Links from 2008

Allows you to view your S3 online storage, upload, download, set permissions, share with friends and more.

"A simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding information about audio recordings in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML". Can't believe I missed this microformat. To integrate.

“Inspired by the endless joy of a talking GPS system on board a breakdown truck (& some high quality gold russian vodka), Wevie explain their own uniquely broken-down geographical position from a vast perspective.”

The 12" features a pumped-up version, Mouse on Mars mix, German language version, acapella and samples so you can build your own bollard.

Hipness is another thing you wouldn’t have seen on the list 100 years ago. Or wouldn’t you? What it means is to know what’s what. So maybe it has simply replaced the component of social class that consisted of being “au fait.” That could explain why hipness seems particularly admired in London: it’s version 2 of the traditional English delight in obscure codes that only insiders understand.

— Paul Graham, Cities and Ambition

Lazy quoting; this is an excellent essay.

"I found a way to print using the Canon MP470 wirelessly with Airport Extreme and Leopard." Hurrah!

smoke#12: a london peculiar

“… a love-letter to London, to the wet neon flicker of late-night pavements, electric with endless possibility, and the soft dishevelled beauty of the city’s dawn… to the overheard stories and unexplored histories, the facts and the fictions, the accidental poetry and fugitive art of graffiti-slashed suburban stations and rain-splashed shopfronts… the out-of-shot lives half-glimpsed from a train window, or from a phone number scrawled on the back of a Travelcard, dropped on the night-bus stairs…”

Holiday cottages with style throughout Britain - cottages for self-catering holiday rental in the Cotswolds, the West Country, the Peak District, Yorkshire, Scotland and more.

"A tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show

Monitor the movements of a live vehicle/person or to display a previous route that's been traveled. The vehicle/person's path is displayed as a line on either Google Earth or Google Maps with details of the speed at each point along the route.

A web application that translates GPS data into functional analysis and online mapping for endurance and outdoor athletes.

Personal GPS tracking

The Nokia Step Counter not only counts your steps, it also determines the distance you have covered and your energy expenditure. Your steps are measured by analyzing the output from an accelerometer in your S60 mobile device.

They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.

Handy guide to creating a pop masterpiece from Console

Sinclair ZX Spectrum – Guitars (rhythm & lead)

Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer – Drums

HP Scanjet 3c – Bass Guitar

Hard Drive array – Act as a collection of bad speakers – Vocals & FX

"Welcome to the new AOL Radio service powered by Last.fm!" Hmmm.

MusicIP provides music discovery and identification solutions for websites, software and consumer electronics devices

Being location aware is the single most important feature in a mobile device that otherwise suffers in comparison with desktop and laptop Internet devices

Momus on The Chap.

As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers?

eBay's business is still booming [...] but there are signs that trouble may loom in the core business.

batshit.muxtape.com

A daft muxtape.

I’m obsessed with that Wevie de Crepon song.

The Man in Seat Sixty-One will tell you how to travel overland comfortably & affordably where you might think that air was now the only option.

Orange balloon race competition by Poke.

Working Holidays range from two to seven days and from £60 a week including food and hostel-type accommodation. No previous experience is necessary.

Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG)

Who says big ideas are rare?

Icons for Fluid, unsurprisingly. Very handy.

"When you design your software, work under the assumption that some of your users will be evil. They'll be out to game the system, to defeat it at every turn, to cause denial of service exploits, to attack and humiliate other users, to fill your site with

SM2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It's a library which wraps and extends Flash's sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript.

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.

Enables social entrepreneurs, socially-minded people and socially-driven organisations to share, shape and use social insight to generate greater positive impact in the real world.

Bottom line? As an entrepreneur you have to follow your nose and don't worry if you dump or change your original model. Evolution is the revolution. However, it you don't start you can't iterate.

Have you ever known someone with so much artistic potential, who does nothing with it?

The Tommy Westphall universe hypothesis, an idea discussed among some television fans, makes the claim that not only does St. Elsewhere take place within Tommy’s mind, but so do numerous other television series which are directly and indirectly connected to St. Elsewhere through fictional crossovers and spin-offs.

Also: Tommy Westphall’s Mind – A Multiverse Explored.

The dominance of visually-driven interfaces become especially problematic in the mobile context. Design principles and conventions like WYSIWYG and GUI become brittle and broken on small devices.

Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate desktop application.

Improve the way you send promos and get your pre-release music heard by the right people faster. Create, manage and deliver low-cost, high response, email marketing for each of your releases.