Super Ginormous

Month: May 2007

  • The Facebook Platform

    FacebookThe Facebook Platform is going to revolutionize social networks. Where MySpace is tightening restrictions on users and the applications they can use, Facebook is opening themselves up for use with all sorts of applications. This can’t be good news for any of the social networks that are similar to the MySpace model, and yeah I’m talking ’bout Virb as well.

    Your Facebook profile is now a hub for all of your online data. With Applications, you can pull in your latest diggs, bookmarks, and much, much more. In fact, I believe they’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the capabilities of Facebook Applications. It’s only going to be a matter of time before users start doing everything through the site. (That in and of itself is a scary thought.) For Facebook, it’s definitely a win. The more people that see and use the site, the more revenue they make off of advertising and user data… For application builders, it’s a win as well…

    Are you on Facebook? Let’s network.

  • Firefox just topped 25%

    Firefox just topped 25%. Can I get an amen?

  • 10th Wonder Podcast

    The latest 10th Wonder Podcast now available. You can grab it here.

  • Add IAB Ad Sizes to Photoshop CS3 Defaults

    1. Go to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Required
    2. Open: Default New Doc Sizes.txt
    3. Add the following somewhere in the file:You can also do this in CS3. A few IAB ad sizes are actually included by default:
      ; Interactive Marketing Unit (IMU) ad formats, defined by the
; Interactive Advertising Bureau, <http://www.iab.net/>

"Medium Rectangle, 300 x 250"	300	 250	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Rectangle, 180 x 50"		180	  50	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Leaderboard, 728 x 90"		728	  90	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Wide Skyscraper, 160 x 600"	160	 600	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0

      You can replace those entries with this to get all of the default IAB ad sizes into Photoshop CS3:

      ; Interactive Marketing Unit (IMU) ad formats, defined by the
; Interactive Advertising Bureau, <http://www.iab.net/>

"Button 1, 120 x 90"		120	  90	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Button 2, 120 x 60"		120	  60	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Full Banner, 468 x 68"		468	  68	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Half Banner, 234 x 60"		234	  60	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Half Page Ad, 300 x 600"	300	 600	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Large Rectangle, 336 x 280"	336	 280	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Leaderboard, 728 x 90"		28	  90	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Medium Rectangle, 300 x 250"	300	 250	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Micro Bar, 88 x 31"		88	  31	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Rectangle, 180 x 150"		180	 150	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Skyscraper, 120 x 600"		120	 600	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Square Button, 125 x 125"	125	 125	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Square Pop-Up, 250 x 250"	250	 250	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Vertical Banner, 120 x 240"	120	 240	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Vertical Rectangle, 240 x 400"	240	 400	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
"Wide Skyscraper, 160 x 600"	160	 600	pixels	screen dpi RGB 8 1.0
    4. Restart Photoshop CS3.
    5. The new IAB ad sizes will be available when you create a new document, and choose the Web preset.

  • Star Wars Stamps Now Available

    Star Wars Stamps Now Available. Use the Force. Buy some stamps. Voting on the single stamps is down to either Yoda or Darth Vader. Considering Star Wars was all about the rise and inevitable fall of Vader, I hope that he ends up being the winning stamp. I’d love to be able to put Vader stamps on everything :)

  • Vote for the Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites

    Vote for the Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites. I really wish that Blinksale and Basecamp hadn’t been in the same category :\

  • Hank Aaron is the man

    Hank Aaron is the man. Seriously. Who cares about Barry Bonds and whether or not he’s going to beat his home run record? I certainly don’t. Maybe, just maybe, if Bonds wasn’t such a douche and there wasn’t any controversy surrounding his use of steroids, people would care.

  • The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    The Sarah Connor Chronicles. This might be a halfway decent show to look forward to in ’08.

  • Intermittent

    The site’s been really wonky today due to some problems on the Grid at MediaTemple. I hope they get the issues worked out soon. This is third time the site’s gone offline in a week. It’s starting to get ridiculous.

    UPDATE: According to MediaTemple, the interruption was widespread and affected all of its Grid customers. They’re saying that the culprit was a DDoS attack on the system…

    Network interruption resolved

    Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    This afternoon (mt) Media Temple engineers successfully mitigated a fairly sophisticated network attack aimed at several of our services. This distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack appears to have originated from China and other sources along the western Pacific rim.

    We have upgraded our load balancing system and made various other network configuration changes to prevent disruptions like this in the future. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your patience.

  • iTrip Pocket

    iTrip Pocket. For the nano and 4th and 5th gen iPods. Will probably need to pick one up for Kim’s Product(RED) iPod nano.