Interesting bit of dialogue here. A blog notes bus ads from Sun pushing OpenOffice.org by taking aim at Microsoft… Amusing enough in it’s own right, but… …a Microsoft employee fires off a retort in her his blog with some taunts of her his (? gender assumption cleared up, thank you Sandy) own. Trouble is, the …
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Case of the disappearing Pantone colours
We’ve (well, my work has) recently been issued a takedown notice by Pantone, insisting that we remove a page of hex codes labelled with numbers that correspond to the Pantone Matching System. The page was very well patronised, even though it wasn’t very accurate and did not claim any ‘official’ status. Not wanting a fuss, …
My sad RAW workflow
I’m beginning to really enjoy shooting RAW format with my digital SLR, so why am I sad? Read on gentle friend…
phew!
It took a bit of care and time, but upgrading to wordpress version 2 went quite smoothly. I’m hoping to start playing with new plugins and enjoy improved comment spam prevention.
Google keeps the good stuff coming!
I can’t believe how many new and interesting things are coming out of the Google labs these days. A long-time gmail user, in the past month I’ve started using four new google tools and, so far, I have to report that they are all ‘really cool!’.
Round-tripping geocodes from Flickr to Google Maps
I love Flickr. I love Google Maps. Like a lot of people, I’d like to combine my love for these two tools by accurately geocoding my photos and then being able to see where geocoded photos were actually taken. I was frustrated that all the tools to do this either required GPS equipped devices, or …
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Mapping Australia – spoilt for choice?
Just a few months ago, Australians had no ‘new generation’ web street maps, now we’ve got three! By ‘new generation’, I mean smooth dragging, ajax/javascript driven, feature loaded maps – not the old point and click clunkers like whereis (though quite good in their own right, people want more these days). Now that I have …
Undocumented Google map trick
An article on Ogle Earth alerts us to a neat trick to get a location from Google Maps to Google Earth. Simply add ‘&output=kml’ to the URL of the map you are viewing, (be sure to click the ‘Link to this page’ on the map first!). I created this simple javascript gMaps2kml bookmarklet, that seems …
Google gets organised…
Piece by clever piece, Google are putting together the bits I need to manage my life online. The latest addition is google calendar. Nothing earth shattering here, just stuff that works the way you want it to. I exported my Oracle calendar appointments as an iCal file, it imported seamlessly into google and straight away …
Yahoo! Maps – a rival for Google?
Since Google released their maps/local product on the world, they have really ‘owned’ the space. The Ajax word has become common parlance, and we’ve all learned to expect a lot more from our browsers. Microsoft brought out their Live Local product in an attempt to rival Google. It is good – slicker than google, but …
opening pandora’s box
Do you like music? Then you will love Pandora. Visit the Pandora website – type something in: an artist name or song title and this site uses the collected wisdom of the Music Genome Project to serve up a stream of music related to your selection by an array of musical attributes – “genes”. The …
the best iPod bug I’ve ever seen!
A colleague called me over to look at their WinPC today. She plugged in her iPod and it appeared in iTunes, but the name and music were not hers! It was like it was someone else’s iPod. The music played, everything worked, but it was 6Gb of someone else’s stuff! Spooky!!