I just wrote a message to our telecom provider in Spain to tell them that we have changed our bank account. This is their reply. You wouldn’t believe it was sent by a company specialised in providing internet and telecom … Continue reading
You can opt out of being shown internet ads by Microsoft’s business partners here: http://choice.live.com/advertisementchoice/ and http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ The process for the last link is not exactly user-friendly as Microsoft runs a lengthly cookie test in your browser before allowing you … Continue reading
Impressive act by Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales using 7 iPads to promote Stockholm.
I was modifying the styles for this web site recently, and after testing the change locally I uploaded the style sheet to the production server. Afterwards I cast an eye on the site to check everything was updated, and was … Continue reading
I just noticed – Google has added a recipe search item to their home page. You can filter the results by ingredients, cooking time or by calories. To get included in the results, sites need to tag their recipes using … Continue reading
Aggressive “dissing” of your own product. Microsoft has set a goal of getting the proportion of Internet Explorer 6 users reduced to 1% and is actively advising people to stop using it. Currently, around 12% of internet users, mostly in … Continue reading
When our house in Xàtiva is finished, Ruth intends to carry on working for a time in Frankfurt. Which means we will be living partly in Germany and partly in Spain for a quite a time to come. Indeed, we … Continue reading
The Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab has come up with a way of marking objects with a 3mm wide bar code that a normal digital SLR camera can read at a distance of over 4 meters (a … Continue reading
If you don’t like being tracked (i.e. having advertisers being informed about which sites you have visited) when you are visiting websites, you can block some 20 or so ad-serving companies doing this (including some big ones, like Google, Yahoo … Continue reading
There have been a number of reports in the last days of iTunes app developers apparently accessing other iTunes users’ accounts to buy their applications, to increase their rating on iTunes. People have had bills of $100 or more generated … Continue reading