Author Archives: James McParlane

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About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

ThumbWhere AmazonS3 Support

I just checked in the test candidate for external storage which supports Amazon S3 and FTP. When this is deployed, API licensees can provide one or more Amazon S3 or FTP accounts and ThumbWhere will use that to store your … Continue reading

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Update

We’ve been rather busy for the last year and a half working in the emerging interactive television market so unfortunately there has been no time or resources to devote to the public API as I’ve spent most of my time … Continue reading

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ThumbWhere Image upload now supported by MahTweets

‘MahTweets is a rich, awesome, twitter client, feature inline media, filtering, tracking (saved searches) and much more’ MahTweets can be downloaded from http://theleagueofpaul.com/mahtweets/ The ThumbWhere plugin was developed by @WillHughes It supports Image uploading and uses ThumbWhere’s URL shrinking service … Continue reading

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ThumbWhere.Com

Been a bit quiet here for the last few months. I’ve been particularly busy at work but also I’ve been working on a few other projects on the side. One of these is ThumbWhere. http://thumbwhere.com (try the blog for more … Continue reading

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PitaPata – Tickers And Widgets For Your Pets

Developed by some very dear friends of mine who used to work at Massive. http://pitapata.com/   This is the same team that produced LilyPie http://lilypie.com/ which provides Tickers and Widgets for your baby or child 🙂

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The Conroy Rule

Australia is gripped in debate over it’s government’s push to introduce Mandatory ISP Level Filtering. Yes and the policy is about as well thought out as it is acronymed. Out of that debate Jon Seymour has come up with ‘The … Continue reading

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IE At Work And FireFox At Home

Looking at the Browser Global Marketshare Statistics on getclicky.com, there is an obvious 7 day cycle with 5 days high, 2 days low for IE and 5 days low, 2 days high for Firefox – both in perfect sync. My … Continue reading

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Introducing qr.tl – Command Line Photoshop

http://qr.tl (pronounced ‘qwertle’) is a real time image manipulation service that lets you crop, compose, scale, tint, slice, dice images and generate QR codes without having to have any software installed on your webserver or PC. The way it works: … Continue reading

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Practical Applications Of Finite State Machines In Web Development

In my last post I described the basic State Machine/Theorem Prover developed in JavaScript – here is a recap, update and continuation of that post based on the latest development. And BTW – This is my presentation for WebJam 08 … Continue reading

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PhotoShop For Video

Most impressive and most scary technology demo I have seen this year. Once this is as easy to use as Photoshop, our trust of media will be reduced even further. High Quality Quicktime Video Once they can do this with … Continue reading

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