Greenflame

Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand

Category: Digital Technology

  • Vinyl-MP3 Hybrid

    The best of both worlds – vinyl and MP3 files. Article here about a UK music label that releases music in vinyl format (for the DJ market) coupled with access to non-DRM high-quality MP3s of the music purchased. See U.K. Music Label Creates a Vinyl-MP3 Hybrid.

  • A thing well made

    I’ve been skimming through John Waters’ book The Real Business of Web Design over the past couple of weeks. It’s been a refreshing change to read a book that talks about web design from a perspective that isn’t bogged down in the ‘how’ of what technologies will be used, but rather concentrates much more on…

  • The Politics of Map Making; Katrina and Google Earth

    The Politics of Map Making; Katrina and Google Earth looks at how digital geography intersects with politics and the other representations of the world we construct. Interesting reading.

  • WordPress Theme Generator

    The WordPress Theme Generator is a helpful tool for quickly putting together a WordPress theme by selecting template options. Seems like it might be useful. Related link: Movable Type Style Generator

  • The Turing Archive for the History of Computing

    If you’re interested in the history of digital computing, especially the early days around the 1940s and 50s, then check out AlanTuring.net: The Turing Archive for the History of Computing based out of the University of Canterbury in NZ.

  • Desktop E-Mail vs Web E-Mail

    I’m a big fan of software applications that concentrate on doing one task in an exemplary fashion. Probably a throwback to my UNIX script programming day when I’d connect lots of small single purpose applications together to work on my data. Which is why this interview caught my eye (Mozilla: Why Desktop E-Mail Crucifies the…

  • Learning through digital games

    Picked up a copy of Marc Prensky’s “Digital Game-Based Learning” today from the public library to have a skim though. I’m interested in the historical development of the digital games. Recent related links: Wired News: Today’s Homework: Make Good Games MSU Serious Games Design Masters Program Greenflame: Computer games as vehicles for political discourse

  • Blogging as spiritual formation

    Paul’s posted a copy of his Refresh article BLOGGING – A CREATIVE WAY OF EXPLORING SPIRITUALITY & SPIRITUAL FORMATION? over on Prodigal Kiwi(s). Well worth having a look at. Connects also with the following article published a couple of years back in Stimulus (NZ journal/magazine): Bednar, Tim. “Blogging: Report from a Grassroots Revival.” Stimulus 12,…

  • Free Mac fonts

    Saw this today, which points to a download from Apple that comes with a variety of free typefaces. Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Get some free fonts from Apple:

  • A History of Microsoft Windows

    With the arrival (finally) of Microsoft Vista Wired has produced A History of Microsoft Windows, a series of screen shots that track through the history of the Windows operating system. Apart from Windows ME, which I’ve only used once or twice, I’ve used all of these. (I’m pretty sure I’ve used Windows 1 and 2,…