That’s right, I am going to Florida this fall (next week) for some family related stuff and then again a week later for a vacation. You would think I dislike the weather up here in Boston or something. 
I am basically blogging about it in case you intend to conduct business or ask me a question in the next few weeks. At this point based on my schedule and the holidays I am guessing I will be unavailable until the first of the year, or very late December at the earliest.
Have a Happy Holiday with your friends and family!
Oh, and do you have a techy (geek) on your Christmas list? Why not pick up a copy of the Flash and PHP Bible, written by yours truly Link to the right of this post.
Amazon just made researching toys a whole lot more fun this Holiday season. They have introduced an interactive toy grid, the Holiday Toy List, where you can navigate around and watch hundreds of videos. You can also sort the list by age or price and quickly jump around to pick the right gift for anyone on your list.
The geek factor here is also pretty high too because this whole “toy wall” is built using Flash and Flash video.
Here is the link once again and a screenshot:
Update: Link fixed. There was a missing character in the docId.
As you probably know, MySpace is probably the last social network to be recommended as a “good idea” with so many bands and ads and slow servers.. and the list goes on. Well now with “Profile 2.0″ they have even made privacy a second priority. Don’t believe me? Look at your profile (if its set to private) while not logged in and you should see a message similar to the following:
Now update your profile to a 2.0 (”newer/better” edition) and then log out. Check the site once again. What do you see? Your now public profile! How this was overlooked at a company the size of MySpace boggles my mind, but whats funnier is they actually talk about it in the release like its a feature.
You may be asking yourself why I decided to investigate this? I clicked on a friends friend link on the top friends list and could see a profile that I knew should be private.. and I know she has recently updated to 2.0, as did I. So, I loaded up my page and voila, it was public. Now I have nothing to hide really, no deep secrets or gossip or anything of the sort. I actually lock my profile becuase I publish contact information for friends and family and don’t need IT Integrated Solutions getting even more ways to contact me.
I hope this is read by more people quickly as I am pretty sure people take security seriously, and this is a great example of a company basically putting it on the back burner.
Mike Chambers has posted some very interesting information about Growl notification support over on his blog. This basically means that with the help of the Growl team, they have created a way for AIR applications to display messages via Growl, without Java or other external apps installed on the users system.
Update: It seems there is also a project for Windows notifications. Maybe this will be added to AIR soon as well.
