Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog
One should always have something sensational to read on the net...
There's a good article on the BBC web site about the Ndiyo project and the hardware we're using from Newnham Research.
The London Underground lines overlaid on a satellite image. (Click image for bigger version).
Ooh. Now, I really want one of these.
I have a lot to do in my gadget competition with John since he bought his Prius, but I think this might just allow me to overtake!
The very latest (2005) PowerBooks have a motion sensor built in to them. It will park your hard disk heads if you drop or bump the machine. But that's not all it can be used for....
I mentioned the Adobe/Macromedia merge a few days ago. There's a nicely sarcastic translation by John Gruber of the FAQ that Adobe issued about the merger.
I'm often worried these days that something I see and find interesting on the web won't be available if I ever go and look for it again, or it'll be in some premium-rate archive and I've never yet stumped up the money for any of those. (Publishers, are you listening?)
Mac users, of course, can capture anything as a PDF using the built-in facilities of the Print dialog. But if you want to start doing some really nice things with your PDF files, you want to play with PDF Services, a little-known but rather handy feature of Mac OS X. This MacWorld article will get you started, and there's more information on Apple's site here.
The potential of this is starting to come home to me as I play more with a preview of Tiger, which will instantly index the text in any document you save to your disk. Including PDFs. It may not be long before I automatically capture the image of every web page I read.
Ah, nostalgia - I came across this TechnoFile article by Jim Bray talking about the Broadband Phone project we did back in 2001/2. I'm sure I knew about the article at the time, but it had slipped my mind.
It was a fun project, the technology worked really well, and it is, alas, now confined to the annals of big-corporation history. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose....
...is mightier than the sword!
found on Andrew Duncan's WeblogGoogle Maps for the UK. Very nice.
Here I am, and here's how to get to me from Stansted Airport and here are some nearby pubs we can visit when you arrive.What else is cute about Google Maps? More info here.
