May 30, 2008
This little video camera is interesting.
It’s about as big as a point-and-shoot digital still camera, records at 640 x 480 at 30fps, gets around 6 hours of battery life out of good AA batteries, has a USB connector to plug straight into your computer and costs $150 US.
Perfect for the YouTube generation, I guess, although I can’t see how it replaces the movie setting that’s on my Pentax Optio W20 still camera (which is also 640 x 480 at 30fps), or many other digital still cameras, for that matter. I’ve been experimenting with the W20’s capabilities recently, so maybe I should try the video mode to see how it turns out.
The Flip’s cute, there’s no doubt about that. www.theflip.com
Posted by Marty in 60 seconds, Video, Web & Tech
Just enabled Search on this site. Not a big deal but a web site’s not a proper web site without a search box, so it had to happen.
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting, Web & Tech
May 27, 2008
Somewhere in my clicking this morning I came across this site, which is dedicated to respecting the Ampersand.
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If my friend Jeremy is reading this he’ll be banging his desk & wailing about how we should forget the frickin’ ampersand & focus on the interrobang, although he calls it a questclamation mark.
I agree with him. Why the hell doesn’t the interrobang get the respect it deserves, goddammit?! (See, we’d use them all the time if there was a key on our keyboard.)
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting, Random thoughts
May 22, 2008
Last year I predicted that free public wifi would be all over the place in Australia’s cities by Grand Final Day 2008. (Part of that prediction was hope, given that I wanted to make the most of my iPod Touch, but most of it was a fair dinkum prediction.)
Well free wifi’s not quite everywhere yet, but we’re getting closer. In fact the list of hotspots in Melbourne’s CBD is edging closer to the ton, so I thought it was time to make myself a list that I can store on my Touch to help me find the hotspots when I’m roaming around town.
It didn’t take long to work out that to do that I needed to create a web page, browse to it, then leave that page open in Safari so that I can view it even when I’m not connected. The list is sourced from Only Melbourne and freewifi.com.au/melbourne, but those sites only order the hotspots by name, which I think is silly. I reordered it by street instead, so when you’re standing there on Little Collins Street wondering where the nearest hotspot is you can quickly check the list and find it.
So here’s the page -
Melbourne CBD Free Wifi Hotspots
It’s optimised for iPhone/iPod Touch. Browse to it, then leave the page open. Simple.
I’ve also created a Google Map for this:
View Larger Map
Obviously you’ll only be able to get to the Google Map if you’re already connected, but it’s there anyway.
Feel free to add some value by leaving me a comment…
Posted by Marty in Apple, Web & Tech
May 21, 2008
Jeremiah tweeted this morning that “the conversation is moving” to Friendfeed, so I signed up for a look.
It’s a lifestream app, meaning that it aggregates your publishing activity in one place. This is what I’ve already set up my blog to do (for blog posts, Flickr photos, del.icio.us links and Twitter tweets), so in that sense Friendfeed is simply my blog with the Friendfeed look and feel.
But that’s only one side of the story. Friendfeed also aggregates my friends’ publishing activity in one place (once I tell it who my friends are). It’s the Facebook news feed, the Twitter Following page, the Flickr Photos From Your Contacts feed, your RSS reader etc etc on a single site.
Great in theory, but I’m not sure if it’ll work for me in practice. Time will tell.
Self-explanatory, probably
Adding my Twitter handle
The Friendfeed
Posted by Marty in Web & Tech
May 20, 2008
Posted by Marty in Moblogging
May 18, 2008
Posted by Marty in Moblogging
