Adobe is proposing a new digital camera RAW format which would be a generic, cross-vendor solution. I’m sure dcraw will pick this up quickly. Only time will tell if vendors actually do, however. In concept (at least), having a common format would be awesome.
Update: Adobe’s page on DNG has lots of great [...]
Based on Kevin Gerich’s forms work (and others), I have put together something that makes unstyled HTML forms look like Industrial widgets.
Firefox forms, mostly like Industrial
At the moment, this doesn’t work with everything, things aren’t pixel perfect, and it is a kludge — but it does mostly work.
Steps to test it out (for the [...]
I need to take the time and make one of those little floating hackergotchi heads one can find on so many sites (Planet GNOME, specifically).
Update: Uh-oh… I’m on jdub’s list.
For the past several weeks (off and on), I have been working on making Firefox fit in with GNOME (and more specifically Industrial) a good deal better by making a custom theme for the browser.
Firefox’s main window
There’s a lot more in the theme than just simply changing icons — I have fixed the look [...]
Tuomas has some really nice mockups of a little notification baloon on his website. Today, he is suggesting that rich content via HTML is the way to go. I agree. Those things look awesome.
Using HTML for the content would lower the bar and allow for a great uptake among both developers [...]
Havoc Pennington recently wrote a post and Marc Maurer replied. The topic? How volume control is quite brain-damaged at the moment.
Fig 1. Over-engineered mixer
I was actually thinking the same thing last week during two specific instances:
# I tried to watch some stream through RealPlayer and noticed that the sound was very soft with [...]
Robert got a 20D (after Miguel bought one) and he brought it by my desk yesterday so that I could play a bit with his new camera. It’s really nice, and I would really like to upgrade to the new model (especially after playing around with the thing), but I really think I will [...]