August 2010
27 posts
My First 3D: The Story of View-Master - Gizmodo →
I’ve often wondered how far back the ViewMaster goes - turns out, over seventy years!
Cute Stickers For Apple Portable Devices →
Wouldn’t these be a bit cooler if you could laser-etch them onto your device?
Sneak Preview: New Pixelpipe for Symbian | The... →
Welcome news: Pixelpipe are about to launch a dedicated app for Symbian-based devices. I was content enough with Nokia Share Online (i.e. it worked), but this will improve the experience still…
HP 4550DN with JetDirect 610N -... →
Tutorial: Creating a Retro Sci-Fi Poster | Adam... →
This looks great, though my lack of graphics skills at this level might put a damper on things…
The League of Moveable Type →
A set of open-source fonts… and they’re really good! (Well, *I* think so.)
Nokia N8: How To Set Up Your Email | NokNok.tv →
Oh my, I really, really would like this phone, yes, indeedy…
How to Make a Picture Frame from a CD Case -... →
My wife would never stand for this, but I think it’s a fun idea.
Eight Great Tips For Traveling With the iPad -... →
Much of this is transferrable (or adaptable) for non-iPad users, and most of it is common-sense. All good in my book.
Marginal Revolution: Robert Sloss predicted the... →
If this isn’t a hoax, it’s genuinely uncanny, although to be really pedantic, I’d replace “iPhone” with “smartphone”…
MFI brand to be reassembled - guardian.co.uk →
Good luck to them…
A Flip-Like Pocket Cam From Sanyo Does 1080p At... →
Look forward to seeing how much this little wonder will go for in the UK…
Random Quotes - The Quotations Page →
Always good for THOSE moments…
At 13,000 years, tree is world’s oldest organism -... →
Frankly: given the unfortunate tendency of elements of the human race to pointless spiteful vandalism, if I was reporting on a 13,000-year-old tree, the last thing I’d do would be to give away…
Happy 80th Birthday to Fiddlesticks, the First... →
My, how time flies…
opmlmanager.com →
Set up your own personal “directory” of podcasts, and configure all your podcast-capable devices to use the same list (so it says here - will have to try it out…).
Anthologize →
A WordPress 3.0 plugin, to facilitate exporting of blog material to ebook formats. (Don’t think it includes LaTeX export yet; perhaps I should ask for it?)
Top 5 unusual Audioboos | Electricpig →
This could be entertaining…
HOW TO: Use Annotations on YouTube - Mashable →
Ever noticed YouTube videos with little popup “speech bubbles”? Here’s a short introduction to how they are made…
Brian Blessed lends his tongue to TomTom •... →
And there I was, looking for a reason to want a satnav… three cheers for Brian!
Should I be worried about piracy? | New Music... →
Interesting take on the thorny subject of “unauthorised” music copying and distribution.
Mile-wide asteroid heading towards Earth poses... →
I don’t suppose putting up an umbrella at the last moment (Wile E Coyote-style) would help?
Create a Better Emergency Contact Number with... →
I ought to check whether Google Voice has reached the UK yet, but this suggestion looks interesting for those “call this number in case of emergency” moments.
This Cray-1 PC Replica Has 200,000 Times the Power... →
Boy, would I like a PC which looks like a Cray-1… even if an iPad has more computing power than the original supercomputer!
Twapper Keeper, Tweets and Captioning « Ramblings... →
Marieke Guy (UKOLN) reports on efforts to provide an archiving facility for Twitter posts, and also a method of providing a synchronised video Webcast and live Twitter feed.
Urban Dictionary: powerdisking →
I like today’s “Urban Word Of The Day”: “powerdisking”, or watching several episodes of a TV show in a row, usually from a DVD box set. Much as I’d welcome the opportunity, it’s tough powerdisking…
fewt@blog:~$ _: Move your logs and temp files to... →
Wonder if this might provide a boost to my Eee 701?
July 2010
25 posts
TA Walker - BandCamp →
The musical home of guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and composer TA Walker (oh, that’s me :-)). Download the album “Gateway Suite” for free; other material from the back catalogue will follow…
New site for my musical output
Just a quick note (pun not intended, really) to let you know that I now have my own page at BandCamp, the really rather good site for artists to get their music “out there”.
To kick things off, I have uploaded a “freebie”: a recording of the solo guitar/looping set I played at a church arts/creativity event last week. If chilled-out ambient soundscapes are your thing,...
How to Sync Any Desktop Calendar with Google... →
I really hope this refers to calendar-syncing of events with copies on the local machine (rather than just accessing Google Calendar remotely)…
The Art And Science Of The Email Signature -... →
Some useful tips on how to craft an email signature which does the job, without annoying its recipients (hopefully!).
Touchnote - All About Symbian Review →
Now THIS sounds like a decent idea - send a photo from your Symbian mobile phone, and this outfit prints it onto a postcard and sends it to the recipient. A little pricier than a “normal” postcard,…
Ben Walker →
Found this chap via BandCamp; he looks like my kind of artist, and not just because we share a surname :)
From the Canyon Edge - :-Dustin Kirkland: Dear... →
Or to put it another way: a handy script to get a Linux terminal window to send a message to NotifyOSD when it finishes a task. Yes please.
Bandcamp →
I’ve been looking out for a music-hosting service, which might be along the lines of the way MP3.com used to work in the late-1990s. Could this be it?
This virtual horror is all too real | Eva Wiseman... →
Tom Scott’s new short film “Mob”, sounds like an unnerving story of the social Internet gone horribly wrong. I want to see this, but just not straightaway…
Track and Protect 2 - All About Symbian Review →
I haven’t thought much before now, about what I’d do if my mobile phone was lost or stolen - this service sounds like a very good idea to me.
Nokia E72 - 12 things to remember before... →
The summer holiday season is at the door, so here are some handy tips and tricks I came across for the travelling mobile phone user…
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The business of fizzyness | Life and style |... →
I didn’t know the SodaStream never went away - looks like it may be making a comeback…
BBC News - Christmas comes early for shoppers in... →
Funny - I would’ve expected Harrod’s to get in there first…
Welcome, visitor...
…to my de facto home on the Web, whilst I get around to resurrecting my main blog from the graveyard to which some problems at its hosting company consigned it.
I’ll be posting here periodically, with assorted thoughts, links (via my Delicious account), photos (from my Flickr photostream), YouTube videos and so on. If you really want to get the latest straight from the proverbial...
New Sony VAIO P hands on photos: Neon netbooks |... →
Aaarrggghhh! I looked at the colours, and now I’m BLIND!!! Oh the humanity!…, etc.
The CMS Matrix →
The Content Management Comparison Tool
JISC-PoWR » Blog Archive » A Guide to Web... →
A new guidebook from JISC on preserving digital material indefinitely - looks good!
Update to jQuery Visualize: Accessible Charts with... →
I’m keeping an eye open for methods of generating charts and graphs from tables of data, which keep the underlying data accessible (for the visually-impaired, etc.). So far, this one looks just like…
Feed curry to sheep, boffins suggest - The... →
This headline is pure “The Day Today”, but apparently the research is genuine, even if the findings run counter to most humans’ empirical experience…
Snap Jack Guitar Cables from John Hornby Skewes →
These are the guitar cables with magnetic jacks for easy switching between instruments, which I couldn’t remember what they were called :-)
Pirate-themed idyll wins Shed of the Year 2010 -... →
Suddenly, our back garden looks INCREDIBLY boring…