Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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A couple of times I’ve found it useful to use Marc Prensky’s concepts of the digital native and digital immigrant to make points in things I’ve written. As one reviewer noted of one of these pieces, these are helpful concepts but can’t be realized as absolute categories, which I agree with entirely. The adoption or…
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I was wondering yesterday, with the Wifi and Safari built into the iPod Touch, whether you could blog from it. It appears you can, and there’s a WordPress plugin to format posts for the iPod Touch/iPhone screen size. See WordPress for Ipod Touch (iWPhone)
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If you’re publishing stuff on your blog or web site and you’re concerned about other people misusing your content then ProBlogger has a useful little article on how a terms of service page can help with that. See: Nip Problems in the Bud with a TOS Page.
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A couple of useful web development and design articles I came across the other day. A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman (Nov 20, 2007) Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time…
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In what seems now like a lifetime ago, I took a fourth year computer science paper at the University of Canterbury in data encryption as part of the first year of my MSc studies. My memories of the course are a little blurry, though I do remember lots of math (yuck!) and bits of computer…
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I like databases, which means that when I see that there’s a new iTunes-style interface database, Bento, coming out for the Mac (by the same developers as FileMaker (Thanks, Matt)) I’ll sit up and pay attention. See Bento: Mac’s New Database App Is iTunes for Control Freaks: It’s only available for Mac OS X 10.5,…
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A really interesting segment on last weekend’s This Way Up on Radio New Zealand National looked at professional video gaming in South Korea and its public following. You can listen to the audio here (MP3) or here (WMA). The best way is probably through the podcast feed here though.
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An article (useful mainly for the links) that talks about how to set up a default set of useful applications (Office, email, browser) to carry around on a flash disk should you need to borrow a computer and still have the tools you like to use. Web-based applications are okay, but if you only have…
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In the past month or so I got rid of the old stereo turntable that broke and thought that it would never need to be replaced. I may have been premature in my assumption. Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD’s Coffin Testing Vinyl CDs: Groovy Up Top, Optical Down Below | Listening Post from…
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I’ve seen the ads, my daughter has mentioned them in passing, and I’ve suffered major “sticker shock” when I saw how much they sold for, but somewhere along the line I hadn’t picked up that they could serve as a mechanism for regulating who a person could chat to online (using the proprietary ‘Secret B…