The Infamous 2009 LimeWire Pizza Fiasco
July 1, 2009 - the day the music wars started in earnest. Last night the guys from Dovecote Records, a small music label based in New York, were hanging out at their local bar. Employees from file sharing startup LimeWire showed up to have a party. There was confusion over the ownership of some pizza, and a riot almost ensued. From the Dovecote ...
AT&T Internal Memo Cites Multiple Company Records Broken On Launch Day
An internal memo from AT&T has been intercepted by MacDailyNews saying that the week that the iPhone 3GS launched, several company records were broken. Interestingly, one of the more unexpected records broken in the memo had nothing to do with the iPhone, and everything to do with the late Prince of Pop, Michael Jackson. You can check out ...
YouTube Increases File Size Limit To 2GB, Now Allows Direct HD Embeds And Links
While not every tweak to YouTube’s system deserves a post, this one is pretty significant, though very straightforward as well. First, the 1GB file limit for YouTube videos has been doubled to 2GB; this is a boon to many users who have been uploading high definition content more than a few minutes long. Ten minutes of 1080p footage can ea...
Hyperfocal Distance - Photographer’s Friend
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Maybe. However, in photography of the digital kind, there’s an equivalent function that, used properly, can be of enormous help in capturing subjects with degrees of sharpness that may surprise the less informed photographer. For some unknown reason you won’t find much about hyperfocal distance in ...
Now that everyone’s finally understanding the benefits of using theme frameworks and the like, I’m noticing a lot more hooks in themes: theme_before_location(); theme_location(); theme_after_location(); Where location is the location of that particular hook (e.g. header, footer, loop). Now that’s great and all, but here’s...