Month: July 2007

Latest shared items from my Google Reader account:

• Mozilla and IronPython: IronMonkey [from Simon Willison’s Weblog]

Here at the Red Bull Air Race and just discovered the camera can do instant panoramas, so here goes 🙂

Latest shared items from my Google Reader account:

• Facebook vs. the Internet (or Thoughts on the Future) [from Tom Morris]

Latest shared items from my Google Reader account:

• Not disabling comments [from Neil’s World]
• More on Vodafone’s flooded HQ [from SMS Text News]
• UK Flood Mapping [from Brain Off]

Latest shared items from my Google Reader account:

• Add a headphone jack to your HTC device for under five bucks [from jkOnTheRun]
• Might there be something afoul with public-private [from Tom Morris]
• Personal names around the world [from Simon Willison’s Weblog]
• Secret Buildings You May Not Photograph, Part 643 [from Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection]

Latest shared items from my Google Reader account:

• Scaling Monitoring [from Photo Matt]

Latest shared items from my Google Reader account:

• Novice vs. Expert Google Users [from Google Operating System]
• Implementing efficient counters with MySQL [from MySQL Performance Blog]
• Things computers can only do in movies [from Boing Boing]
• google-diff-match-patch [from Simon Willison’s Weblog]
• start.gotapi.com [from Simon Willison’s Weblog]
• A list of film’s most impressive and famous long takes,… [from kottke.org]
• Amazon.com acquires dpreview.com [from News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
• The latest in Adobe Illustrator [from Scobleizer]
• The content of the O’Reilly Factor was recently analyzed and compared… [from kottke.org]

Opera Mini 4 for Java capable devices is out in beta. It features a lovely zoom out overview of websites, so I can see the whole of bbcnews.com on one screen (you click the area of interest to zoom in).

Downloads at www.operamini.com

Sometimes the product doesn’t warrant the packaging… yesterday I received a Micro SD card from Expansys. These things are tiny – in the photo below the card is next to a UK 5p coin (must be just over 1cm diameter?) and it packs a whopping 2Gb.

The real astonishment is the size of the package, which the card is sitting on: a full size Jiffy bag designed for A4-size contents. Putting the two next to each other really demonstrates the difference in size (100fold at least, I’d reckon)

Granted the card came with an SD adapter (unexpected bonus), a bunch of leaflets and the delivery note, but considering the size of the item it does alll seem a little excessive.

As it happens, I’m not about to rush about and accuse Expansys of single-handedly ruining the environment – I laughed when I saw it… but other people might feel differently.

Amazing price of £73.95 (and it’s real too) for a Nokia 770 Internet tablet.

How the heck can they afford to produce it at this price? I definitely intend to get one.

Via SMS Text News