iPod Shuffle Engraving
By Thomas Henwood · September 28, 2005 · No comments
Now you can get your iPod Shuffle engraved too. Yey!
Easy Geek Quiz, anyone?
By Thomas Henwood · · 1 comment
I saw this on the BBC website, and quite frankly it is the most ludicrously easy quiz that I ever took. Most of the questions are so monstrously easy that every nerd ought to know the answers, except one World of Warcraft question, which only sad freaks should know (yes, I got it wrong). Does playing World of Warcraft make you a geek? or just sad? I see a debate coming here…
-Via BBC News Technology
iPod is not a recent innovation
By Thomas Henwood · September 22, 2005 · No comments
I saw this on the BBC website, and it seems that the idea of having a portable music player, in several colours, and wth funky looks (that puts Creative out of the window) is not new. In fact, it originated in 1954 with the release if the Regency TR1 transistor radio (no, I could find a manufacturers website). This was a small funky, portable, battery powered radio, with a speaker rather than headphones, it came in four flavours and arrived just in time, for the new “teenagers” to listen to the equally new, rock ‘n roll music. So it seems, nothing is ever new!!!
-Via BBC News Technology
Get Well Soon Flickr
By Notanerd Anymore · · No comments
Aww. Best wishes to our good friend Flickr, who seems to be having stomach troubles.
The 3 flavours of Open Source
By Thomas Henwood · September 21, 2005 · No comments
I reckon that there are 3 flavours of open source:
Nice
These are programs like Audacity and The Gimp. They are easy to use, do the job fast and efficiently, and yet are fairly powerful.
Hard
This is stuff like Blender 3D and Jahshaka very powerful, sometimes even hopelessly so, with an unfathomable interface to boot.
Scary
This is the really terrifying stuff, the stuff that you have to compile from the source. That is enough to scare me off, i mean who, other than a developer or a major geek (or even an Iron Geek) would be able to do that, I mean it might be a great piece of software, but it seems a shame that no one will ever be able to use it. You just have to hope that someone will create a .exe installer for it, or give up.
Of iPods in colour casings
By Thomas Henwood · · No comments
It seems that the public favour iPods with casings in colours other than white. I think, that we already knew that, with the success of the iPod Mini, but just to give us extra proof, it seems that the black iPod Nano is much more popular than the white one. Could this be because shiny white i losing it’s charm, and becoming, heaven forbid… ubiquitous… quite probably. Maybe Apple will take the hint and start producing Nano’s in other colours like red, green, blue… Then maybe I’d like them but then again they’re still pretty pricey.
via Engadget
1 Billion Nokia Phones
By Thomas Henwood · · No comments
Nokia sold it’s 1,000,000,000th phone earlier this summer, said the company today. It was a Nokia 1100, sold to some guy in Nigeria.
They’ve come quite a long way from their first phone (a 15 kilo car phone), although it does seem fitting that in an age of 3G, their Billionth phone was a basic black and white (at least it wasn’t one of those wretched 3410’s)! 1Billion, just think of all those annoying Nokia signature tones there must be in the world!
-via Yahoo
Firefox more vulnerable than IE
By Thomas Henwood · September 20, 2005 · No comments
It seems, that Firefox is more vulnerable than IE, with 25 security flaws to IE’s 13. However, this means very little seeing as:
1. Hackers are more likely to target IE because it is more popular.
2. Flaws are fixed faster in Firefox.
3. Firefox is just so much better anyway!
So there you have it, why Firefox is more less secure and yet, still better than IE.
via- Digg (among others)
Update: Firefox 1.0.7 has now been released, which should make it more secure than IE again, for the time being.
Free Downloads
By Thomas Henwood · · No comments
Are you ever wondering if you can find that free app that you need? Probably, I do it all the time, I’ve found some really useful ones, like Bink Video Tools and Audacity. These, lists could come in handy, they have lots of really usefull downloads on.
79p forever
By Abby Emery · · No comments
Steve Jobs has refused, on the request of several major record companies, to change the prices on the iTunes music store. Check this for more.
via digg
Mmmm…Memory…
By Abby Emery · · No comments
You can’t eat iPod shuffles; Apple confirmed this soon after the release. So? you thought, no one could be stupid enough to eat an iPod shuffle. Clearly people are stupid though.
A drunk guy walked into a phone shop and, after a short disagreement with the sales representative, ate the phone’s memory “so no one would get [his] personal information.” No lie…
via Engadget
Placeopedia
By Thomas Henwood · · No comments
Placeopedia is, yet another Google Maps page. Except that this one allows you to find wikipedia entries relating to the places on the Map, with entries marked as the familiar Google Maps flag thingy.
Firefox Wallpapers
By Notanerd Anymore · · 1 comment
http://3couleurs.blogspot.com/2005/01/wallpapers-firefox.html
Google Blog Search
By Notanerd Anymore · · No comments
Following up on my post on Jason Calacanis’s Blog Search petition, Google have now introduced a beta Blog Search tool. Check it out at blogsearch.google.com. It’s also been sneakily released under the Blogger branding at search.blogger.com.
