I was there! at WE05 when Tantek Çelic had just finished his session and was about to take his first question… the fire alarm started! Here we are piling out onto Harris Street, Ultimo in front of UTS, and yes, that’s me in the yellow sleeved t-shirt next to the tree. Told you I was …
Category Archives: tech
I have seen the future…
and it is full screen, full motion and it should scare the bejeezus out of the traditional television broadcasters. An organisation with a solid background in peer to peer networking, participatory culture have just released a beta of a product they call DTV. This is internet television. At the moment it is only available for …
Nikon’s encryption bungle…
I was amazed by recent reports about Nikon encrypting the raw files in their high-end digital cameras… what were they thinking? The glare of publicity has been aimed at this story since Thomas Knoll, the ‘creator’ of Photoshop attacked Nikon for the practice, which appears to impose some ownership by Nikon over a photographer’s creative …
the social bookmarking experiment…
I’ve recently joined the wave of web users to try online bookmark tools – specifically del.icio.us – known as a ‘social bookmarking’ tool. Del.icio.us is simple and, for what it does, it works very well. The social aspect is the real revelation though. You bookmark a page and see that others have also bookmarked it, …
Send a link from Safari
I love Apple’s Safari browser. There is a level of polish not even available in the wonderful Firefox, however, I’ll admit it’s sometimes a little short on functionality. One that annoys me is the lack of a quick ‘send link’ function to email a URL to someone. All fixed now! Drag my ‘mail this‘ link …