Getting Facebook working on a SIM means using the SIM Toolkit commands, which limits interaction to a cascade of text menus, but it does mean that any GSM handset can now access Facebook. Handsets don’t even need an internet connection as the service uses Class 2 SMS for connectivity (SMS messages sent and received by …
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Paper: Selecting good still frames from a video
In this paper, we train a computer to select still frames from video that work well as candid portraits. Because of the subjective nature of this task, we conduct a human subjects study to collect ratings of video frames across multiple videos. Then, we compute a number of features and train a model to predict …
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HTML Component Model & the Shadow DOM
At Fronteers ’11, Alex Russel gave a great talk about the Shadow DOM (relevant slides starting from slide 32). Jake Archibald, who also gave an awesome presentation at Fronteers, provides us a nice writeup on the subject, along with a very practical example: This is an <audio> element, or at least its implementation in Google …
Laika is coming!
Today, on the Plex website: Laika is coming! 10/11 Plex about to go cloud based? The countdown to November 10 has started 🙂 A Postcard → Be sure to read my blogpost in which I praise the technical structure of Plex 9 to find out why I am (and you should be) such a Plex …
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jQuery Mobile Select: jQuery Mobile Navigation Replacement Plugin
A often-used practice in Responsive Web Design is to replace the menu/navigation (<ul>) with a dropdown (<select>) on small devices, this to prevent it from taking up the whole screen. Today, my friend Jochen released a jQuery plugin that does the job for you automagically: jQuery Mobile Select is a jQuery Plugin to replace the …
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