This is awesome, a little bug – look at the mystery line that won’t go away on my mac… I could restart it – but then I’d never probably see this bug again. One more for OS X Lion!
Funny Youtube Error
Was doing stuff on Youtube this morning, and got this funny error related to a highly trained team of monkeys… I hope they are working hard! My laugh of the day.
“A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation” is too perfect!
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Grocery Store use of QR codes
As QR codes are hitting the US finally, its awesome to see more and more in local stores. I saw this on a Freschetta Pizza marketing display ad in the store. Great Idea to try and get customers that are there more involved with the product!
Great Clips does their online map correct
I’ve never been so impressed with a online map for a location finder. Great Clips does a GREAT job on their map by putting the times the businesses open actually on the map! Think of your average consumer, why would they be looking for a great clips? Probably to get a quality haircut, and if they are looking at the map odds are in a hurry! 
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QR Codes with FPDF and PHP
This drove me crazy, I wanted to include a QR code on a PDF document using the open source FPDF Class for PHP. Here is the trick:
$pdf->Image('https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr&chl=John&.png',30,30,15);
You use the Google Charts API, and then add a “&.png” to the end of it – so FPDF thinks that this is actually a image, even though its dynamically generated.
Before just using this however, I would do a check to make sure that your QR code is available (ex: what if google is down, you don’t want your web application to stop working).
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Hotel Wireless – Ethostream forcing you to make google your homepage
Thought this was funny and tacky – checkout what you have to do to use the internet at this hotel, yes, they want you to make Google your homepage. Once you click the button and start to drag it, after about 10 seconds the button lights up to continue to internet! Crazy!
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ABC Take the Money and Run
What a great idea for a reality TV show – who knows how good it will be in execution. But I saw previews today for it today, the concept is they give $100,000 to someone and tell them to hide it. Then if within 48 hours it is still there they win it!
The catch, they have professional investigators going after the cash, if they find it they win! What a great idea.
Check it out on ABC.com – http://abc.go.com/shows/take-the-money-and-run
Having real cops go after it and use all their techniques is great. Will be interesting to see how well the show goes and how the ratings are.
Hopefully they make this TV show available online so everyone can watch it online.
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Adobe Flash Bugs with OS X Lion
I thought this was histarical, that there are tons of Adobe Flash bugs with OS X Lion!
The funniest part was the description (source: adobe.com – http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/905/cpsid_90508.html#main_Flash_Player on 7-31-2011)
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Flash Player
- Flash Player may cause higher CPU activity when playing a YouTube video. Possibly related to disabled hardware acceleration.
UPDATE: The final release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) provides the same support for Flash hardware video acceleration as Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). The previous “Known Issue” suggesting that video hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion was incorrect and based on tests with a pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion that related to only one particular Mac GPU configuration. We continue to work closely with Apple to provide Flash Player users with a high quality experience on Mac computers. - The Flash Player settings dialog does not respond to mouse clicks. If you find yourself in this state, you can use the “tab” key to change the focus to the “Close” button and use the spacebar to close the dialog. While not all settings are available, you can also use the Flash Player native control panel located in System Preferences.
- Custom native mouse cursors are not animating properly on Mac 10.7.
Flash Pro
- Flash Pro CS4 will not work on Mac OS X 10.7. Adobe does not intend to update this product for use on Mac OS X 10.7. We do not recommend that these customers upgrade to Mac OS X 10.7.
- Flash Pro CS5 and CS5.5 are generally compatible with Mac OS X Lion.
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Why can’t apple just do a better job of making their products compatible with adobe stuff? Even though Flash is memory intensive, its crazy that Apple can’t help them a little since so much of the web is still built on flash…
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Kohls.com and Kohls Charge Pointless QR Code Usage
I thought this was a very poor use of a QR code, who is going to scan their Kohls Charge bill to shop from the regular kohls.com site (not a mobile site) from their mobile device (like my iPhone). The site appeared really small (the regular Kohls.com site) when I scanned it.
I’m really surprised
they weren’t more creative like a custom message or custom QR code for each envelope… that would have been smart!
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Yelp Update on iOS
This was priceless. Yelp had their all update description as “What’s creepy and crawly and rhymes with hugs? We fixed some of those” – so obviously they just did some bug fixes in 5.3.2 of their iOS app released on July 25th, 2011
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