TechnoMagicians Blog

Interesting post by Peter Bromberg: I've taken a more than cursory interest in the whole Remote Scripting (.NET species) vs. AJAX and now ATLAS discussion, mostly because I started using Remote Scripting since Microsoft first released it, and because I continued to refine it after seeing Brent Ashley's excellent work with JSRS, which was one […]

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As per usual with an incident like this there are many conflicting reports. Eye witness accounts of the plane hitting the ground very hard on the first touch down to eye witnesses saying that the initial landing was very normal and people were actually clapping until a few seconds later when the plane was shaking violently […]

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Yet another BlogChat type thing. We were actually in discussions years ago with a few Drupal type services to integrate BlogChat. I guess it took a few years for people to realize how useful a tool like this could be. I have just made a checkin into the contributions repo of an ajax enabled chat […]

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Interesting view from US reporter visiting Toronto recently: I felt in some strange way that I was leaving the kind of place that, at least in spirit, the U.S. had been in another time — prior to colour-coded alerts, scenes of towers crumbling, midnight anti-terror laws and everywhere the pervasive selling of fear and vigilance. […]

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Interesting little device that I can see taking off with kids as Linux Devices points out: Aeronix used Linux to build a $99 instant messenger appliance aimed at keeping kids from tying up the family PC while chatting with friends. Naturally, hackers soon appropriated the device for other duties, such as remotely controlling/monitoring Sony's Aibo […]

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I wrote about Linksys and their declining customer service in the past but this time its about their anti-competitive practices. Just recently I purchased a Linksys PAP2 VoIP adapter thinking I could use it to connect to my VoIP provider. It does say on the box that it is a Vonage start-up kit but nowhere […]

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Well, here we go again. I was beginning to wonder why traffic to koSmo.com was larger than normal for people looking for koZmo.com. Just when I was going to remove references to KoZmo from the website as well. A google search for koZmo and koSmo show 609 results. Doesn't surprise me. Look at how many […]

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Visual Thesaurus looks interesting:

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I thought I would put together an example using Ajaxian techniques, JSRS and Google Maps. Click here to go see the example. Quoted from that page: This is just a prototype example using Ajaxian techniques, JSRS (Javascript Remote Scripting), and Google Maps to show how one could display network monitoring updates in real-time. I started […]

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Erik is right on the money here: VoIP Magazine writer Bryan Richard has a lot to say about Skype. I happen to think Skype is a good thing for VoIP in general as it increases awareness and brings more attention to the softphone. I also firmly beleive that Skype will either adopt SIP [by partnership […]

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