First go at Popfly update

Following on from some very helpful comments i’ve found the embed code Since i’m not hosting my own wordpress blog i can’t embed it directly so just click HERE (you’ll probably need to install Sliverlight first though!) David Overton has also done some screen grabs of how to create a mashup so go check that out

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First Impressions of PopFly

*-* Updated *-* Looks like you can’t view the pages unless your on the alpha too! I’ll take a look to see if this is true or not *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*  After the annoucement of Popfly a couple of weeks ago i was keen to see it in action Today i received an invite to the alpha so

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Joystick Nostalgia

There is an article over on CNET about the greatest game controllers of all time Obviously it’s all down to opinion so thought i’d add some comments of my own Atari 2600 While this is a classic i actually preffered the Atari CX24 joystick as it was so comfortable to hold SNES I would go as

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New Tool To Battle Spam? – DKIM

The BBC is reporting about industry backing for a tool to battle spam It’s called DomainKeys Identified Mail and works by using digital signatures. The organisation that is setting this up can be found here Nice idea in practise but first thing that sprang to mind was “What happened to Sender ID & SPF?” There is

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Stop Being A Smart Ass

As way of apology i thought i’d link to Matt McSpirit’s blog Why the appology? I left a comment on his post “SCVMM – the worlds longest acronym?” saying that SCVMM isn’t actually an acronym RAM, RAID (pun not intentional), ROM and BIOS are all examples of acronyms as they form a new noun Random

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Inkless Paper

I’m quite interested to see how this works out. A new company called Zink, embed dye crystals actually within the paper and then use heat to set the colour. It means that printers are effectively a little bit bigger than the paper and you can put it anywhere What about a mobile phone that prints out

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I Want One Of These!

I vaguely remember reading about this sometime ago but stumbled across it again today The Optimus Maximus Keyboard replaces each button with a tiny led display. This means you can change the image on each button to anything you like. It will even do moving images! Very cool They are currently taking pre-orders for December 2007!!!

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