NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, more commonly known as SDO, has spent the last three years taking pictures of the sun, showing off its steady increase in activity as its latest 11-year cycle nears its peak. As part of the project, NASA has taken some of the images and compiled them into a single 3-minute video, which makes it easy to see the gradual increase in solar activity. SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures...

The post title is a bit confusing, so I’ll try to explain the purpose here: Let’s say you have a webpage with a top navigation menu. Now, suppose you want to be fancy and have the top navigation stay static with respect to the page as the user scroll down. The effect is seen implemented on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Techcrunch, Woot.com, etc… I’m going to explain how this trick is done using  jQuery. Now,...

I’ve been on a quest to find the best weather app for quite some time now, and I think I’ve finally found it. I have an iPhone, and the native weather app has been put in my “junk” folder for almost a year now, because it looks so ancient and is so impractical. What I wanted was an app that is clean, elegant, and informative. “How informative” you ask? Well, I want to know how windy it’s going to...

When Vincent Laforet made a post about a game changing device that was about to by launched in the film-making industry, I really didn’t expect much of it. Vincent said it was a “mobile” device, so I thought it was some sort of lighting device that you could carry with you while filming on set. I was far from being correct. Very far. Watch this video and you’ll know what I’m talking about.If you notice, the...

April’s Fool is approaching us, so I thought this post would be appropriate. Below is a jQuery code snippet that you can paste into your website that’s loaded with jQuery to run on the first day of April, 2013. The prerequisite is that jQuery.noConflict() has been called, and you have FTP access to your website or WordPress blog. Here are the things this code will do: - Check to see if today is April’s Fool. If yes,...

Who needs to travel and use quadcopters, hexacopters, or even octocopers to shoot some aerial footage nowadays? All you need is Nokia 3D maps and Final Cut Pro, and some beefy computer hardware. That’s exactly what Paul Wex did to produce the video below. Upon coming up with the idea, Paul realized that his computer graphic card wasn’t powerful enough to execute it. Paul then upgraded his setup and was finally able to put...

The Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA and members of other organizations. Various groups and individuals have made claims that the six manned landings (1969–1972) were faked and that the twelve Apollo astronauts did not walk on the Moon. The argument is that the technology to send men to the Moon was lacking or that the Van...

If you run a WordPress blog and you have some security features, for example, Jeff Starr’s .htaccess firewall or BulletProof Security plugin, you may find that after upgrading to WordPress 3.5, your admin area has some of the below issues: 1. Admin menu flyouts not working 2. Can’t add media in pages/posts/or in the media area 3. Twenty Twelve theme did not load fully on first upgrade As it turns out, this is due to the...

Please excuse me while I’m still getting myself together after watching these mind-fuckingbending videos. The people from Foton have developed special movie retouching techniques that won’t damage details of material, and they don’t use “blur skill”, that is why you feel more real. I’ve always wondered how beauty production commercials are made where the hair or the skin is so flawless. This technique...

Let’s talk about website maintenance for a few minutes. More than a year ago, I posted an entry on how to backup your WordPress site using built-in tools such as W3 Total Cache and WP-DBManager. I didn’t have a content delivery network at the time, so the process was more straight-forward. Now that I have Amazon Cloudfront as my CDN, I have to manually set it up to back up my website nightly. I can’t stress enough how...