Charging Batteries without Wires

New MIT research reveals a way to send wireless energy to mobile phones and laptops.

In page 2,

Using the electric field would pose a health risk, and would be better employed in applications in which people aren't nearby, he says. Conversely, using the magnetic field would be much safer and could be implemented just as easily. "I can't think of any reason to worry [about health concerns]," he says, "but people will."

As technology improvement, everything are getting handy, but doesn't mean people are getting healthy. Got to make some search how electric field and magnetic field affect to people health.

jEditCvs

Looking at a more completed cvs plugin for jEdit.
Should be as polish as eclipse.

New Motor Trend

The new Motor Trend web site is much better than before. It's more like an enterprise now. Previously, the page was design for small screen and had no enough space for padding.

window.console

I tried to control BUTTON size with relative size, like

BUTTON {display:block; text-align:center; width:2em; height:1.5em; padding:0;}

However, Safari give me a bigger size.
So, I tried to size down from javascript.

if (window.console) { //safari
document.writeln("<style type="'text/css'">");
document.writeln(".ccActions BUTTON {width:1.5em; height:1em;margin-bottom:2px;}");
document.writeln("</style>");
}


Unfortunately, my Firefox 2 understood window.console. I
was surprised, but I didn't see it in the mozilla DOM reference.

But, I didn't have this problem in my new laptop's FF2. So, I looked at my extension. I disabled Firebug, then I found my script was good again.

So to be safe, I change my Safari condition as
if (window.console && window.console.log) //safari

Another Notes :
When I tried
if (window.console && window.console.log()) //safari
Safari crashed. Despite Safari is rarely crashed, but I still don't like.

Resume my blog

Previously, I found blogger only kept my one year blog. I was upset and stop to post.

Now, I see my early post shown again. It's time to resume.

Gun Engine Explodes Fuel Efficiency

Gun Engine Explodes Fuel Efficiency

Check it out, one gallon 220 miles.

eyehook - games : COLOR box

eyehook - games : COLOR box

Nice color game.

National Sex Offender Registry

National Sex Offender Registry

Just checked it and saw a very weird browser behavior. I used Firefox to check offender. When I clicked each square, but an IE modal window popped up.

Widgets, BitTorrent, content blocking: Introducing Opera 9 Beta

Widgets, BitTorrent, content blocking: Introducing Opera 9 Beta

Play new Opera 9 for a day. There are a lot of imporvement in the style sheet, but I still see few problem.

The interesting thing is when I visit youtube. Usually in Firefox, I click "Home" tab to go to the front page and I can see "Recently Viewed" differently each time. But, when I try Opera 9, those recently viewed thumbnails are never change.

Live Journal

In the front page of LiveJournal, I see "journals and communities created since 1999". They must be the ancestor of blogs. I don't see good index and listing in the front page, so I am wondering how do they get their post public.

There is an interesting statistics. I guess teen like web.

Age Distribution

The following shows the age distribution of LiveJournal users:

13	18111
14	86152
15	208933
16	343292
17	402602
18	415630
19	407798
20	374305
21	306239
22	241646
23	196216
24	154057
25	128022
26	100316
27	74239
28	59702
29	49253
30	40438
31	34715
32	27681
33	24569
34	21020
35	20230
36	18281
37	14073
38	11175
39	10222
40	8597
41	7747
42	6677
43	5884
44	5474
45	5978
46	5314
47	4245
48	3569
49	3335
50	3312
51	2978
52	2508
53	2240
54	1882
55	1959

FIELDSET/TABLE Padding

Another headache about FIELDSET. I have two FIELDSETs side by side ( left and right).
The left side is for Work Address and right side is for Home Address. They are almost same except Organization and Position in Work Address.

I try to make there two FIELDSETs in the same height with style sheet height:30em, but Firefox gets more space in the bottom.

Finally, I find that IE will have margin on the top/bottom of each INPUT text field. So far, I have no luck to remove the extra margin on the top/bottom of text field.

CLC-4-TTS and Fire Vox

I am looking a screen reader for Firefox itself for a while. Few days ago, I heard Fire Vox from Frank Hecker.

I tried to install it few times, but still no luck. I hope a copy of Fire Vox hosted in mozilla extension.

Safari contentEditable

Interested move -- Safari is going to use contentEditable behavior to do textfield. It's definite to benefit css. My immediate question : does this apply to textarea, too? And, is this really compatible since people were talking about range issue in the contentEditable?

Actually, my major concern is when scrollbar will be always displayed correctly in the textarea.
Right now, if textarea is small, the up/down arrow won't display.

Safari always claim great feature. When I examine it, it's kind of crippled.

Eye on rival YouTube, Atom overhauls video site

Just Check AtomFiles web site. They don't have the major feature, random select films in the front page, like YouTube. Sometimes, I just want to browser it, but not any particular topics.

Suggestion to Google toolbar

So far, I can't a spell check extension for Firefox in windows. The spell check Google toolbar may be helpful. But, I think, it can be more helpful if the spell check function is the context menu. Some of my web forms are on the pop up window.

Heavy

"This will be over faster than your last relationship" and ".001 percent of your daily ad intake" are the sorts of wisecracks users see right above the video commercial that greets them when they visit Heavy.com.

Just try to look at it what is that. Is this another site like youtub.com ?
My guess they are suffering the growing pain now. I just can't connect the site.

Flash and Flex

Whatcott said the Adobe platform supports things that AJAX does not support, such as programmable audio, video, vector graphics, synchronous publish/subscribe data connectivity, offline data storage and cross-domain data access.

Constantly, I use iframe to add other domain content; however, there is always security issues and can't expand iframe to content max size. Just read an article from eweek and put a quote on the top. Is flash my solution?

Safari Compatibility Hit List

The WebKit Open Source Project post compatibility hit list today. Usually, using Safari to look at a pure thml page is great -- nice and neat font. But, when looking at more complicated pages, safari is like the secondary browser. It lacks HTML editor and a lot of JavaScript issues.

Besides standard compatibility compliance, I hope Safari can catch up usability.

Acrobat User Community

My first throught about www.acrobatusrs.com is message board. People can post question to get help from web community. But, when I vist the site. I see blogs and some other learngin materials, not message board. Anyway, this is great move for adobe.

I have mixed feeling about PDF file. I would like people to send me PDF file instead of MS word file, but in the web, I will try not to open any PDF file. I think Acrobat reader is a monster as many reasons.

Read more at www.acrobatusers.com/

Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (1194.22)

Sestion 508

(n) When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.

There is a grey area on checkbox and radio button. Where do I put LABEL.

For example :

Accessories :

[ ] Printer

[ ] Monitor

[ ] Keyboard

[ ] Mouse

I believe each checkbox need to associate a LABEL with text on the right side.

Read more at www.access-board.gov/se...