Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Just erased and reinstalled everything on the iBook to get over the wobbles it was developing at the end of the thesis writing. In the process found these links I’d saved earlier. Ashley X links: WIRED Blogs: Bodyhack – Brain-Damaged Girl Will Stay Young Forever Parents defend decision to keep girl a child – World…
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Needed to print out some Finder windows today on the iBook and remembered that it was a feature that used to be in Classic and earlier but got removed. *Sigh*. Luckily the following came to my rescue: Macworld: Mac 911: Printing Finder windows SearchWare Solutions : Products : Print Window
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One of the local PC magazines came with the full version (both Vol. 1 & 2) of Atari Arcade Anniversary Edition for free, which I duly installed on the PC today. My children, upon discovering it, are rapt with the likes of Centipede, Asteroids and Missile Command. However, the game of the collection for them…
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Recent BBC World “Click” programme had a slot on strange USB devices for your PC. See BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | USB talk. Just right for Darren over at planet telex » One of my new toys….
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As I’ve edited my thesis, and used a variety of Mac OS X the bizarreness of the Home / End keys in OS X has driven me mad. In some apps they go to the top and bottom of the document, in others to the beginning and end of paragraphs, and in other apps (e.g.…
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This article talks about how intelligent software agents might transfer between various “bodies” in order to achieve certain tasks. So you own “personal assistant” software might follow you around the house, making itself available as it incarnates itself in different technological artifacts. Spooky, possums. See Wired News: The Seoul of a New Machine. Resonates with…
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Vernor Vinge’s presentation of the technological singularity back in 1993 (PDF here) talked about the scenario where human intellect is augmented through better communications networks and human-computer interfaces. Here’s a recent article in the Boston Globe that picks up on the “intelligence augmentation” (IA) within contemporary settings. See Souls of a new machine – The…
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Interesting article on how the new Zune’s media sharing facilities add DRM to creative commons media. See Wired News: Zune, Creative Commons Don’t Mix.
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Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, on the initiative to create a discipline (or inter-discipline) to examine the the social aspect of the Web and the Web’s impact on society. A kind of new “Web (Social) Science”. See Berners-Lee, universities launch ‘Web science’ initiative – Internet – News – ZDNet Asia. As…
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Hat tip to Jonny Baker for this link to the Guardian’s focus on Web 2.0. See Weekend Magazine web 2.0 special | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited.