Tag Archives: Apple

YouTube’s H.264 turnaround time is the new dial up

Just how long does it take for a YouTube video to become available on the YouTube iPhone app? Seriously, if YouTube accepts .wmv, .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpeg, .mp4, .flv, .ogg, 3gp and outputs to multiple .flv, mp4, 3gp… OMG, why … Continue reading

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Tackling Safari’s slow gif “feature” with jQuery

Safari’s WebKit has a funny behavior of displaying animated gif files at a lower frame rate than Firefox. From what I can tell, WebKit (including Google Chrome) caps the animated gif frame rates at 10fps. While it may be faster … Continue reading

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jQuery Triptych Slideshow

My previous how-to showed a new way to look at the slider function featured at the Apple.com/mac site. This one goes to Apple once again and their bucket ads shown in the iTunes Music Store (screen shot). The buckets are … Continue reading

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A better jQuery slider

If you haven’t seen Apple’s product slider in action, you must check it out. It’s a horizontal gallery of their products with horizontal slider controlled with javascript. I believe they are using the scriptaculous motion for this, but there should … Continue reading

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