Interesting Things

Interesting links for week ending November 6th

Richard Bradshaw — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:01:18 +0000

Here are some links that I’ve found interesting: Predicting exact monthly UAH anomalies up to the year 2109 Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine Dodge Viper logo is an upside-down Daffy Duck. Web Inspector Updates Why It's a Bad Idea to Send Huge Files by Email Periodic table Damning interview with Baby Einstein founder Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines Chrome [...]

Interesting links for week ending October 23rd

Richard Bradshaw — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:06:39 +0000

Here are some links that I’ve found interesting: Yahoo! OpenID and OAuth: iPhone Optimized! A Couple iPhone Apps Named “Twitter” Are Tricking Users Ad Placement Fail Treating User Myopia Faith healing on the US taxpayer Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party [Video] How To Upgrade From XP To Windows 7 In 4 Easy Steps Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google [...]

Video of ChromeOS Early Build

Richard Bradshaw — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:51:09 +0000

Just a quick video made of the ChromeOS build found on the chromium.org server. It’s run on Ubuntu in a virtual machine running on Snow Leopard. Used Quicktime X to record it, which turned out pretty well I think! Not much in there yet, but good to see that parts of it are on the way! Related [...]

Interesting links for week ending October 14th

Richard Bradshaw — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:03:44 +0000

Here are some links that I’ve found interesting: The State of Solid State Hard Drives – Fugitive gives the game away with Facebook updates – Tesco boss raps school standards – Help us nail spammers – Building a jQuery/PHP Powered Chat Room – Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really – Tim Berners-Lee’s One Regret Regarding the [...]

Some interesting links for October 13th

Richard Bradshaw — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:00:08 +0000

Here are some links that I’ve found interesting: Building a jQuery/PHP Powered Chat Room – Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really – Tim Berners-Lee’s One Regret Regarding the Web – New in Labs: Got the wrong Bob? – Lightly Edit Images Easily With Acorn [Mac only] – Introducing Google Building Maker – Small But Rapidly Growing [...]

Interesting Links

Richard Bradshaw — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:49:29 +0000

Here are some links that I’ve found interesting: ‘New’ Jackson song penned in 1983 Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale A Lack Of Common Scents STATS: Facebook and Twitter’s Growth Flattens Why Desktop Touch Screens Don’t Really Work Well For Humans Super Mario cupcakes Random PostsJanuary 24, 2008 -- Secrets of the EeeJune 9, 2008 -- Web 2.0 … The Machine [...]

Improve the typography on your Mac in 5 seconds.

Richard Bradshaw — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:21:28 +0000

As you are surely aware, Microsoft ripped off Helvetica to create the Arial font. It’s not as nice, and doesn’t look nice on screen at all. The image below shows some of the differences. As you can see, the ends of each letter aren’t lined up properly, they are all at weird angles. Though Helvetica is the [...]

How to know that your PHP is borked before your clients kill you

Richard Bradshaw — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:50 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but every now and then I make a quick change to a PHP script, don’t bother checking it, then a few hours/days/months later either realise that I missed a vital semicolon, or mismatched a bracket. This started to get on my nerves, as now this has happened a couple of times [...]

How to use Twitter as an error log

Richard Bradshaw — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:47:17 +0000

Sure this has been done before, but I had a brainwave today – why not use Twitter as an error log for web apps? I already have error handling on my functions, so surely this shouldn’t be a difficult addition… turns out it’s not. First, you’ll need a twitter account. I’d recommend setting one up, then protecting [...]

Using Texter to speed up web design/development

Richard Bradshaw — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:21:17 +0000

Lifehacker’s Texter let’s you define short macros that allow you type a little, and get a lot back. I’ve not used this before, but am constantly finding myself typing the same bits over and over and over, so this is a very neat and helpful little tool. Basically, you just define a command, then specify what [...]