Archive for July, 2003

So Amazon’s got RSS, you say. But how do I add a feed to my news aggre­ga­tor? Easy peasy, Paul Bausch at OnFo­cus has put together a nice, lit­tle Ama­zon RSS Feed Builder. A lit­tle rough round the edges, but very nifty indeed.

This is so true — and quite funny. How the hell does Microsoft man­age to hang on to stu­pid user inter­faces for ages? And a good point is in the com­ments for the posts: When teach­ing senior cit­i­zens about com­put­ers (which is a truly great tool for this spe­cific group of peo­ple), actu­ally you should insist on using Macs. Only thing is, loads of web pages, appli­ca­tions etc. only work prop­erly on Win­dows and old peo­ple haven’t really got the time to go all polit­i­cal in choos­ing an OS, have they…

When­ever that Netscape qual­ity feed­back agent is pop­ping up from Mizilla Fire­bird it crashes the Fire­bird, closes all win­dows and it then takes for­ever to reopen. But how do I pro­vide the feed­back explain­ing that…hmmm…

Spæn­dende pointe: Tablet PC vil være oplagte til at ændre vores måde at formi­dle teg­ninger på…

This arti­cle, Evo­lu­tion­ism Pro­pa­ganda (which isn’t exactly new, but only came to my atten­tion today), sums up how Apple is a tool of Satan and that Open Source is just another word for com­mu­nism — just to name a few. And while not actu­ally being fun­nay at all, there’s some pretty inter­est­ing amus­ing in there; the great enemy is, of course, the evolution…oh oh…
And from the front page:

For the safety of your soul, do not be tempted by the lure of impulse rock chip repair from strangers in park­ing lots. It may say free, but it could cost you your soul! If you need your wind­shield fixed, go to a qual­i­fied Chris­t­ian repair shop.

Amazon.com announces RSS feeds on cat­e­gories and searches. A great idea, of course, allow­ing cus­tomers to sub­scribe to their areas of inter­est, mak­ing it pos­si­ble for Ama­zon to ‘adver­tise’ new prod­ucts and the cus­tomers to buy them as soon as they see it. Now I’m just wait­ing for Amazon.co.uk to do the same… Hmm, maybe you could sub­scribe to people’s wish lists…

Inter­con­nected is try­ing to fig­ure out, what the web’s favourite colour is — MMS a pic­ture of yours or watch the result.

Inter­est­ing The­Fea­ture arti­cle fea­tur­ing Eric Pau­los and his idea to leave RFID tags on pub­lic places.

Pau­los wants to add an addi­tional layer of wire­less dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion over this exist­ing layer of phys­i­cal mark­ers. This is what he calls the Dig­i­tal Patina. One of the first exam­ples of this, he thinks, will be the use of RFID tags to leave mes­sages for other peo­ple who visit a pub­lic space. 

A step on the way to apply­ing URIs to every­thing, an inter­est­ing way of track­ing and enhanc­ing the user expe­ri­ence of dif­fer­ent pub­lic places, and what’s best: He plans on just devel­op­ing a dig­i­tal tag­ging sys­tem and hand out tags to peo­ple and see what uses they cre­ate for them. “Build it and they will play with it.” Which is a phi­los­o­phy that goes for a lot of things… [via Purse Lip Square Jaw]

Nilesh on some­thing I too thought of the other day: At the moment I actu­ally got more mem­ory in my phone than on the CF card I use in my cam­era and on the mem­ory bird I’ve get­ting used to car­ry­ing around, just in case. And to top that off, the phone’s got Blue­tooth which is more than I can say of the cam­era and the mem­ory bird; they’re sooo old skool, demand­ing wires and stuff. So if that cam­era could just do some proper shots, then I wouldn’t really need the bird, the cam­era and my Palm. And then, all of a sud­den, I can actu­ally live with the fact, that the phone is bulky and pretty damn ugly… Quite nice when you think about it, always hav­ing the oppor­tu­nity to wire­lessly trans­fer­some doc­u­ments, some mp3s and some videos to your pocket.

This blog speeds the usual stuff up a bit: I quit. [via Pix­el­sur­geon]