After
Daisy mentioned
Ghostzilla yesterday I downloaded a copy straight away. This is a neat way of browsing
sneakily - not something I really need to do - but I'm impressed with the way it does it none the less.
The browser runs quitely in the background while you get on with your work. As soon as you want to do some browsing you make a mouse gesture - moving the pointer from the very edge of the screen and back again - and up pops Ghostzilla. Not as a new application though - it appears in a space within the application you already have open. So for example if you had Outlook open it might appear in the inbox list.
Nice. Also it renders in soft monochrome so it doesn't stand out - and pictures only appear (in B&W) when you hover over them.
To top it all off the browser disappears as soon as you move your mouse out of it - returning you to stealth mode. At this point the other developers at work and I were very very impressed. Even if you don't have a need for this much secrecy it's worth using just to see it in action.
There's more though. If you buy the CD version rather than using the free download it doesn't even install (other than a few encrypted config files) it runs off of the CD so no-one will even be able to see you were using it when you leave your PC (as long as you remember to take the CD with you!).
Quoting myself on the topic of Ghostzilla yesterday - "this is the best thing since sliced cheese" - I was a bit drunk so forgive an element of nonsense but this really is an awsome piece of software to see in action.
I've found this great text editor for code development. It has loads of highlighting stylesheets but most importantly for me it handles CSS, JavaScript and HTML very well, although I haven't managed to find one for ASP. It's also free which is a great bonus. I've tried a few editors like this but this is the first one I've found that supports so many programming languages for free.
Update: Tell a lie there is a highlighter for ASP but having using ConTEXT for a few days now I've found that the JavaScript highlighter is actually much better for ASP than the ASP specific one. At least it is if you use server side JavaScript like me - I haven't tried it out with VBScript yet (and I'm not likely to). You still get that server side vrs. client side JavaScript confusion but if you code this way you're probably over that anyway (I am finally-ish).
What to do with all those snaps from your new camera enabled mobile phone? None of your friends have upgraded their phone yet so you have no-one to send them to. Well fear no more -
PhoneBin gives you the chance to share those moby-pics with the world at large (NB. Not safe for work/kids/people of a nervous disposition - evidently early adopters are total exhibitionists).
Reality gets one step closer to science fiction with the AirSho - "
Hitachi's new AirSho imaging system projects dynamic pictures onto nearly invisible glass surfaces, such as a storefront window". I'm really holding on for Minority Report style 3D projection technology though [
via gizmodo].
Catproof your computer with
PawSense - I await a report from
Daisy on whether this is dog compatible [
via op-pop].
A neat follow on to the
Little Goth Girl post from yesterday - a guide on how to
dance gothic. Personally though I'm now of an age where I prefer a
nice cup of tea and a sit down.
"Little Goth Girl and the Space Hopper" @
Matazone
Star Wars on space hoppers! The first of two space hopper links today...
The series of
driver films by BMW is my favourite example of viral advertising. I've seen many arguments against advertising in this way but I personally don't see the harm if it means great entertainment like this gets around for all the see. There is some great independent work out there but production and hosting costs are very limiting factors which commercial money can help with. I especially don't see the harm when I know that it doesn't matter how influencial the work I just can't afford a BMW 5 series ;o) Anyway
Who Killed the Idea? is the latest BMW film and it's a departure from the
driver series - it's much more tongue in cheek and stars the awsome Harvey Keitel. One bizarre thing though - due to copyright reasons you aren't allowed to watch the film if you are in North America. How do they know and how do they enforce this?
A catalogue of less fortunate weblogs...cross fingers neither
me nor my
f r i e n d s will ever be listed (alas poor
wastrel).
After enjoying
Strong Bad going completely CGN* the other week - in
this post - Heather over at
leekovision got in touch to see if I knew where the word "
leeko" came from. I was none the wiser as my favourite source of Strong Bad news -
The Coolest Stuff Ever - seems to have disappeared without a trace. I'd like to think though that Strong Bad got the word from
leeko themselves who are causing a certain amount of rocking out at
lazylaces towers at the moment especially with the
Bracelet Song (~9Mb) my favourite web video of the moment [*
CGN : Crazy Go Nuts].
