Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Playing around with the news feeds for the site. Should be no hassles, but let me know if there are.
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Brief news article on the recent call by some NZ psychologists for addiction to video games to be recognized as a psychiatric disorder. See Video game addiction ‘disorder’ – doctors – Stuff.co.nz. Update: US Wired News – AP News: Too Much Video Gaming Not Addiction, Yet. The American Medical Association are less concerned, and won’t…
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In addition to their recent TVNZ On Demand service (which doesn’t allow downloading on Macs – though you can play streamed video), TVNZ are now moving to post content direct on YouTube. See TVNZ to post content to YouTube: Stuff.co.nz Now, if only my G3 Apple iBook could play embedded/streaming YouTube and TVNZ On Demand…
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I like the genre of Steampunk – which fuses the historical setting of 19th century Europe with advanced technological visions. Think steam-powered spaceships or Sherlock Holmes stories with mechanical computers thrown in. Elements of it crop up in comic books – the 2000AD series Nemesis was set for a while in a alien society that…
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Paul Roberts posts like a “true believer”. (It’s all about computer preferences, you see). See staring into the distance::as far as our eyes can see » Computer-geek heaven (i) – Getting under the surface of the Mac. Related links: Lam, Pui-Yan. “May the Force of the Operating System Be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit…
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Felt the need to move to a cleaner, less busy blog theme and so have moved to Tarski · An elegant, flexible WordPress theme. Had a few hiccoughs with author name of posts etc. needing tinkering but it seems to work now. I like how the stylesheet modification are moved to a separate stylesheet that…
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Open Source Mac – Free, Open-Source software for OS X is exactly what is says it is – “A simple list of free, open-source software for Mac OS X.” Nevertheless, it’s a helpful wee site.
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Over the years I’ve used lots of different text and word processors to support writing I’ve needed to do: nroff and similar on UNIX systems for writing documentation View on the BBC Microcomputer in the 1980s Something on an Apple II+ which only displayed 40 characters per line WordStar, MS Word and WordPerfect under MS-DOS…
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Microsoft has released a beta verison of a converter for the new format of Office 2007 documents, to allow them to be opened in Mac versions of Office (most recent patched versions of MS Office 10 and 11 for OS X). It’s not perfect, and it needs 10.4.8 Mac OS X, but it might be…
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MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab release a new programming language, Scratch, aimed at teaching computer programming concepts through play. See With simplified code, programming becomes child’s play – The Boston Globe. Of course, you don’t need to have a computer to teach computer science and computer programming concepts. See Computer Science…