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I had checked out the version of Novell’s moonlight linked through Microsoft from CTV’s site, in order to try to get some Olympic coverage on my PC. I obviously did not look hard enough. I stumbled upon the pre-release version just in time for the Super Sunday gold medal rematch series!

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx

Grab it from [...]

There is now a Ubuntu packaged 64bit version of Flash. This is something that any user running Ubuntu Linux on current hardware (P4/Athlon64 or newer) should be pleased to hear (just skip on over this post if you are running a 32bit OS on your 64bit hardware).

For quite some time there have been manual [...]

Nearly a week into the Olympics, CTV unveiled their Olympic widget. The widget is put together by ClearSpring and can be embedded just about anywhere easily, including any Wordpress-based blog.

Check out the left pane of http://www.theupsons.net for a peek at what the finished product looks like.

The process is automated if you [...]

Looks like embedding 3GP video from the Wordpress Blackberry application (or any other source) is fairly trivial once you have completed a few configuration steps. One option is to modify the supported MIME types right in the code. Rather than change code I prefer to stay within the boundaries of the administration panels to [...]

Some registered users may have received email notifications with a new temporary password. This is because until just a few minutes ago, many emails from this site were being blocked by our upstream ISP (Rogers) due to some issues with the headers in those emails. Likely this has prevented many users [...]

In anticipation of the big Superbowl XLIV game this Sunday, there is a lot of banter in the social channels. It might not be an original idea, but I found this DC vs Marvel mock match-up hilarious. Although I seem to be familiar with more of the DC team players thanks to childhood cartoons, [...]

At the January Toronto Product Manager Association meeting I had an opportunity to listen to Alfred Tan, a Senior Director in Sales at Facebook, lead a discussion on Marketing in Social Media. I was a great presentation; Delivered on a Mac using a Rogers Rocket Stick, it had lots of really interesting slides and [...]