The phone that isn't…
Quite amusing to see how little I phone or text with a smart phone. Seems the smart bit is more important than the phone bit...
Web/Tech
AutoCAD Exchange (ed) for AutoCAD Facebook, but not for me
Coincidence is a strange thing. Last night I was playing around with some new TypePad Blog Themes and considering a major re-design. While that may happen it will take a while so I decided a quick “makeover” was needed. Although the design hasn’t changed I have reviewed the
A fine liner but not a Dream
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
Me, the Fairlight CMI, Thomas Dolby and back to the Murrumbidgee River?
(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
NZ Herald a bit early with “Windows App”?
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?
A question before you die...
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, could
Yahoo! not ‘cool’? The Yahoo! Mail Visualization Project is!
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
I’ll remember the day I got a netbook
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
Autodesk & Instructables?
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
iTunes Is Shit
I mean, all it has to do is sync files/data with a USB connected device. How hard can that be?
No, I haven’t been arrested…
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 police
Stuck for a gift idea? Kiva is the gift that keeps giving
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