Jun 25

Dear Internet Explorer users ;-)

32 comments 2005 at 06.48 am posted by Veerle Pieters

Here is just a short announcement that you, Internet Explorer users, can now scale the text of my blog. Well, since I reckon your patience has been tested long enough, I thought I owe you one.

Not sure but it could be that my stubbornness of using px for my fonts in the CSS stylesheet had a bit of influence to a lot of I.E. users that decided to switch to a smarter browser :-) These stats are not really surprising to me (anymore), but maybe to the 32% I.E. users reading my blog (from the past 2 months, on an avarge of 40 to 42 thousand unique visitors).

Mozilla (Gecko) 50%, I.E. 32,6% (vs 6.x 31.1% - vs 5.x 1.5%), Safari 13.1%, Opera 2.3%, Netscape 0.6%, Camino 0.3%, Mozilla 0.1%

Needless to say that the nature of this site is the main reason why I.E. is losing such a big share of the cake.

Anyway I hope this is an improvement and that I made some of you happy.

May 12

Real world test of H.264 vs Sorenson 3

5 comments 2005 at 06.22 am posted by Veerle Pieters

Here at Duoh! we have been using the Sorenson Video 3 Pro Codec for a long time. We had great results with it and it’s probably one of the best codecs on Mac. That was until H.264 came on to the scene. We haven’t got time to play around with it. Fortunately for us, Jeff Harrell did.

The end score is same file size but dramatically different results. If you’re into video this a good read and leaves us with a pleasant feeling that great things will be possible thanks to this new H.264 codec. Eagerly waiting for Apple to ship the new Final Cut Studio ;-)

May 07

A game for the weekend

13 comments 2005 at 04.17 am posted by Veerle Pieters

There has past some time since I last linked to one of those Yeti games. The last one was part 5. I skipped a few versions because I found them not cool enough to link to. Now they are at part 8 called Jungle Swing. Your Yeti must play Tarzan in the Brazilian jungle and swing from branch to branch.

It’s actually pretty difficult, at least for me :-) The ideal time waster for the weekend if you’re not working that is ;-)

Apr 23

Internet Explorer 7 a few details….

11 comments 2005 at 02.26 am posted by Veerle Pieters

Dave Hyatt is hard at work to get Safari through the Acid2 test. It is great that Apple understands the importance of these things. On to the topic of today and that’s Internet Explorer 7.

Feb 11

An emotional 3D tale

7 comments 2005 at 04.52 am posted by Veerle Pieters

Something that I lost track of recently re-surfaced and by watching it again I remembered this emotional and beautiful tale so vividly. It’s a short movie about a troubled young woman that finds an unexpected surprise. The beauty of this masterpiece is that there aren’t any real actors in it since everything is in 3D. The short film is called “This wonderful life”.

This wonderful life
3D is not my cup of tea but it features some of the most advanced and complex facial expressions I’ve seen in a non commercial film. Both technically and artistically an amazing job. The short film was made by Liam Kemp and took 23 months to finish. Maybe you did already know about this but if not I highly recommend watching it, pretty sure it will be the best part of your day.

PS: have a Kleenex nearby ;-)

Dec 15

Imago… developed by two Belgian Mac users

4 comments 2004 at 03.59 am posted by Veerle Pieters

Since the topic of this week seems to be cataloging, this new solution for photographers will fit in nicely. The fact that the solution is developed by two Belgian guys is a nice bonus, and no I am not getting paid to plug it here ;-)

Dec 09

Thunderbird’s Extreme Mac-over

4 comments 2004 at 04.37 am posted by Veerle Pieters

If you’ve ever tried to create good-looking icons then you probably know that some icons can be a real pain, especially getting the message(purpose) across can be difficult. My motto is a program has to look good or otherwise I will loose interest in it even when it has amazing useful features.

Nov 12

Parking…. battle of the sexes

17 comments 2004 at 08.12 am posted by Veerle Pieters

I think it’s time again for some fun. How about a game? This “parking” game is one to try. In real life I admit that parking isn’t one of my strongest qualities.

Oct 29

Nasty evil thing…

19 comments 2004 at 08.17 am posted by Veerle Pieters

Boy do I hate comment spammers, they make life miserable! :-( Right now my blog is under attack and I loose lots of time in research to find the bastard to block him permanently. He’s using spoofed IP addresses and this makes it extra nasty to find who is doing this. A Google search brought me to the conclusion that I’m not the only one right now who is suffering from the same comment’s spammer.

Oct 11

Security, the reality…. the facts

8 comments 2004 at 08.51 am posted by Veerle Pieters

As promised we’re back with the second part of our security post. A big thanks to Kenneth for providing the background info and tips.

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