November 2007
131 posts
iTunes: Album art does not download properly →
Ahh, so this is why iTunes doesn’t download the artwork for some of my albums.
Bug 203927 – Add ability to read from Mac OS X... →
Apparently this patch allows you to integrate Thunderbird with the Mac Address Book.
Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting... →
I found myself wanting this feature just a couple of weeks ago. I was searching for skype phones and lots of spam sites were appearing at the top of the list. I wanted to mark them down in my searches.
Impressed with quite how far ahead, of the traditional telcos, Skype is for billing (and, actually, most other things).
Ruby and Rails on Emacs Screencast →
A screencast covering the use of Emacs for development. I think there’d be quite a lot of time investment required before I’d be anywhere near this level.
Oops, 1.6 minutes per digit. Stoopid Chris.
15 minutes speaking to a 3 agent so that they can accept my PAC code. So, 15 mins for a 9 digit code, or about 1.6 digits per minute.
Google Code Blog: ZXing 1d/2d Barcode decoding... →
Google Print Ads are using 2d barcodes to encode information - this is cool. We’ve also talked about it as a way of linking to product reviews from within print.
DRM-Free Classical Music: Deutsche Grammophon... →
Selling DRM free music (even of the classical variety that I have very little time for) can only be a good thing.
Why Customers Write Reviews | Bazaarblog →
A press release from Bazaar Voice. I’ve left a comment asking if they’re going to release the raw data.
Human DNA as C code - GNU Project - Free Software... →
I saw this ages ago and thought it was brilliant. I can’t remember why but I remembered it yesterday and just found it again. The best bit is the final note…
Backing up my music to S3 using Jungle Disk, having already backed up 5GB of Photos. S3 + Jungle Disk = Brilliant.
Apple - Support - Discussions - iChat Jabber... →
This thread seems to suggest a way to use iChat Server with Jabber *and* pre-populate everyone’s contact lists.
I found it - Ctrl H - mouse no longer required when bookmarking in del.icio.us
Toward a Discussion of Morality and Code →
Some very admirable goals laid out by Thoughtworks.
google webmaster blog - links with video from matt... →
CRM gets personal →
I think this is the third or fourth post I’ve read this morning that mentions eating your own dogfood. That’s cool.
Happy Birthday to Wesabe! →
“I think the one thing that has made Wesabe better for people than anything else is that the people who develop the product use it and often need it just as much as our members do.” Maybe that’s why I find it so useful…
The case for the community CEO (+ 8 things you can... →
I think Jason Calacanis is saying a *lot* of very sensible things in this post. I think we could learn some stuff from Jason here. I’m also coming round to the idea of group lunches - something I definitely wouldn’t have contemplated in the past.
Robert Scoble reviews the Amazon Kindle →
Robert Scoble reviews the Amazon Kindle, “Itâs obvious that they never had this device in their hands when they were designing it.” Apparently Amazon didn’t eat their own dog food when designing the Kindle.
ProjectVRM Blog » Can VRM fix DRM? →
“…and the option to do any number of things, including re-distributing it for pay that would get us both a slice of the take.” I find this idea really powerful but can’t quite work out why.
Chatting to my brother using our new walkie talkies - a cool toy and much cheaper than a phone call.
@bensales - I haven’t had chance to try my wireless modem on the train yet. In fact I don’t have the phone working as a modem yet..
A Couple Ways to Debug mod_rewrite ~ or maybe... →
A nice use of mod_rewrite to output some of the variables you have access to.
My Amazon Wishlist →
My human friendly URL to my Amazon Wishlist. Now, if only there was a little webapp that would allow you to manage all of your tinyurls…
Assuming that the Information Commissioner accidentally left out ‘don’t give your data to the govt’ - http://tinyurl.com/2rcpx3
YouTube - Rough Weather Sailing - BT Global... →
An awesome video of sailing in heavy seas, bookmarked by James. I imagine this is similar to to your Sunday Sailing sessions isn’t it James?
Apple - Support - Discussions - Bonjour or Jabber?... →
I think this starts to explain why bonjour doesn’t work over our (L2TP) VPN.
Just experienced iTunes automatically pausing when accepting an incoming Skype call. That’s cool.
ProductWiki, unbiased product reviews and... →
This is smart. A bit like wikipedia for products. Their 3 person start-up is doing things that we’re not managing to do…
MySpace.com - EBONY BONES! - The Neverland Ranch,... →
Recommended by Adem - I actually quite like whatever the song is that’s playing on this page
Emailing lazy SEO consultant. Getting angry.
Wondering why mail.app gets confused with which message body belongs to which header every so often - re-adding my imap account sorts it.
@beng - http://tinyurl.com/yqsrg3 ?
Action Controller: Exception caught →
Broken reevoo.com page
Wondering why firefox is displaying in very few colours.
Hmm. Spoke too soon. Magical box just likes to stay red instead of blue. Now using Vodafone 3g USB modem.
Woohoo - Turned magical Interweb box off for 15 minutes and now all is working.
10 minutes for my blog post to appear at number 3... →
chrisjroos posted a photo: This is cool.
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem... →
Dave Winer weighs in on shorter URLs, including the discovery that Amazon have a fair few short URLs already, e.g. microsoft, wii, apple, ipod. I’d love to know how many people visit these URLs.
The LouderVoice Blog - Text Us Your Loves and Your... →
Quite a cool little feature from Loudervoice - send your reviews by SMS
An example of using my del.icio.us permalinks - http://tinyurl.com/2jvpvp
Playing with Jing - it’s cool.
counterflo.ws: Incremental Improvement →
A good article bookmarked by James about incremental improvement in software development. According to this chaps list we have definitely ‘moved backwards’ at reevoo
Ross Barkman's Home Page →
Paul mentioned that this site might be useful in getting my skypephone to work as a modem on my macbook.
The Margate Exodus →
Filmed just around the corner in Margate.
Exodus →
Filmed just around the corner in Margate.
Hmm, Safari has just stopped working. That’s odd.
Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac... →
I just watched the introduction screencast for this software. It looks a lot like Skitch.
chrisroos: Wanting a little widget that I type a phone number into and it tells me the cheapest way to call it (from either skype or mobile).