Category Archives: General

Chalkboard Paint makes a chalkboard anywhere you can paint. Some ideas on what to actually do with the stuff on the walls. I like the idea of a calendar made of the stuff.

This is a simple template to use SoyLatte in Mac OS X 10.6 and have it appear in the JavaPreferences system. You need to copy all of the contents of the /usr/local/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3/ directory into the directory contents/Home (inside the package), … Continue reading →

A vision of a technology future that is almost magical in its fluidity and the absence of any obvious equipment. This is what the future should be:

Spotted recently in a technical forum (which shall remain nameless): Your answers are useless. Thank you anyway. I found answers on my questions from another source. Although I still don’t know what the final answer was, alas…

Real cocoa buyers, who are probably chocolate manufacturers, are getting tired of excessive speculation in the cocoa market; they’ve threatened to move from London to unspecified US cocoa futures exchanges if something isn’t done to improve things: Telegraph Article (Third … Continue reading →

back in my day, we didn’t pay to win a video game … we simply played them well Marketing crazy

It’s the day of the UK general election. It’s your democratic duty to vote! If you don’t vote, you can’t complain about the government we get. So please vote 🙂

Warburtons Bread Advert It made me laugh, anyway. (On their own site too)

I didn’t know this before but it definitely seems to work. SVG is more compatible for web pages, though this could be useful for embedded webkit apps. From High DPI Websites

In the nature of the European cooperation, I propose that the European Union should give out prizes to people who can speak significant numbers of european languages. Perhaps 1 million euros for a person speaking all of the EU significant … Continue reading →

A thought occurs to me (although I don’t do iPhone development). One possible approach to multi-tasking on the iphone might be to allow a background thread that complied with some sandbox requirements to execute with access to certain apis only. … Continue reading →

Given that I delete my browser cookies fairly regularly, it would be useful to be able to divide them into categories.Then I could delete marketing and tracking cookies without affecting more important login cookies. Some categories I would like: 1) … Continue reading →

Valve have announced Portal for Mac. Played it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and have been wondering how best to play it at home. From April I’ll be able to play it (and lots of other … Continue reading →

So another one of these articles, shock horror, some public body has spent thousands of pounds buying hot drinks for their staff. Clearly, the whole lot of them should be hanged  … except, if you look at the figures quoted, … Continue reading →

Happened to be in a major supermarket’s electronics section the other day and was told that the “3” network offers the best mobile broadband. Although oddly all of the O2 retail hardware boxes were sold out, plenty of “3” boxes … Continue reading →

We recommend using 1920×1080, 60Hz(Except for 19/22LU40**, 19LU50**, 19/22/26/32/37/42LH20**, 32/37/42LG21**, 32/37/42LG33**, 19/22/26LG31**, 42/50PQ35**, 42PQ65**), 1360×768, 60Hz(Only 19/22LU40**, 19LU50**, 19/22/26/32/37/42LH20**, 32/37/42LG21**, 32/37/42LG33**, 26LG31**, 50PQ35**), 1024×768, 60Hz(Only 42PQ35**, 42PQ65**) , 1440×900, 60Hz(Only 19LG31**) , 1680×1050, 60Hz(Only 22LG31**)for the PC mode, this should … Continue reading →

Newspapers are in trouble, everyone seems to think this. Most newspapers have seen circulation declines of their paper editions and the web doesn’t pay that well for advertising. What to do? Lots of obvious ideas like charging monthly fees or … Continue reading →

This is a brilliant video of Senator Al Franken of Minnesota drawing a map of the United States entirely freehand and  including all of the states. YouTube Video (via NGM)

Fortunately, we were able to re-solder the USB connector back to the PCB and continue testing. [Ars Technica] How many websites would bother doing this, and more to the point how many websites have reviewers who could do this?