Archive for the 'technology' Category
Ubiquity for blogging
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 27th Aug, 2008
Oh wow! .. I just realised how powerful Ubiquity is for the blogger. Say for example I’m blogging about the Isle of Man. Just highlight the term, invoke Ubiquity and I can get:
A map of the Isle of Man
Isle of Man
Testing if this works …
Hmmm .. inserting into the post didn’t seem to work, the [...]
Natural Language in your Browser
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 27th Aug, 2008
How great would it be if you could just tell your browser what you wanted and have it obey you? Well, that’s just what the guys down at Mozilla Labs are working towards with their prototype of some new technology they called Ubiquity. It tries to address the issue of having to open multiple web [...]
Extra leg room? Inflight-Internet?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 20th Aug, 2008
photo credit: brixton
The number of optional extras that airlines can bolt on to your flight has been increased today. American Airlines (in the US) has unveiled their new inflight broadband service. Yes, they’ve been talking about it for a while now, but today it is a reality. The service is offered by AirCell, under [...]
Twitter by SMS is no more (in the UK)
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 14th Aug, 2008
Have you ever used Twitter by SMS? You can tell the service to SMS you whenever there’s a new Tweet you might interested in. At least you could until today. Twitter has decided to close down SMS sending from the UK, citing cost as the main issue. They report that as they were unable [...]
Where are you left if the Cloud goes down?
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 12th Aug, 2008
The web was ablaze yesterday with people complaining about the latest outage of Gmail. It started with AnaisAmy asking for help on Twitter as she had problems getting to Gmail. Withing a few minutes quite a few people were posting Tweets to the same effect. Turns out Gmail had a real outage (they needed [...]
WordPress Redirection upgraded
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 6th Aug, 2008
One of my favourite WordPress plugins: Redirection, has just been upgraded to a brand new version. It’s a complete rewrite and while the functionality is similar to the previous version, the code has been broken down into more modular sections and the UI has had a major overhaul. So what does the plugin allow [...]
How Cloud Computing is changing the world
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 4th Aug, 2008
Thanks to Techmeme, I just came across a great article on Business Week that talks about Cloud Computing, what it’s all about and what it means to all of us. It’s a great place for someone who hasn’t been exposed to all this “computing in the cloud” or “Software as a Service” terminology to [...]
