UPDATE: Turns out, I wasn’t wrong. I was just clairvoyant . WorldMate is working on an Android version of its application. Hrm. It appears I was wrong about a WorldMate application for Android. I managed to find an unused download page (by typing “android site:www.worldmate.com” in Google) that listed Android as an option. I assumed [...] [Posted: 30 Jul 2009]
Standing out in the crowd: my OSCON keynote [Via Cecily] My BlogHer Experience Part 1: SwagHer. The swag invasion is part of the reason why I haven’t attended since 2006. I get it: sponsors keep conferences cheap (yay!). But being marketed to at every turn can be a real turn off. Would the real social [...] [Posted: 29 Jul 2009]
Bokodes, a project of the MIT Media Lab. Bokodes are very similar to QR Codes, which are standard in Japan and becoming more popular in Europe. Like QR Codes, bokodes require a camera and software to decode the data. But unlike QR Codes, bokodes are much smaller and can store much more information. A typical [...] [Posted: 29 Jul 2009]
Want to use a web app suite, but give control over your data’s fate Google or Zoho? Take a look at OpenGoo. OpenGoo is a mash-up of sorts, combining several open source projects and packages — such as Reece Calendar, Slimey (presentations) and FCKEditor(text editing) — into one suite. [Via OStatic] [Posted: 29 Jul 2009]
Theresa Carpenter Sondjo of Appfrica has an excellent post about working offline, particularly in cybercafes or locations where an internet connection is not available. Mac users can replace XAMPP with MAMP.* For portable apps, there’s the OS X Portable Apps suite. If you need an offline blogging tool, you can try the ScribeFire extension for [...] [Posted: 28 Jul 2009]
Lots of news in tech, some of which is a bit crusty around the edges. Update on the Compatibility View List in Internet Explorer 8 I still think this idea sucks all kinds of rocks. Adobe releases open source media framework for Flash Related: Dreamsocket. How to take screenshots of your Android based phone from [...] [Posted: 24 Jul 2009]
From yesterday’s post on the New York Times Bits blog, we get the news that the “digital divide” — in this case, internet access — is being narrowed by mobile phones. But the common characteristics of those two characters — they are both middle-aged and white — may no longer be a fitting stereotype, at [...] [Posted: 23 Jul 2009]
From a New York Times blog post about happiness, Danes, and expecting too much: Danes seem to know instinctively that expectations kill happiness, leaving the rest of us unhappy un-Danes to sweat it out on the “hedonic treadmill.” That’s what researchers call the tendency to constantly ratchet up our expectations, a sort of emotional inflation [...] [Posted: 21 Jul 2009]
Day old news because I am fresh like that. Critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 The vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling the JIT in the JavaScript engine. This post tells you how to do so. 3D CSS transforms available in Leopard via WebKit nightlies The feature was already available in Safari 4 for Snow [...] [Posted: 15 Jul 2009]
Kongoni Nietzsche released This marks the first official and stable release of the Kongoni GNU/Linux distribution after several development releases. Kongoni is a South African Linux distribution designed to be used in an African technical context. For example, the development team released the source code instead of binaries to save on file size for low-bandwidth [...] [Posted: 13 Jul 2009]