I mentioned earlier about the PSP having a pink screen. Apparently that was only an April issue – the screen changes colour based on month. Dave Taylor is listing the following colours: May 2005: Dark Green June 2005: Purple July 2005: Aqua August 2005: Sky Blue September 2005: Violet October 2005: Gold November 2005: Light Brown December 2005: Red I’m glad – pink is definitely the wrong colour!
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There’s a conference at Microsoft today on Social Computing. David Weinberger has posted notes about a presentation from 6 teenage girls and their use of technology. It would be interesting to get a comparison with the UK usage. I’m not sure that they would necessarily believe text messaging is too expensive; the cross-network SMS has been around a lot longer here and texting is more the norm that in the US. When I work there, I have to change habits, and not assume that texts about being late to next meeting will get through! “Blogging was big last year, but…
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Here’s a link to a T-Mobile page that is a fun way of passing the time – if I could get it to work. You upload a picture and, through the wonders of technology, it ages the photo. SO you can predict how you may look with after the ravages of time. I go this via Blogdex…given it’s still an IP address and I can’t find the link on the main site, I wonder if it is supposed to be live?
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Looks like the Scottish Parliament is moving forward with technology – it is contracting BT to finish the provision of broadband to 97% of all households; the remaining 3% in the Western Isles being covered by a local project. (via BBC). Maybe this is one of the attempts to keep the population..the BBC were reprting this morning that Scotland is undergoing the largest depopulation in Europe.
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I got to play with a PSP for about 5 minutes today. Much fun, display quality is superb and I can see the gaming experience will be great. But one question – why is the default display pink?
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I commented when the first round of Google maps came out and it was US only. But we’ve finally got there – Google Maps UK is ready, along with Google Local for tracking down all sorts of stuff. And it ties into SMS
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I use Firefox as my default browser. Makes problems when the developers we use tend to only have IE, but we’re getting there. I’ve got all of my team here using it as default as well. So it’s good to see the news from Boing Boing that Firefox is used by 38.4% of all visitors, number one in their chart. (Chart from Boing Boing)
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Reading New Scientist yesterday there is a great report into how Skype is being used for podcasting. The article quotes from the Skype Journal, giving a positive review of this collaborative approach to broadcasting
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Flickr are making good on thier promises and giving away goodies to Pro subscribers. My account has been extended by one year and I’ve got 2 free Pro accounts to give away.
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I love google maps…and now they’ve discovered the rest of the world, at least via Satellite. They have added satellite imagery to the site, with all the saem cool sliding and zooming, but a global version, to various resolutions. So I can take a closer look where I have just booked a holiday
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The BBC are going to commission a second series of Doctor Who after just one episode being shown on TV. Reading about the leaking of the first episode onto the internet, they commented: The BBC has trialled a download service for some of its TV content, but there is no indication yet as to when the Interactive Media Player will launch. Other broadcasters are probably hurrying their own plans because until they launch, there will be plenty of individuals willing to fill that hole. And today, I see that Microsoft have started a service for commercially downloadable video content. Should…
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..is definitely ‘transparent’ screens for you Mac. It keeps popping up in multiple blogs on the aggregator. Take a look here or here for more info.
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Old communication channels are embracing the new. There was a time in many countries where the church was the centre of a person’s community. This appears to be less so now, but religion is managing to use newer technology to get the message across. Godcasts are becoming one of the more popular flavours of podcasts; religious themes on your media player of choice, according to this story on the bookofjoe. In another use, Adrants are reporting that ministries are using comparisons with Halo2 to spread the word, as the storyline is apparently like a Bible story. And to bring us…
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I like this tool from at Metaatem, pulling outimages of the letters #flickrWords .flickrImg { float: left; }
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BT have quietly upgraded my connection speed over the last week and it’s now sitting at a 2Mb, or just under it when I run some tests. I’m not complaining on the speed, they’ve even dropped the price for a few months.. Unfortunately they’ve put a cap on monthly usage of 30GB of download. Don’t think I get close to this, but we’ll see.
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I found a link to the NASA WorldWind application on the Scobleizer yesterday and have been having fun playing with it. Great ways of looking at the world..what would be good is some time lapsed images so you could see changes to coastlines.
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Google Maps….where’s the rest of the world? Or when will they bring it online. The tool itself – love playing with it.
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Just seen that UK Online will be offering a 8MB service from my exchange from around March. Pre-registered for it..so need to wait what the cost will be. It’s around the time the BT contract runs out so it looks like perfect timing
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Spent time yesterday listening in to a conference at Harvard on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility. I’m going to have to go back and read the transcripts to check up, but one area that I found strange was the discussion about links and their use in blog posts. There seemed to be a feeling that all links need to be credible, to be validated somehow, and if you link to an unvalidated post, then, somehow, that damages your credbility. One argument for me is that ‘credible’ news organisations, either print or media, don’t always do this anyway, why should bloggers, whether…
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liked the look of the mini mac that was announced by Apple today..especially as it is already for sale on the the UK Apple store site for shipping in 2 weeks. Could definitely see the attraction in getting it for the parents to reduce the support I need to do. However, the grandparents – they’d break anything. But support over Xmas this year for them was showing them how to send an email, much easier to cope with then the normal stuff they have. By now, i think they now have a regular account with the store to fix things.