The BBC can be an open source for all of UK plc | Media | The Guardian
‘In the corporate world, Facebook, Apple and Google have launched platform services that allow external developers and companies to build services using their code - but the BBC is uniquely placed to use those same principles to create a cultural and commercial resource for the nation.’
Building a Custom Lifestream Website with Sweetcron - NETTUTS
SweetCron Themes - Free & Quality Themes for SweetCron
Well, only one so far.
Give Me Something To Read
‘Need something to read? Enjoy these selections from among the most frequently bookmarked articles on Instapaper.’
patrickrhone / journal » Blog Archive » Design Decisions: patrickrhone.com 2.0
I’ve been linking to excellent examples of...
Ever since I bought my lovely iPhone 3G, I’ve only really missed one thing about my Nokia N95: the ability to easily put files on the ‘phone, so that I can email them later. I don’t need to do this often, but when I do it tends to be quite important, in a ‘copy is missing, and it’s half past four on the day before it’s due to run’ sort of a way.
At long bloody last, this bog standard feature has arrived courtesy of TextGuru. The app has garnered quite a bit of attention thanks to it being a rather well-designed, easy to use text editor, one that includes the holy grail of missing iPhone features: cut and paste. I’m not terribly excited by the text editing features, to be honest—if I want to write and edit text, I’ll do it on...
LifeStream WordPress Plugin | David Cramer’s Blog
Similar to Action Streams for Movable Type, a Wordpress plugin that gathers your activity from other sites (Twitter, Flickr, &c.).
iLeopard
iLeopard is a free theme for Mac OS X that looks gives the look and feel of iTunes 7 to all the interface
Google on Google Chrome - comic book
Google’s browser explained in a rather lovely comic book.
Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project
Details on the new browser, in non-comic form.
macosxhints.com - Sync with .Mac (MobileMe) from the command line
I Have A Dirty Sack | Ask Metafilter
Innuendo-laden AskMe thread. Made me LOL.
Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 9
I’ve been avoiding downloading the demo just in case it’s ace (I’m sure it is for coding types, but...
Liliputing: Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables
The E900 looks to be the best of the bunch. Though I do like the Elonex One, on the grounds that it’s a bit bonkers (I can see myself grabbing one off eBay for a few quid in a couple of years).
EeeUser ASUS Eee PC EeePC Forum / eeecontrol 0.2 ( fan and fsb control )
GUI for overclocking, fan control on the Eee PC. Bit buggy, apparently, but less faff than the alternatives. (Though I’m not really convinced overclocking is worth doing, unless you’re playing games or otherwise using your Eee in a silly way.)
DigiCamHistory
The history of the digital camera, and other kinds of camera too. Dangerous: I came this close to buying a Quicktake 200 after reading it. (Which would’ve required buying an ancient computer...
Thanks to my compulsive tendency to install every vaguely intriguing application I come across, and a bad habit of tweaking stuff without really understanding what I’m doing, my Eee PC went a but wonky recently. So I did the F9 trick, which resets the Eee to its default state—a great feature, that—and worked out what I really need on the thing.
So, here are the steps I took to turn a stock Eee into the perfect machine for writing on the move.
Enable Advanced Desktop Mode, because Easy Mode is just silly.
Add extra repositories, from which to download applications not provided by Asus.
Install SSH server, so you can connect your Eee from other computers: sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Install Subversion, to keep all your files in sync: sudo apt-get install...
Flickr + Del.icio.us + Weblog + Dad = Book - Submit Response
Backtagging posts on my weblog, I found this old story, which made me smile!
I Own A Flat Now on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Bookmarked so I can tell how long I’ve lived here.
ExpanDrive 1.03
No more .DS_Store files littered everywhere, standardised Command key combinations.
kottke.org is ten years old today (kottke.org)
I think I found kottke.org via plasticbag.org, which I’m fairly sure was the first weblog I read. (I’m a n00b, the first post here was made on 10/10/01)
po-ru.com: BBC iPlayer fix hacked again!
Cat and mouse. I wonder if the Beeb will just give up.
I CAN HAZ dot COM
Not unamusing URL-shortening service.
BT Business Broadband - Terms and conditions - Fair Use Policy
Incredibly vague, and there...
