Mar 27 2009
I've got the key – do you have the secret?
A good set of keys these – god knows what they are all for?
Apparently there is a bike shed – I had no idea – may have to get a bike!
Archive for March, 2009
Mar 26 2009
New home
Get the keys to my new place tomorrow. Big day.
Back on the ladder after 5 years struggle through a mixture of crap flats and poor parts of town.
It’s been a long time coming this place. The last part of my new life will soon be in place.
How quickly things can change. I dared to hope both would work out. They did!
Mar 23 2009
Money shot
Spent the most money I have ever spent in my life today! If we still wrote cheques, I’d be telling you I’d written a stonkingly fat cheque!
Still its going to a good place, bricks and mortar – perhaps not as safe as houses used to be.
Back on the ladder after 5 years struggle in crap accommodation and questionable neighbourhoods – let the good times begin…
Mar 23 2009
links for 2009-03-23
Mar 21 2009
London 10 Quirky Places
Stuck for something to do in London – some fun ideas here:
Nice to see that Wellcome Collection is one of them.
Mar 18 2009
links for 2009-03-18
Mar 18 2009
Ofcom on Twitter
Mar 18 2009
iPhone OS 3.0
Today Apple gave a preview of what to expect in the 3rd version of their iPhone OS.
Finally, we have cut and paste and up to 100 other features, some large some small. Highlights are:
–In-App Purchases: When using a paid Web service, such as reading the Wall Street Journal or subscribing to a sports or gaming service, you can choose to maintain your subscription or membership without having to leave the app itself. The new OS brings up a service that links to the site you’re using and conveys the payment.
–Cut, Copy and Paste: Amazing as it seems, this relatively simple-sounding tool has not yet been available on the iPhone. With OS 3.0, users will be able to select type, photos or graphics (from a Web site, for example), copy them, and then enter into another application — such as e-mail or a text message — as needed. It took a while longer to develop, Forstall said, due to security concerns.
–New Peer-to-Peer capability: Users of the new OS will be able to link up with other iPhone users via stereo Bluetooth; thus, they will be able to browse another user’s iPod collection of music and videos, and even stream them to their own iPhones. The fellow iPhone users have to be within range of Bluetooth, of course. Other users will be able to play games against each other (think kids in the back of a car on a long trip); no Wi-Fi network is needed. All the iPhones will find each other automatically.
–New Push Notifications help scale out business apps: This is a unified, generic service for all platforms and developers, and it is located in Apple’s own server farm, Forstall said. The ESPN app that sends out 50 million news alerts per month is a good example; it can scale out with impunity using this capability. Lots of other applications are expected to follow suit.
–Improved Maps: In partnership with Google Maps, Apple has made the core of the map application available free to developers, so they can consider using them in the applications they intend to build. Included are all the features currently in Google Maps: regular map view, topographic view, and street view; annotations and location tracking is also in the SDK.
–Accessories: More connections to iPhone accessories will now available. For example, stereo sound-balancing and other, more granular fine-tuning features can be added to the iPhone when it plugs in to a portable speaker set to play music.
–Johnson & Johnson’s Lifescan application for diabetics can be a real time-saver. A user can keep track or his/her dosage history and schedule, and calculate the amount of each dosage based on what he/she is eating that day — plus factor in the kind of physical activities the user is experiencing that day. All are major factors in getting an insulin dosage correct.
