When logged into my Media Temple Word Press today, I was greeted with the following code sitting in my Admin : Incase your curious, this indicates that the site has been hacked. The code in the image above loads malicious Javascript to redirect users from your site to somewhere else. This type of attack is [...]
Categories: Development,Professional,Security
I have to give a big two thumbs up to the iPhone App, “The Leak in Your Home Town” created by Mark Skwarek and Joesph Hocking. In summary, after grabbing their iPhone App you can head off to any BP station, point your camera at the iconic British Petroleum logo and voila! You’ve got yourself [...]
Categories: Design,Development,Professional,User Experience
Recently I’d read an article by Richard Fink at A List Apart entitled “Web Fonts at the Crossing” which is an excellent summary of where browsers and standards are regarding embedding fonts in HTML pages. This is a technology that I haven’t read up on recently, mostly due to the fact that working in Flash [...]
Categories: Design,Development,Professional
Need to show the same video on your site to people on an iPad as well as Firefox 3.6, IE7? Want to support HTML5 Video but don’t know where to start with which browser supports which video format and how to detect properly? If so I’d suggest taking a look at the solution by Camen [...]
Categories: Development,Professional
Recently I’ve had a renewed interest in Processing. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the summary from their site is : Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to [...]
Categories: Development,Inspiration
Part of my job at unit9 involves estimating the time and cost for additional features on a site, or just judging how feasible something is. One of the things many clients ask for on their sites are Social Network Sharing Buttons such as “Digg this!” or “Add to Delicious”. This is usually a simple matter. [...]
Categories: Development
Tagged: Delicious, Digg, Social Network, useful
While working on a Flash AS3 site recently, we’ve encountered an odd issue where Mac Pros and Mac Minis didn’t seem to be registering sound via the microphone. Things did seem to work fine though on Windows machines, and also Macbooks and Macbook Pros. Very odd indeed. We found through much investigation that this is [...]
Categories: Development
Here at unit9 we’ve noticed that Firefox 3 for Mac OS X is creating visual issues on many of our flash sites. In particular, on sites where we use SWFAddress to deeplink into our flash site, when the URL in the address bar changes the Flash site then flickers off then back on. I was [...]
Categories: Development