Eye Fi

Tuesday 27 November 2007 at 6:03 pm Nifty - Eye Fi is a wireless SD card for your camera that transmits your photos to your computer or favourite online photo or social networking site.

Garnet for Nokia + More

Friday 23 November 2007 at 10:16 am My Nokia 770 is back in the UK for repair (supposedly on its way back but its been shipping for awhile) - when it finally returns I'll be trying out the Garnet VM for Nokia. Lets you run PalmOS apps on your Nokia Internet Tablet.

Interesting article on the commoditisation of technology and the rise of applications as a service - Quo vadis, Computing. A Joyent Manifesto.. Some other nice articles in the sidebar relating to Sun, NetApp and OpenSolaris.

Typeface porn - Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. The eternal quest for a decent mono-spaced font. I'll have to give it a try.

Using rsync to mimic Time Machine style backups - Time Machine for every Unix out there.

Chandlers getting on - almost starting to look usable now - Chandler Features & Screenshots.

Wonderful design ideas - Cram a readable calendar into a business card.

Nice article on being more pro-active in supporting the new wave of technology-savvy end users - How IT departments can learn to say yes to end users.

Uh, as if you needed help procrastinating - heres a flowchart for those uninitiated in the arts of killing time.

If you're in the software business then this is a pretty awesome guide to doing good software demo's - Joel Spolsky - How to demo software.

Weaver on Wellington

Thursday 22 November 2007 at 08:31 am Classic - I love it but what's with all the moustaches?.

Sigourney Weaver is brilliant!

Google 10GbE Switch

Monday 19 November 2007 at 6:22 pm Via the ever interesting Hack the Planet - Google’s Secret 10GbE Switch.

Nice bit of detective work if its true!

My Bloody Valentine Reform - Woohoo!

Monday 19 November 2007 at 11:01 am Anyone I know in the UK has to go along and tell me all about it - My Bloody Valentine reform and gig.

Doomed. We're all doomed, I tell you . . .

Wednesday 14 November 2007 at 12:49 pm According to this wonderful New Scientist article humanity is going to feel the mineral resource crunch in a serious way in the next 5 to 10 years.

Check it out - we run out of Platinum in 15 years and Indium (used for those swanky LCD's everyone is buying to replace their CRT's and TV's) in 5 - 10 years.

Let the hoarding begin . . .

Amazing - VectorMagic

Friday 09 November 2007 at 4:26 pm This tool converts a bitmap into a vector image - take a look at VectorMagic.

Its pretty impressive for a web tool.

Prism + More

Tuesday 06 November 2007 at 6:35 pm Mozillas Prism is awesome. If you monitor web based applications you can use Prism to open them within their own self contained browser window and launch them as individual applications - I'm using it to manage and monitor our SAN's and phone systems. Lots of potential in this project.

Something about obsessive collectors appeals to me - Brandname Pencils.

Parody motivational posters - Decision Making. Most of these are rubbish but there are a few gems in there.

The benefits of public transport illustrated.

An analysis of the Excel calculation bug down to the gory assembly details. Shows even the simplest function can be quite complicated.

Being a fan of nostaligic-computing this stash of ancient magazines covering the golden age of home computing is fantastic - Dust of that Floppy. Particular the Zzap64
Stevenf writes a short pithy piece on Why the Google Phone will never fly. I've asked a couple of Telco people about when they'll bring in the Apple iPhone and they just point at Windows Mobile phones that have the same (+ many more) features. Unfortunately they don't understand why people are happy with fewer features if those features are really well implemented and integrated. If I were in the mobile arm of Telecom or Vodafone I'd be walking over the bodies to be the first to sell the iPhone in NZ.

Retro Remake - Wizball

Monday 05 November 2007 at 06:52 am Dust off the joystick - Retrospec has remade Wizball for Windows.

If you had a Commodore64 in the 80's then chances are you had Wizball - one of the classic games on the platform.

Moved At Last

Friday 02 November 2007 at 2:38 pm We've finally moved into our new house (new is relative - the house was built in the 1920's). A new header with our view will follow shortly.

A few moving related recommendations -

A1 Movers - at about $95Z/hr (+ a $10 difficulty allowance) these guys are brilliant. Being a mover of any kind (delivery, furniture, piano etc) in Wellington is a difficult job - anyone thats seen the place will know that those tight contours make moving anything bigger than a small crate pretty painful. These two guys got two double beds, a sofa bed, tv, fridge and 15 large boxes shifted in two hours flat!

Colin Web Plumber & Gasfitter - turns out that leaving your gass switched off for awhile results in dust and moisture sealing up your pilot light nozzles. So if you need hot water after you get your gas reconnected it pays to get a gas-fitter in to make sure your cylinder and heaters work the way they're meant to. Colin was available within hours of discovering a problem after the gas was hooked up - calling three other gas-fitters that were only available the following week which didn't help us as we were moving in the following day. He was able to assess and fix the problem within 40 minutes.