Real-Time 2K Playback for Film and HD Content: Frame Thrower at SIGGRAPH

Those of you working in the film industry, or any industry leveraging real-time playback of high-resolution imaging, ought to stop-by Digital Ordnance's booth at SIGGRAPH San Diego. It should be fairly easy to find ... look for the tallest guy on the floor, manning the smallest booth, with the biggest crowd of on-lookers.

While i won't make it this year, as beyond personal interests, this isn't technically "my industry", it's always nice to see Daryll show-off their network-attached real-time 2k playback system: The Frame Thrower. It's amazing to watch stock footage unfold on a big monitor while being able to use a simple jog shuttle to granularly control playback speed, zoom-in on any portion of the image, apply a rich selection of "on-the-fly" color corrections and effects ... during playback . I hear directors and editors eat this up.

Daryll's company has grown into a well-established player in the digital intermediate industry with a loyal and growing customer-base that swears by their products, shaking pre-established moguls at their core, as industry professionals realize they shouldn't have to fight their digital intermediate tools.

Wikicars Turns 1

One year and almost 4,000 modified, solidified and beautified pages later, Wikicars is celebrating its first birthday! Congratulations to the World-Wide Automotive Enthusiasts for reaching a great milestone!

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New version 1.2 of InputDraw! Draw Widget that integrates with your forms.

Has new features: background image, grid, plain editor, transparency, background color, etc..Still is cross browser, easy and quick and uses SVG standard

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AJAX Web 2.0 Used Cars Search

123 days ago, CarsDirect.com released the first ever Web 2.0 Used Cars Search. It's fast and AJAXy, and can ultimately save you some money so give it a whirl!

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The Immediate Media Age: Of Broadband & Blogs

Our whole lives are about doing more in less time, trying to cram everything into 24 hours, in a day that is filled with constant interruptions. Instant messages, emails, and the constant chirping of cell phones have surely and slowly squeezed our attention spans. We have responded to this by customizing the digital world according to our lifestyles.

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Props to Facebook

It turns out that there is technology talent that works outside of Google. Facebook is a shining example.

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Jelsoft Acquired by Internet Brands, Inc.

Jelsoft Enterprises, the company behind the vBulletin Forum software, announced today that they have been acquired by Internet Brands, Inc, a "leading provider of automotive, travel and home-related sites and communities." The acquisition gives Jelsoft more resources to continue the development and expansion of their vBulletin product.

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$10,000 to anyone who creates an Open Source .Mac Replacement Service

To win it, you will need to come up with "a free replacement to dotMac's client-based services that's easy enough for a first-time Mac user to install and so fully and transparently integrated that a long-time dotMac user wouldn't notice the difference."

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Google Apps to Launch Mail Migration

Google will be adding mail migration to Google Apps this week, along with some new features for Google Apps.This is being promoted as especially helpful for organizations looking to better organize their emails, and migrating them to Google Apps is a great way to start. Mail will be migrated to a user’s GMail account, organized into...

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iPhone: Apple's VoIP End-Game

Picture unlimited free calls over WiFi/IP without even having to "think about it", by simply picking a Person from your Address Book, and hitting "call" ... The same way you'd make a Normal Phone Call. All this powered behind-the-scenes by an outstandingly executed convergence of enabling technologies and open-protocols.



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10 Lessons from the Criminal Trial of exBrocade CEO

Ex-Brocade CEO Greg Reyes helped found the storage area network company in 1995, and coached it into one of the dotcom-era’s highest fliers by 2000. Now Reyes is being prosecuted for an alleged conspiracy. His trial has a lot of lessons for start-up founders.



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Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk, 250 standby

In a press release today, Apple has revealed a number of significant upgrades to both the iPhone's battery life and touch screen.



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Interesting Read.

iPhone JavaScript Interface with Digg API

In lieu of an iPhone SDK, we can emulate the interface with JavaScript... this is my one-night proof of concept. If its popular, I'll develop the interface into a class or template. It works best in Safari, of course. Source code is available for download.



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Ferrari Enzo: 0-62.5mph in 3.2 seconds

The Enzo's V12 engine is the first of a new generation for Ferrari. It is based on the architecture of the V8 found in sister-company Maserati's Quattroporte, using the same basic architecture and 104 mm bore spacing.



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5 ways iPhone will change the wireless biz

5 ways Apple's iPhone will challenge some of the conventional notions of the wireless business, take the hidebound industry by the scruff of the neck and give it a good shake.



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favoracious - help your site visitors save to social bookmarking sites.

With a few lines of code, web site owners can help their users easily save pages to a variety of Online Bookmark Services. Open Source. Subtle and easy to use out-of-the-box, highly customizable, and standards-compliant, Favoricious Bookmarks aims to become a powerful addition to a WebMaster's Toolbox.



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Astro Battle - Great Online Multiplayer Strategic Shooter

I came across this great review of my good friend Scott's Astro Battle.

Well worth a read!

Astro Battle is implemented in Java, but some advanced features it uses make it buggy to run on OS X for now. Scott's working on it, he just told me on IM:

A Mac version will probably be available this month.

Dude, you're on record now, you'd better deliver :)

I know for a fact that Scott's been working his @ss off on this game, driving him to edge of his sanity, pushing the limits of Software Engineering. Being a one-man shop and spending most of his energy on engineering efforts, the fact that he's managed to build a community of 18,000 users is a testament to the quality of the ecosystem he's built. It's great that he's getting noticed by industry writers.

Steve Jobs 2.0: kinder, gentler, funnier

Steve Jobs whose unrelenting quest for perfection has driven many to Ole Tennessee or an asylum (whichever is closer) is showing signs of a kinder, gentler self, happy to share (within limits) the glory, and espousing the virtues of team work.



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Brandy, Dad

Brandy, Dad
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The Wedding pics are finally all up on flickr, in 3 separate sets: 1, 2, 3

The Ninja Slams Pirates 2 and 3

The Ninja just destroys these movies. Hilarious. Be sure to watch the special message at the end to Bob Iger, President of Disney.



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IBDOM is out!

IBDOM: The Library
Introductory post
Ajaxian Coverage

Interview with Founders of Webby-Award-Winning Wikitravel

On the heels of Wikitravel's Webby Award, founders Evan and Michele took the time to share with us the personal, human and technological adventures they continue to share with "Fifty thousand of their closest friends!". Learn about the passion, focus and relentless dedication it took to launch and nurture a community of Wikitravelers.



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For Mac users Joost Is Error-Prone

Joost seems to have problems on Intel-based Macs. Many contributing to an enormous Joost forum thread under the header “I can’t get the application to run. What do I do?” We don’t see much in the way of useful responses from Joost.



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Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

Kevin Rose, digg founder, decides to go down with the ship :o



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iPhone Shopping Widget

i can't help but think This Shopping Widget would be a great addition to the widgets that ship with the iPhone. Though, the form factor could use some rework, the right-sliding drawer be moved to a bottom-sliding position, or overlay the listings, or be removed.

The idea of course is to be able to do some basic comparison shopping from the iPhone, in a snappy, uncluttered interface giving users access to 3 online marketplaces: eBay, Shopping.com and Amazon.com.

Also: Shop for an iPhone when it comes out.

Mac OS X Leopard Delayed to meet iPhone Targets

Apple shifted developers from leopard to the iPhone team. The result: Leopard delayed to October, and the iPhone in late June.



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Cryptic message for all 2001 Space odyssey fans

somebody is installing cryptic tiles in heavily trafficked roads. No one knows who, how, or why.



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Your resume might be hurting your chances of getting an interview.

The Acronym Soup Phenomenon (ASP) is what many techies fall victim to when putting together their resumes. An engineering manager of a Southern California Internet company explains why listing any and all technologies and programming languages that you've ever come in contact with could be hurting your chances of getting an interview.



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New Beginnings

This last year's been a wild ride.

Got Engaged.
Turned 30.
Hired Architect with Brandy.
Mom got cancer.
Mom beat cancer.
Left EarthLink. Joined Internet Brands.
Dad got married.
We got married! \o/
Honeymooned. Got PADI-certified for open-water scuba diving.

... and this week Dave Watson will be presenting his (hopefully) final working drawings to the City of Hermosa Beach, while the Coastal Commission is doing its thing. We'll also be giving working drawings to 3 contractors bidding our project. We're applying for a construction loan. Then we'll have to find a place to live for about a year.

If all goes according to plan, we're looking at a big tear-down party early June or late May.

In the midst of all this and increasing workaholism, i've visibly not kept-up with any sort of sustained blogging. What little I've posted has often been about "work stuff". I'm also no-longer contributing to TheAppleBlog.

While EarthLink wasn't quite ready to let just about any employee ramble about apps they build, we just created a couple of new semi-sanctioned blogs at The New Gig, thru which i'll likely be channeling the geekier stuff, hoping to be joined by a few of my peers:

Internet Brands Developer blog: Typically about developing applications, technologies, and developers.

The aptly-named "CarsDirect Used Car Site Blog" seeks to get some feedback about our newly-redesigned used cars marketplace.

We'll see what 2007 has in store ... Married Life, New Home?, Kids? Diving! Work! While I was busting my hump at EarthLink, it was, I feel, a mere warm-up to what i've experienced and will gleefully endure at Internet Brands.

And then there's this thing.