My college, like most others across America employ a restrictive firewall and limit bandwidth for certain file transfers. YouTube in particular is severely limited on my campus making viewing virtually impossible on weekends and painfully slow any other time. Fortunately though, I learned a little more about the network setup and how they prioritize different…
Author: Jon Stacey
I Predict the Blu-Ray Disc Format Will Be the Winner
Update: I was right! We have repeated history and now have another format war much like VHS vs. Betamax, but now with digital technology instead analog. The uncertainty about which format would receive mainstream adoption has made most people avoid the move to high definition altogether until everything is sorted out. After all, to most…
WordPress TinyMCE Broken and Missing
WordPress has integrated a basic version of the TinyMCE editor with the core installation. This let’s you edit your posts visually without having to deal with the code behind making posts look nice. This is an amazing time saver if it works. Today, TinyMCE threw up it’s hands and suddenly stopped working for me. At…
Consistency and Usability
I forgot one of my other resolutions and just in the nick of time: Consistency and Usability! I’m going to try to make a post on this blog every day, but only if I have quality content. I got this tip from Jakob Nielsen’s Top 10 Design Mistakes. I highly recommend taking a look at…