I looked up knowing a Boeing 787 Dreamliner was somewhere in New Zealand. I even knew earlier in the day @dannews had been fortunate enough to fly to Christchurch in it. Immediately above a sleek twin engine jet was passing over glinting in the sunset. It's hard to
(Way) Back in the 80s I used to buy an Aussie technology magazine “Omni”, correction it was “Omega Science Digest”!. One issue had a card you could send off (with a few au$) to get the demo cassette for a remarkable new electronic instrument. Yes, that there was an analogue
I saw this on the NZ Herald website tonight and wondered: A “Windows App”, aren’t they coming with Windows 8? Clicking it took me through to a “Download the NZ Herald Windows App” page with link to Windows Phone Marketplace. So why not call it a Windows Phone App?
Aardvark ask a question you probably don’t really want to think about, but should. After all, barring a dramatic medical breakthrough, it’s going to happen and somebody will have to deal with this. Before you die... - aardvark.co.nz If you get hit by a bus tomorrow,
Cloud Computing
I’ve used Yahoo! mail since 2007, simply because that’s when my ISP changed their mail hosting from MSN to Yahoo! I also have Gmail and Windows Live mail accounts but my primary account is Yahoo! hosted. Until recently their webmail UI was pretty awful but I only used
Windows
It wasn’t that I waited for the Apple event, but the announcement of the iPhone 4GS (rather than some other sort of device) was part of the decision. I had been thinking about a mobile blogging solution. While you can do a lot with an iPhone, more with an
Design and Art
My first reaction to “Autodesk Acquires Instructables” was ”Why would they buy an old Pixar movie?”. I then realised it wasn’t “Incredibles”, duh!, but still had no idea what an Instructables was. Phillip Torrone’s post on Make, which I found via tenlinks.com, is a nice summary of
I mean, all it has to do is sync files/data with a USB connected device. How hard can that be?
Sometimes a Google vanity search is not a good idea… Salisbury woman charged with extortion - WGMD.COM Last Friday Salisbury Police arrested 46 year old Robin Capper on an outstanding warrant. Capper is charged with threatening an elderly man that unless he gave her money she would report to
Cool Software
This holiday season, think about adding Kiva Cards to your holiday gift list. Give one to a Kiva fan or introduce friends and family to microlending by giving them credit to make a loan! http://www.kiva.org/ [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/16991128 w=400&h=225] How
The Stuff iPhone app has serious deficiencies: - No indication of article publish/update date/time. - Does not remember text size setting. Default too large & I don't want to set every time I read an article - No way to disable the story image icons which
I don’t usually repost a full blog post but the one you see below is rather important to the future of this blog! Six Apart (Typepad’s owner) are “joining forces” with “media” (advertising company) VideoEgg. Mergers can bring good or bad. I hope this means a better TypePad
