster
It’s like you’re screaming but no one can hear
On the App Store removal of AirPlay apps
The author of AirFloat on its App Store removal: I realized that this would never make it to the App Store. Even though it would be 100% within the App Store Guidelines – given this was a reimplementation – Apple posible wouldn’t approve it due to the usage of the AirPort Express’ private key. But …