I love to mix tunes on my traktor dj studio 3 but when I came across this little gem I thought to myself "God damn".

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This is the mother of all mixers. It's a usb mixer designed to be used with the traktor dj studio 3. I'm speechless, I want one...

After reading seven's post about how a black variant of the google home page would actually save energy I decided to do some research in hopes of doing just that, changing the skin of google. How hard can it be I thought to myself, a little bit of css in conjunction with firefox and a mean plug in, would do the trick. So after playing around a bit a found the solution and here it is.
Things you will need:

1. Firefox
2. Stylish firefox plug in
3. A bit of css knowledge

With the stylish plug in you can actually alter the css of any site including google. After installing the plug in and restaring firefox you will have a new little icon in the bottom right corner of firefox, this is the stylish plug in settings. Next download this file to your desktop. Open up that file with notepad and search replace your google location, for example: replace .com with .hr depending on your location and then save the file.
Next go to your google home page, right click the stylish settings icon and choose write styles > for this url and copy paste the file you just tweaked and paste it to yo the console. That's it you should now have a pimped out version of google that saves energy too.
The original article and more customizations can be found here.

Just a little inside story, to show you how demented i really am. I have installed Commodore 64 emulator on mobile phone, and am running Pirates on it. So i printed out an original map for Pirates so i can sail the seas and actualy know where i am going. One thing let to another and i sticked that map on the inside door of my toilet, so i can play Pirates and do my daily duty of polluting the sea. And then i noticed that on that map there is a year when it was published - 1987. Twenty years ago! Of all the technology available today, of all the computer games available on the market (wich are all borderlining junk), 20 year old C64 game is still holding on.

Also, say hello to "Another World" remake, best decision EVER in gaming world so far.

Aaron Bassett created AS2 class which can log info into the Firebug console - FlashBug! It supports all relevant firebug console methods (console.info, console.debug, etc...) as well as groups and timers. Happy times! :)

Here is a tricky one:

Would Pinball machines ever become so megapopular during the arcade days and over through the digital revolution (Amiga Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies, yummy!) if the score was not interpreted in MILLIONS? Whatever you hit, you get few hundred thousand points, millions were rolling like crazy on ramps, and skill trickshots were awarding 5 millions or more! Screw "Extra Ball", give me 10 million bonus! I bet wide-screen monitors were invented specifically to hold all those numbers in one row. Imagine the contrary "normal" version where you get small points - you struggle to learn a trickshot and then you get 23 points. Wow ... a whole 23. Unimpressive.

Could the same logic be applied on today's web projects? Let's put 15.649.233.000,00- on the next invoice, i bet client will be impressed! <HIGH SCORE>

Daemon, logging out.

OK, i do admit, iPhone is the new revolutionary device. It has smart features of turning off the screen when you talk, it uses multi-point touchscreen enabling cool tricks, autorotates screen, has more storage space than my desktop PC, neat design and all that little things that make you go GIVE ME THAT THING.

However. How, bloody, ever. If Apple is so progressive in technology, and they are the trendsetters for gadgets and computer operating system software (Vista = OSX), why the hell they fail at the most primitive things regarding common sense. First of all, breakthrough of Mozilla browser and immenese success of Blizzard's "World of Warcraft", and numerous other software pieces, showed us the importance of plugins and third party developed software docked into mothership software. It is impossible that a team of developers predicts the needs of every single individual on this planet, thus, it is better to leave development of plugins and small software OPEN for everyone. iPhone will be powered by Apple software only.

Second thing that pissing me is decision not to put high quality camera into huge device and it's cosequences. At this moment, you can go to ANY European telecom, and get a tiny mobile phone with integrated high resolution digital camera for a symbolic price going as low as 0 or 1 Euro or similar (signing the contract). These cameras have moving zoom lenses, have picture quality that can match small standalone digital cameras, have extremely good conectivity to PCs enabling you to download images instantly and to upload, check this out, MP3 files from your computer directly to REMOVABLE memory card without the need of bulky iTunes. Just drag and drop files to phone, and you are out. Most of phones have even front side camera for video telephony.

Now, what is stupid about this situation is that in 6 months Apple will release "new and improved" iPhone 2 that will have, guess what, a 3.0 mpix camera. Now all of you that bought iPhone now, can trash it, and go and by iPhone 2.

Few months after that, there will be iPhone 3 with camera on the front side as well, enabling video telephony, meaning you will want that one instead of iPhone 2.

Why? Why not be progressive thinking, and integrate high quality backside camera on the first go? So that Apple can sell more incarnations of iPhone in the future? Pffff ... "think different", yea right.

I also found a nice point of view by certain mister Jason - lack of tactile feedback by iPhone. Using conventional mobile phone i can type an SMS without ever having to look at the phone. I can access any menu simply by feeling buttons, and by feeling click of a key. To do anything even a bit more complex on iPhone, you need to look at it. No tactile feedback seriously hinders the usability, typing is hard, and mistakes will easily occur.

Until Apple gets it's act together, high-end Sony Ericsson phones is the way i will go.

Daemon, logging out.

Today, Adobe announced Flash Lite 3. It will become available in first half of 2007. It will support the same video formats supported by Adobe Flash Player and it will directly support video streams delivered by the Adobe Flash Media Server (or RED5 for that matter) :) . Can't wait to see it in action on my brand new sparkling black S80. :) YouTube mobile here we go... Sis, I hope my old RAZR won't die on you!

I don't know the reason but I love the result. :) If you go to full screen mode, and exit from it, the Flash player gets radical speed up. I noticed this behavior some time ago while working on very cpu consuming calcs w/ Papervision 3D (I actually screwed up the calculations, but the effect remains). It is by all means the weirdest feature currently available in Flash 9 player (can confirm it on Firefox/WinXP). Gooooo Adobe! :)

update: John and Carlos gave me the proof that I didn't go loco - check it out (and cry, John really ruled this one! Rock on PV3D!). On other hand, it could be very subjective thing. Maybe it's all in our heads. :)

Didn't do real calculations for my self, but I believe blindly in every link my buddy Daemon sends me (who checks the facts nowadays anyway). Check the original article out! And if you are interesed in some more numbers, check out DOE Energy Star Desktop Information too :)

Web developer rides on train, when suddenly he hears: "<td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td>". :) (Respect Deamon! This sounds funnier in Croatian).