Adobe Releases HTML5 Widget for Video
Have you ever tried to open up a website or video only to find a small clip-art image of that broken file? That’s because you didn’t have Flash, a plug-in for your web-browser that allows you to view videos. Now, with HTML5 and Adobe’s new widget, that won’t matter nearly as much.
Just today, Adobe released a new widget on their widget browser allowing programmers to embed videos in their websites using HTML5, without requiring the Flash Plug-in. If you try to open that video with a browser that does not support HTML5, it will revert back to the Flash… Continue reading
Facebook Disconnect for Web-browsing Privacy
Facebook users have been quite vocal about the social network’s recent privacy issues, but Google engineer Brian Kennish has come up with a solution that will keep your web browsing information from Facebook without forcing you to delete your Facebook account.
One of Facebook’s most popular features is called “Facebook Connect.” Basically, the feature allows you to post content directly to your Facebook page while you browse the internet. When you read an article online and click the Facebook ‘like’ button to share it with your friends, you are using Facebook Connect.
Privacy, however, is the thorn in Facebook Connect’s… Continue reading
Parallel Universes: Not Just Science Fiction
Parallel universes, unidentified masses, alternate diminsions – you know, the stuff that makes really good science fiction – may not be fiction much longer.
According to an article on The Huffington Post, physicists who have been researching the origins of the universe are hopeful that by next year they will find the first proof of other dimensions and hidden worlds, a concept portrayed only in science fiction as just that: fiction.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the infamous Swiss research center CERN, however, is moving into higher gear, and talks of the highly anticipated “New Physics” are on the… Continue reading
Facebook Security Breach: Not Very Significant?
The supposed “breach” of Facebook by the social network’s third-party applications has been a major news story since The Wall Street Journal printed an article that made the situation sound worse than it was.
According to BBC News, a number of third-party application developers were accessing personal information of an unknown number of Facebook uses and relaying that information to companies and advertisers. Although many Facebook users see this as another major problem with security, the situation actually isn’t very worrisome.
Third-party developers make programs to use within Facebook, called “Applications.” These applications often utilize cookies, small bits of… Continue reading
