50 quid revolution?
[Original Link] Robert Cringeley says he's found a major disruptive technology. It's a $70 wireless router. But that's not all... Thanks to John for the link
The musical sound of the cash register
[Original Link] Apple's iTunes Music Store is selling over 3 million songs a week. And it's still only open to people with a US credit card...
All must have prizes
[Original Link] Three things that get my goat:
- The government's constant striving to push as many kids as possible into higher education, (which is nothing whatsoever to do with keeping unemployment figures down),
- the inflation of A-level grades (because everybody's suddenly got so much cleverer over the last ten years)
- The ridiculously low salaries of UK academics
Three years ago...
[Original Link] Jakob Nielsen was talking about .NET taking over the world because it would enable micro-payments.
Reset Nokia 6600
For anyone who, like me, has been typing 'reset nokia 6600' into Google...
I like my 6600, but the software does have occasional glitches. Something happened on mine which stopped it syncing reliably with my Mac using iSync, so I wanted to try and restore it to its pristine out-of-the-box state. There are lots of tips out there on the web about how to do this - see here for example - but the most thorough format I've found so far can be achieved by going to Tools/Settings/Phone/General and choosing 'Orig. Phone Settings'.
Still doesn't delete everything, though... let's see if it works...
Bother. No. Still crashes.
Follow-up, some months later: I eventually solved this by installing FExplorer and using it to delete all sorts of files I didn't recognize. Somebody had pointed out that the Backup utility built into the Nokia was dying with the same AppArcServerThread error, and when I had deleted enough files to make that work, sure enough, iSync was working again.
Noble Caesar
[Original Link] As Government advisors call for curbs on Caesarean sections, two mothers defend the procedure in this interesting (and somewhat amusing) article.
PDA personalities
A catalogue that came through the door the other day is advertising the Palm Zire handheld.
"Grab the indispensable Zire 21 handheld from palmOne - it's got as much personality as you have!"
I think I object to that...!
More about Content Management Systems
The PostNuke CMS was a fork from the earlier PHP-Nuke. Both of these are still active and widely used, but the PostNuke creators have split off again to do a major (and much needed) rewrite of the system, now called Xaraya.
This continual splitting process is either one of the greatest strengths or greatest weaknesses of Open Source software, depending on your point of view. Either way, Xaraya looks much better under the skin than its predecessors, and is starting to gather accolades, but is badly in need of some really nice documentation like Typo3.
Suprise comeback?
[Original Link] Maybe Netscape isn't quite dead after all...