Singularity Conference gets 'head'ed off at the pass
If you're a web developer / designer or into the web in anyway then you're going to want to check out the <head> web conference that takes place October 24-26, 2008. <head> is a bit different than your regular conference, The conference website describes it like so:
The premise for <head> is simple: instead of making you come to the web conference, let's make the web conference come to you.
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Published: 2008-09-04 18:57:49 Edited: 2008-09-04 18:57:49
Tags: conference,singularity,head,web development
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A List Apart Web Design Survey 2008
I took the "A List Apart Web Design Survey" last year and it was well worth doing as it was the first effort to try and establish a picture of the working conditions of people who are involved in building or maintaining websites.
You can read the results of last years survey at www.alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults, you can download the findings of the survey as a PDF document.
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Published: 2008-08-12 16:28:42 Edited: 2008-08-12 16:30:05
Tags: web design, survey, a list apart,
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Review: Apple Composite AV cable for iPod Touch, iPhone, Nano etc
I just bought myself the Apple composite AV cable for my iPod Touch so that I could hook it up to my TV to watch BBC iPlayer programmes. At first I thought the £35 price tag was pretty steep, but seeing as I was at the Apple Store in Glasgow I thought I'd treat myself to something!
On closer inspection though I saw that it isn't just an AV cable but it also has a USB cable which plugs into a dinky little power supply which comes with both UK and North American power supply connectors, so basically it can be used to charge your iPod and also means that you don't run out of power whilst watching programmes on it.
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Published: 2008-06-03 20:30:53 Edited: 2008-06-03 20:33:50
Tags: apple,iPod,iPhone,av cable,iplayer
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Dropbox: Putting a human face on Amazon's S3 storage system
I've recently been checking out Dropbox, I'd come across the website for it before and checked out the screencast showing it's features and it looked pretty good, a few people on Twitter mentioned getting invites to the invite only beta program so I eventually managed to get hold of an invite to try it out for myself.
I've been on the look out for an off-site backup system that makes use of some kind of distributed 'cloud' based storage system such as Amazon's S3. I've tried Mozy and also JungleDisk and they both worked well enough but I didn't really take to them. Both of those options do have the main feature I was looking for in that they offer a cost-effective way to backup lots of data online, additionally Mozy's Mac client in particular has a great strength in that you can tell it which files and settings you want it to backup such as iCal data etc.
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Published: 2008-05-30 00:29:33 Edited: 2008-05-30 00:41:23
Tags: dropbox,amazon s3,online backup,cloud backup,mozy,jungle disk
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Evidence of the hidden "features" of Vista and Windows Media Centre?
Way back in February 2007 I wrote a blog post called "Windows Vista: Beneath Aero's transparency hides some future 'surprises'" where I pondered some of the features of Vista designed to appease Hollywood's desire to control how people use media on their computers.
More evidence of these features were revealed recently when users of Windows Media Centre in the US who intended to record an episode of Gladiators found that the recording was blocked because of a broadcast flag known as CGMS-A in the TV signal which WMC understood to indicate it should not be recorded. NBC, who aired the show, said it was mistakenly added and that it wouldn't happen again. Microsoft have claimed they will work to make sure this doesn't happen again. However, many people are skeptical about this, in an article on Ars Technica Eric Bangeman wrote:
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Published: 2008-05-29 21:57:27
Tags: vista,drm,trusted computing,microsoft,nbc,broadcast flag
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