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Piezoelectric fans. No, I'm not going to say it. No really I'm not. OK... These look cool.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog
One should always have something sensational to read on the net...
Thought for the day: the iPod is now usable as a contact list manager as well as an MP3 player. My suggestion for the next step: make it an outline browser. You could create arbitrary outlines in something like OmniOutliner or Radio and carry them around with you on the iPod. The user interface is superb for that.
Some outlining programs have a handy to-do list option. Each node has a checkbox, and an item is automatically checked when all its sub-items are checked. While entering text on the move would be a pain, checking and unchecking things is something you could reasonably do on an iPod.
Checkboxes would probably require changes to the iPod software itself, but simple browsing could be done initially by creating fake MP3 tracks in an appropriate directory hierarchy. That's how the contact list idea started. Should be easy. In fact, if somebody gives me an iPod, I'll implement it...
A nice quote from the Queen Mother in Sunday's Telegraph:
"Travel by helicopter? I think the chopper has changed my life - rather as it did Anne Boleyn's. "
Two surprises today.
The first is to discover that my new phone, a cheap and unassuming Ericsson T39, actually has a builtin POP email client and can be configured to send and receive email via my regular account over GPRS, which I'm starting to believe is therefore worth the rather high costs charged here in the UK.
Setting the phone up for a non-standard connection isn't entirely trivial, though, and the second surprise, when I called my service provider, Orange, was to get through immediately to somebody who understood my rather technical questions and knew the answers. And this was just before midnight. Amazing!
[Original Link] Here's the thread on Slashdot.
[Original Link] John Naughton's article on the closing of the lab where I've worked for the past six years.
[Original Link] A nice story on John Naughton's weblog.
[Original Link] the press was covering the imminent demise of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot. I can't believe it's only a year. So much has happened since then. Nothing quite so momentous, of course :-)
[Original Link] This describes how to modify the Internet Explorer resources so that the IE location bar uses Google by default for searching. You just type a location of '? woody allen', for example, to search.
I did this several months ago and use it every day; so much so that I'd forgotten it wasn't the default behaviour. If you use IE on OS X, try this. Small hassle. Big rewards.