This article covers the use of the RGB subpixel antialiasing technique used in various software packages including Adobe Reader, Mac OS X's Quartz font rasterizer, XRender, Microsoft ClearType, applied to the improvement of quality of non-text images. It includes a testbed and some sample code in C and PHP.
Archive for May, 2006
.htaccess, mod_rewrite on GoDaddy
Even though GoDaddy supports mod_rewrite, there are some definite peculiarities about their setup, with regards to .htaccess and PHP execution. Hopefully the observations I've made in this article will be of help if you're coming across the same problems I was.
EyeTV 2.2, EyeTV for DTT (USB)
The EyeTV for DTT is a tiny little box with an aerial socket and a USB socket that happily sits in the gap between the wall and my bed, with a long USB cable leading into the iBook wherever it is in the room. After buying it on eBay, I had to fork out another chunk of money for an upgrade from EyeTV 1.8 to 2.0, since all the fun stuff is in the 2.0 rewrite. Unfortunately, this turned out more expensive than it would have been to buy a new EyeTV for DTT with EyeTV 2.0 bundled.
Introduction to yet another blog
Hello.. I'm a 31-year-old programmer and web designer, living in Portishead, near Bristol, UK. I'm currently taking some time off to recuperate after having orthopaedic surgery in April, and am keeping busy by learning programming for Mac OS X (Cocoa) and OpenGL and putting together some fun projects.
I've set up this blog as a temporary measure to put some notes about stuff I've discovered while doing some coding on my latest project, and some other scribblings that might prove interesting to some.
I haven't spent much time at all on hacking this blog together. I started off with Nucleus CMS and spent some time shredding the default skin into something usable. Then I decided to switch to Wordpress, and had to do it all again. I've put together this temporary theme, which serves my purpose for the time being. However, it's still not what I want. One of these days I'll get around to redesigning it properly. In the meantime, this template's not too offensively ugly, so it'll do! Comments and feedback are welcome.