The title of this post is one I found in an article today at V3.co.uk. You can find the whole article here. Lately there’s a lot to do with the Flash player and video on the Internet. I also see a lot of misunderstanding and even some people putting there heads in the ground. Everyone is basically thinking that Flash will disappear from the web. Eventually it probably will, not as fast as we think however.

All the fuss right now is about Flash as Video standard. Because HTML5 has a build in video tag, as it appears now, that plays all different video’s without the need for the Flash plugin. When we look at it that way, Flash will probably disappear. This doesn’t mean however, that Flash won’t be usable anymore. The plugin will still be available, only the usage of it will be limited more and more over the years. And that’s something a lot of people are missing the last few days.

Another interesting post on ZDnet got my attention. There Dana Blankenhorn points out why Microsoft and Apple prefer the H.264 codec instead of other alternatives (like flash). The reason for that you’ll find in the blogpost itself. Doesn’t anybody find that disturbing at all? I sure do, I’m someone who lobby’s for open standards as much as I can. The H.264 codec however is one of the greatest around, so it gives me some mixed feelings.

I think time will tell us (of course) what will happen with all of this. I think Flash will be one of the major plugins the next few years, especially when they create something to load flash in the HTML5 canvas, which is already there in a experimental phase.

The past few days I’ve been busy validating this WordPress driven website you’re viewing right now. I wanted it to be HTML 5 valid. Because it’s WordPress I found it hard to find the right code for some problems the validator pointed out. Because of the plugins and there own code and WordPress itself it took some digging but after a day of bug solving it finally happened, the validator popped green. See the validation results here!

After the HTML part I also wanted to validate my own CSS. And luckily the CSS was version 3 valid immediately! However some plugin CSS made the page render as invalid. You’ll find the result for the CSS here.

Most designers, artists and coders will certainly know that Creative Suite CS5 has been launched recently. Some new great tooling is added to the software suite from Adobe.  You might want to know about some nice new features in, for example Photoshop CS5. Below you’ll find a good video tutorial from Lynda.com about the simple and small new features added in Creative suite 5. In their YouTube channel you’ll find more interesting new features in CS5!

For the company I work at (Quipment) I was tasked to make a new direct mail which people received through normal mail throughout the whole country. Below you’ll find the result. Love to hear any remarks and opinions!

I recently read an article on frankwatching.com which is one of the better dutch Internet blogs. When something new hits the web or a new marketing 2.0 method has been developed, they’re one of the first that write about it. Well, let’s get back to the contents of the article.

The writer (Steven) is suggesting an idea to pause your newsletter subscription. Some American companies are already experimenting with this and they’re getting a lot of possible feedback. The idea is very simple. Just give the user the ability to pause his subscription for a period of time one most provide. A simple select box or date calendar would do the trick here. I don’t think it would require a lot of work when looking at the technical part of this idea. The only problem is, what if the user forgets that he set a pause for like half a year. After that period he’ll get the newsletter again and then it can look like SPAM. I mean a lot of people don’t remember these sort of things after half a year. A reminder email probably would do the trick, as Steven also mentioned.

At the bottom of the article Steven writes about a pause button or link for social media. Here’s where the idea is really useful. You probably get shocked after the twitter emails you’ve gotten after a vacation, when having a lot of followers it will even get more and more! A pause button will do a wonderful job here. You don’t get the emails for the period of the pause, but it’s possible to look the tweet up. A win – win situation! That’s how I see it anyway. I think these sort of features will get main stream in a few years, they got my vote!

This used to be a static blog page. I don’t think it adds any extra to this blog, therefor I’m converting this to a post.

Most people that know me as a person also know that I like to play around with music a lot! I’m really positive towards almost any electronic music. However a good soundtrack will catch my interest also.

In my spare time I’m busy to put my own music and sounds idea’s in a good sounding track. Unfortunately I don’t have the right hardware to master the tracks. So I really don’t know how the tracks sound outside of the places I tested it with (Car, Computer, Surround set, Phone etc.). When creating music it’s a bit like designing something. You try a million things before you like it and even then it sometimes not what you thought it would be.

I want to provide a way for people to check once in a while what I have been making. Therefor you’ll find my current made tracks/noise/sounds (just how you want to put it) below. Keep in mind it’s all a housy / trance kind off stuff, so when you don’t like that, just don’t listen them .

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First track I made. In my opinion it’s ready. I don’t want to add more things to it. Would be nice to be able to tweak it in a right way.

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The second track I made. Not really ready at the moment, but an impression.

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Also a  project that’s still in progress.

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The latest addition! It’s again a work in progress, just a quick preview.