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  • Simulating Two-Finger Scrolling in Linux

    Ubuntu (and possibly your Linux distribution) comes with support for notebook/netbook touchpads. If you are a laptop person, you probably have a love/hate relationship with your touchpad or trackpad. You might love finger-tapping to simulate your button-pressing, or you might hate it. Similarly, two-finger scrolling is something I have come to love, but others out […]

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    Tavis J

  • Netflix Looking to Hire HTML5 Expert

    I was doing a Google search for HTML 5 video, and an ad came up for Netflix jobs.  I hardly ever click on ads, but I was curious to see what the connection was.  Sure enough, Netflix has a job opening for: Senior Software Engineer – HTML5 Video Standards One would assume that means Netflix […]

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    Tavis J

  • Cloud Compromise: Online Software, Local Data

    While some people are singing the praises of “the cloud”, and any business executive can sound cool if he says, “Yeah, we’re moving to the cloud”, the truth is: “the cloud” may not be as wonderful as people would have you think. Where is this cloud anyway?  Do you even know what “the cloud” is? […]

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    Tavis J

  • Will Charging Readers for Access Save Newspapers?

    If TavisOnline.com started charging readers to view content on this site, would any of you loyal readers still visit?  Many readers would likely just move on to another free news source.  That reality raises another question.  If a major newspaper such as the New York times decided to charge readers for online content, would their […]

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    AT&T Bandwidth Caps Will Ruin the Internet

    I recently switched from AT&T to Comcast because the former was cheaping out on DSL customers, trying to nudge them toward U-Verse, an alternative that is faster, but more expensive, requiring you to sign up for at least TV service (if not also phone service as well). I was pleased when I found my new […]

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    Tavis J

  • Is H.264 Really Like English?

    Since Google announced that it is dropping the H.264 codec from its browser, we have seen just about every possible reaction, from praise to contempt.  None, however, were more amusing than Microsoft’s response, which likened Google’s abandoning H.264 to a country abandoning the English language.

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    Tavis J

  • Easy Rounded Corners with CSS3

    One of the common features of web design in the 1990s were boxes with rounded corners floating over beautifully designed backgrounds.  The sites looked nice, but you had to use some trickery to get the look you wanted. Rounded edges on anything required images, usually held in place by table cells. Well, folks, we are […]

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    Honeycomb, Google’s New Android for Tablets

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPUGNCIozp0 Those hardware manufacturers who rushed to push out Android-based tablets should have just waited.  At CES this week, Google unveiled Honeycomb, their latest Android version that is particularly designed for devices “with large screens”, and by large, they mean tablet size.

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    My Boxee Home Media Center

    Currently, I do not actually have a home media center, so that title might be a little confusing. I have an old HTPC that is so ancient, it cannot even handle Boxee (which actually has pretty low system requirements). I also don’t have the money to run out and get a Boxee box or upgrade […]

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    Tavis J