Panic Blog

• The 3D transforms are totally hosed in Firefox. We spent a day on workarounds until we discovered it’s fixed in Firefox 13 beta 1.
• Chrome displays, but doesn’t properly transform, the movie’s mask. We switched to a black background.
• Firefox doesn’t understand the mask at all. Black background again.
• There’s no documentation on what the size/resolution limits are for iPad movie playback. If our movie was 1300 pixels wide, it’d fail. 1200 pixels wide, no problem. Too-high frame rate, fail. 15 FPS, no problem. WTF.
• iOS won’t play our movie or poster frame if’s behind .htaccess auth. Why?
• Reports coming in that some iPads/iPhones still don’t show the video. Why.

That said: so totally worth it.

Finally, a present: here’s the song I wrote for the Coda 2 video (2.8 MB MP3).

• We’ve just updated Unison to 2.1. Good stuff. Release notes here.
• Also, Coda Notes has just hit 1.1, reducing console logging, and fixing bugs. Check your Safari Extensions preferences for the auto-update.
• User Jack Fruh made a nice looking guide to setting up Coda + Subversion.
• Some love for Kenichi’s Transmit 4 icon. [Site Down]
• Love achievements? Then you’ll love (?) Achievement Unlocked 2! [Flash]

• “★★★★★” , exclaimed MacFormat to Unison 2!
• Then, MacUser said “★★★★★” to Transmit 4! (But with mice.)
• ArsTechnica nominated Transmit 4 for their first-ever Ars Design Awards!
• We love documentaries. We love Winnebago Man. Win-winn. (Language!)
• Like trains, history, and Japan? Kenichi recommends the The Railway Museum.
• Cabel is thrilled there’s a new Divine Comedy album. (UK only. For now!)
• Finally, Wade reminds us: the Flyers made it to the Stanley Cup finals.

• A nice Macworld review (!) of our ShrinkIt tool. True fact: the review is exactly 17 words longer than the ShrinkIt source code itself.
• Speaking of ShrinkIt, it apparently shaved 4.7 MB off of Übercaster. Sweet!
• NOBY NOBY BOY for the iPhone is now available! Take useful iPhone functions — a clock, or a GPS — then make them crazy. This comedic “Productivity Tool” is wonderful. And if you like it, don’t forget our NOBY NOBY SHIRTS!
• I reported a pothole using an iPhone app. 6 days later, it’s fixed. 2010… :love: