Sun, 30 Jan 2005
Amazon DVD Rentals
Despite my previous bad experiences with Amazon.co.uk when it comes to
DVDs, I decided to give their new DVD rental service a go. I signed up,
clicked through a couple of very painless screens and added ten films to
my list (which I'd like programtic access to if anyones bored :)).
Firstly an oddities, they seem to class a 2 disc DVD as two separate items. Now while I could (maybe) see some point in doing this with entire seasons of TV shows that come in six DVD sets I'm not using up two of my six slots (per month) so I can ignore the extras disk.
On the upside I received the three films only two days later (in hideous Amazon packaging) so I have to say that as initial impressions go I'm mostly happy with the service.
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Posted: 2005/01/30 23:32 | /nottech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
The Yellow Fade Technique
The very slick people over at Basecamp have a very neat UI trick that highlights any changes to
the site for a couple of seconds and then fades out. This allows simple
tracking of any changes on page-reload. The full (non-technical) details
can be found over at 37, the technique itself is called the Yellow Fade
Technique.
Now as you can see by looking at this site I'm more of a functional than aesthetic person but I wanted to integrate this functionality in to a couple of sites. Only problem is no one has an explanation of how to do it and my JavaScript (ECMAScript) sucks... So come on people! Show me how it's done!
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Posted: 2005/01/30 23:18 | /sites | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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