I have just subscribed to Humyo.de (they also have an address at Humyo.com for english speaking users). Humyo offer an interesting service. You can backup 10GB of your local data to their servers for free, or you can pay €59.50 a year for 100GB of storage and also use a utility that you get . . . → Read More: Humyo doesn’t like long file names
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The newspaper industry has taken a deep breath and decided to jump into the waters, putting their content behind pay-to-read walls on the web. I think they are going to get badly burnt unless they cooperate closely with each other. I’ve mentioned before, that we both use mind maps – they are a great way of sorting out ideas for a presentation or sorting out what work needs to be done in a project, before you get as far as producing a project plan. Recently I have been looking for a tool . . . → Read More: Good tool for documenting ideas Brilliant beginning to this version of “Africa” – quite tropical. (via Think or Thwim) I read Molly Wright Steenson’s blog girlwonder on an irregular basis – she has lived in Italy, India and several other places – which is pretty unusual for an American, and she’s interested in modern architecture, various aspects of using the web, and design. Which are all things she blogs about. She published . . . → Read More: A mechanical precursor to e-mail The Daily Mail had several pictures of recent work by John Pugh today – they really are worth taking a look at. No pictures here, as I no longer publish pictures unless I’m absolutely sure that I’m not potentially infringing copyright. Follow this link to the Daily Mail, and if it gives you . . . → Read More: Trompes l’oeil by John Pugh It annoys me that governments in many countries charge you an involuntary license fee for public service TV, whether you actually watch it or not. This might have been a good idea many decades ago, when the infrastructure for TV broadcasting needed to be built up. But these days, when public TV largely duplicates . . . → Read More: Keep your hands out of our pockets The Boston Globe often has fabulous pictures in its “The Big Picture” section. Their latest series is no exception – just take a look at these!
Unsuccessful print using Adobe Acrobat Reader The German Post and their parcel service, DHL, have a great internet service – you can print your own stamps online (Just don’t try to use the internet address printed on the stamps – it doesn’t exist! It seems to have been a temporary glitch – the . . . → Read More: Adobe, Mac and the Post don’t get on Getty Images was the company which cost us over 870 Euro, despite our engaging an intellectual property lawyer to defend ourselves, for using a 180 x 90 pixel image on another of our web sites. I can confirm that our experience with Getty was in line with the cases described in today’s Guardian, . . . → Read More: Getty Images slammed for hounding people |
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