Actually, The Times puts a different slant on this article (Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop), but it is a very interesting account of the problems that Nicholas Negroponte faced and overcame to produce a laptop which at the moment actually costs $188, but which will be cheaper – . . . → Read More: The history of the $100 laptop
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Short video illustrating some of Otlet’s ideas Paul Otlet (1868 – 1944) proposed many of the ideas which have been implemented in the world wide web – including the idea of a library of information much like Wikipedia – and actually implemented his ideas in the form of the Mundaneum, back in 1910. The . . . → Read More: The Mundaneum – the forgotten precursor to the internet I have been tearing my hair out, fighting technology, at home this last week. Firstly, I have been trying to get a decent wireless LAN connection from the office to the cellar. The problem here is that the floors in our house are made of reinforced concrete (and, I suspect so are at . . . → Read More: Troublesome technology This is amazingly good value for money. I bought a Fujitsu Siemens SnapScan S510M this week. The scanner is small, as you can see in the photo, where it is sitting next to the Mac Mini. When it’s not in use, it’s even smaller as the sheet feeder and the paper tray . . . → Read More: New toy Maybe, one day, it will be possible to run Palm applications on an iPhone. Style Tap have produced a proof-of-concept demo. It may seem strange to want to do that, but some people have Palm applications which they would like to continue to use. You can use Parallels or Fusion to run Windows . . . → Read More: Palm OS on an iPhone Bookpedia – you can also, of course display the catalog as a list! Until now I have for many years used Readerware to catalog our (1100+) books and (800 or so) CDs, and Delicious Library to catalog our much smaller collection of DVDs. The rational behind that was that Readerware is cross-platform (Windows, . . . → Read More: Good software to catalog books, CDs and DVDs In the past, I’ve tried a number of times to get a reasonable conversion of a bitmap graphic to a vector graphic. I have never been satisfied with the results, and have ended up creating the vector graphic from scratch. Now there is a free online tool, developed by Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence . . . → Read More: Good bitmap to vector graphic converter Vaibhav Sharma highlights a useful feature of recent-model Nokia phones on The Symbian Blog. The phones come with an application called “Switch” which is intended to allow purchasers of a new phone to transfer (switch) the content of their existing phone to the new one. In fact it can do a lot more than . . . → Read More: “Switch” for the Nokia E- and N-Series phones Jeremy Clarkson, the BBC Top Gear presenter, is regretting mocking the fuss made about the British government losing CDs with millions of sets of personal data on them. He published an article in the Sunday Times which included his bank account details, claiming that concerns about identity theft were exaggerated. Someone promptly transferred Ł500 . . . → Read More: Better not publish your bank account details How some software manages to get on to the market is a puzzle to me. For the last 3-4 days I have been struggling to download the Nokia Maps which, if I could download them, would allow me to use Nokia’s navigation software with our new mobile phones without having to buy a . . . → Read More: Dodgy maths (Update: Not) |
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