Technology
DreamSpark
I just discovered (through a friend) a program that Microsoft are running called DreamSpark. Basically, it means that their giving away full versions of their developer software, to students (like me :evilgrin: ) completely free. No cost.
The website has a strange URL, but the design is quite funky, it was designed by 9 Star Research, [...]
Flickr
I now have a flickr account, which can be found over here. I’m still going to use GP for my photos, primarially, but I’ll upload some of my favourites onto flickr, it means I can use the recent photos that are on the right, which I like, and I can add it to my aggregate. [...]
A CSS Colour Sampler
I was doing a bit of design hacking earlier, and searched the internet (in vain) for a CSS sampler. You know the concept - you type in a hex code, and it tells you what colour you’re using. Well, that’s the second time I’ve looked, so I made my own, as you do. Found here, [...]
Firefox 3 Breaks a Million Downloads
Less than four hours into it’s download day, Firefox 3 smashed the 1 million downloads barrier, which is reported to be more than the downloads of Firefox 2 on it’s launch day.
There is a widescreen up in the Mozilla HQ which is live (ish) monitoring the downloads, although it seems that with the sheer rate [...]
S3
Today, I spent a bit of time playing with S3 (simple storage service), a service run by Amazon. I only really thought about it recently after I helped someone I’m working for to make videos run from it.
The main bonus of S3 is that it’s cheap, and unlimited. You only pay per what you use [...]
BingoDisk
A few days ago, I signed up for BingoDisk. It’s a nice Sun based storage system, which support webdav, which is access as a drive on my pc, as well as http access and all that stuff. I think it’s pretty nifty.
I bought the Nano plan, because it’s simple, and has all the space I [...]
I’ve Got A Tumblog Aggregate Thingy
I twittered about it a few days ago, but I’ve only just gotten around to setting it up how I like it, so I’m going to post about it now.
Through Alex King’s aggregate blog thing, I found tumblr - a nice micro-ish blog type thing, which can act as an aggregate (I think it’s pretty [...]
Google’s New Favicon?
I’m not the first to notice this, nor will I be the last. However, notice it I did. :P
Google changed their favicon recently, to a tiny little g, while previously it was an uppercase G. Not that bigger change, and on most websites, it wouldn’t even have been noticed. This is Google, though.
I’m not sure [...]
