Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Mike, a friend of mine, forwarded me this link about the new family world envisaged by Intel its recent developer forum. The author comments that a colleague of his saw it like this, Wolfgang’s issue with what was presented is that our future family life would have little in common with a typical scenario of…
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For those of you running Movable Type 3.2 here’s an online web-based tool to generate a new stylesheet for your blog. Ingenious. See – Movalog : Movable Type Style Generator. Via Elise at Learning Movable Type: Movable Type Style Generator.
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I’ll be tinkering with stylesheets and the blog layout over the next week or so – primarily to reorganize a few things, but also to fix some problems with Internet Explorer. If you arrive and things look different/broken don’t panic – try again later. I’ll try and make changes in increments (and offline) but sometimes…
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IBM helps Firefox reach disabled | Tech News on ZDNet IBM will donate 50,000 lines of code to the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox Web browser to make it friendly for people with visual and motor disabilities, Big Blue said Monday. Sounds like a useful addition to Firefox. Now if I could only get it to reduce…
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A couple of interesting links off Wired News. Firstly Wired News: Google’s Book Scanning Hits Snag comments on the problems Google is having convincing the existing publishing community its digital library attempt is a good thing. Really, what did they expect would happen? And secondly Wired News: Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs talks…
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One of the significant issues facing people trying to make sense of data is getting the data in a format that can be analysed – particularly if you’re trying to use data from disparate sources. This following article notes an open source attempt to overcome this problem. See Wired News: Analyze This: Combining Data In…
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STUFF : TECHNOLOGY – STORY : Apple buys NZ domain as download wars begin – Apple acquires www.itunes.co.nz Guess we’ll have to wait and see though.
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Grabbed these two books off the shelf in the public library because the covers and titles looked interesting. They’re definitely “coffee table” books – glossy, well laid out, striking design. Contentwise they’re light and fluffy (and being books about the web a little dated). What is really, really good about them is the showcase of…
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This week I’m trying to sort out the broadband dilemma that we’ve been landed with. We have our (primitive) broadband connection with our ISP (owned by Telco #1) and have our phone account (local and toll) with Telco #2. This has worked well in the past because ISP #1 has been good to us and…
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This book looks interesting. Engaging Technology in Theological Education: All That We Can’t Leave Behind by Mary E. Hess. Link to Mary Hess’ faculty overview here. Link to additional resources here. (Including links to the Religious Education and Challenge of Media Culture Project and her dissertation “Media literacy in religious education: Engaging popular culture to…