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Comment on Hark the Sound: A Sound Game for Kids by Edie Comeaux

Edie Comeaux — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:06:53 +0000

I am looking for software, or a website that I can use to teach deaf/blind indivduals to identify enviromental sounds. If you are aware any please send me links.

Comment on Fixing Firefox Flash Foolishness by gb

gb — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:47:42 +0000

Sorry, I can’t help you on that.

Comment on Fixing Firefox Flash Foolishness by anshuman

anshuman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:49:24 +0000

my problem :

in explorer i can bring drop down menus created in js over the flash, but in firefox the dropdown created in js is coming behind the flash.How can i solve this problem, for explorer i used . Can you please suggest me what will be script for firefox to fix my proble ????

regards,

anshuman

Comment on Crawl Space Humidity by Mike Marcu

Mike Marcu — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:42:13 +0000

Another coment: therefore an open water surface is evaporating at a level of 1 mm per day.
But a soil in genetral at a level of 0.1 mm equivalent vapors per day. I did some experiemnts with some glasses with sand and water and i timed the total evaporation of the water I put in those glasses.
But these vapors are a gas- is like air or anything elese- definiteloy is going up because the air is 1.25-1.3 kg/cubic m and the water vapor is 0.8 kg/cubic m therefore will tend to go up

Comment on Crawl Space Humidity by Mike Marcu

Mike Marcu — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:37:43 +0000

Is October 2009 and I did nothing yet there but I ‘ll do it definitely.

Therefore , the vapors are in fact a gas having the density of about 0.8 kg/cubic meter-and goes up through the cracks.

It is interesting to note that the water is evaporating but for example the Calcium Chloride is not.I had a glass with water in the basemement and evaporates freely about 1 mm per day but the calcium chloride liquid never evaporates-stayed at the same level for over a year.
Also I checked that 77% RH and about 20 C is a dry environemment without condensation in a closed insulated space- therefore in my case I had bubble wrap on the soil so the soil is insulated.

I hope immediately I finish the order in the garage
I’ll be able to do the opening trap and the servo dehumidifier I mentioned before and inspect what is in the crawl space.
All the best
Mike

Comment on How far should I drive to save on gas? by Save Money on Gas

Save Money on Gas — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:48:55 +0000

Great post. That actually helps with how far out of the way to drive!

Comment on Why I don’t develop for the iPhone/iPod Touch by gb

gb — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:58:45 +0000

I understand what you are saying but I disagree.

The risk is months of development time wasted. You say they’ll approve any non-controversial app but folks who have gotten rejected would disagree. And when you get rejected, you get NO FEEDBACK on why. My guess is the Google Voice guys didn’t think their app was controversial.

If Apple makes some deal with a company for exclusivity in some app space (like they clearly have already) and your app touches that space, sorry, you’re out. With no explanation.

Suppose Microsoft decided to control the “quality of the content” as you say on Windows?. I’m sure they can deliver the highest quality apps in the world (in their opinion) so they’d “serve us” best by only giving us Microsoft apps.

I don’t buy that an opaque approval process is good for the market.

As to protecting us from “crappy low grade stuff”. How many high-quality “pull my finger” apps do we need?

Comment on Why I don’t develop for the iPhone/iPod Touch by iphone application programming

iphone application programming — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:48:31 +0000

I dont quite agree fully. There is a risk in everything in life… and the risk here is very minimal. If you stick by making a non-controversial app (eg. no political content / agenda, no gambling etc) then there is a LOT more potential in succeeding and its defintely worth the minimal risk … and so are 75,000 other apps out there saying the same. Apple is not a Youtube like site – and every app is monitored. Its NOT a “free and frictionless web2.0 content / social media economy” ..if you get what i am saying. you can upload any video or content onto social media sites and if it controversial the community will flag it or the content owner will send a note to the youtube folks.. but until then its regarded as 100% legit. there-in lies the problem. (a) apple would not want to get into lawsuits (b) they want to control the quality of the content – because if crappy low grade stuff gets through …then the value of their created system skyrockets down (remember commodore?). So, its in the best interest of everyone that things are monitored and checked – and i believe its a small price we developers are paying in return for a great distribution platform – where a small indie can challenge the big boys like EA and stand side by side with them in the app store… avoiding the whole mobile publishing route that was so controlled by big-deals with thousands of wireless carrier across the world … giving the indie no chance at all. This innovation is changing the market dynamics… i know because i come from this background for the past 6 years we’ve been making games and mobile apps… and now apple with its iphone and the appstore has totally turned theindustry upside down and ALL (yes ALL) other players are making KNOCK-OFF iPHONE hardware and interface as well as knock-off online App Stores (sideloading model)… and i mean *every* other player!! If you want to learn iphone apps and game development come stop by at EDUmobile.ORG

Comment on Combining WordPress and Flickr to make accessible books for beginning readers by Justin Wright

Justin Wright — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:03:43 +0000

Wow, that’s an awesome use for WordPress. I’ve used a Flickr to create photo albums but a book is pretty cool.

Comment on Wordpress makes a fine application framework by Alex Sysoef

Alex Sysoef — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:34:20 +0000

The only thing I would like to add here – be sure that your web apps don’t rely too much on underlying WordPress code as it is frequently updated and can render them incompatible