Tag Archives: software
His Dark Materials, the movie; Philip Pullman, the blog – and alethiometrical software, already
Via this Metafilter thread, we discover that the movie of Philip Pullman’s excellent His Dark Materials trilogy is taking shape, and we discover in passing that Pullman has a blog, of a sort. He expresses an ambition to post once … more…
Parallels Desktop 1.0 for Mac OS X
Ars Technica is carrying a substantial and pretty entertaining review of Parallels Desktop 1.0 for Mac OS X, a new virtualization program which they describe as (and I quote) “hotter than two Jessica Albas wresting the devil himself in a … more…
a lifetime’s scratching
I’m liking the WP interface a lot – so much of what used to involve lots of external services of one kind or another is incorporated in here as standard, along with stuff I never got around to implementing, like … more…
BitTorrent enigma
Okay, so you have a Torrent on the go, and you have a squint at it to see how it’s coming along, and you find that there’s so many KBs coming down, and so many KBs going up – but … more…
Bar Code Clock
This Bar Code Clock is generated in Javascript. When I’m a little wider awake, I may delve into the code, and see if I can’t embed a working copy into this page. Or not. (via Bifurcate Rivets)
ITMS Link Maker
This is kind of interesting, thunk I to myself, when I found the ITMS Link Maker – whatcha do is, you enter song titles, album titles and/or recording artistes and the page returns an HTML link to the object of … more…
JSLife by Sam Clippinger
JavaScript version of Conway’s Life program – I’ll be studying the source code of this one rather closely. I suspect that if I can get my head around the coding of this one, it’ll push me on a step or … more…
Babelized
This afternoon I have noticed at least two things. First thing: William Gibson has ceased blogging, over a month ago, persuaded that trying to write a novel while blogging would be like trying to boil a kettle whose lid was … more…
Control of Mac via Bluetooth mobile phone…
TidBITS#694/25-Aug-03describes a very interesting utility, name of Salling Clicker, which allows control of … yeah, okay, you got that part. What makes this particularly interesting to me is that only a couple of weeks ago, I was called by the … more…