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SSDs and the MacBook Pro
SSD cards are currently 80 quid for a 32GB, slot into the side of the current MacBook Pro, and can be used to boot the OS. Jump to 3:30 to see how much faster they are for launching apps.
Plupload
All-in-one file uploader using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus
Logorama
A short animated film set in a world of corporate logos Many nice touches, even if there's 100s of logos I didn't recognise.
Integrate Tornado in Django
How to use the friendfeed-developed WSGI webserver from Django and buildout
django-voice
Django app offers similar features to Get Satisfaction, UserVoice, etc.
Farm-Fresh Web Icons
1000 icons at 32 and 16 pixels. Mostly based on the classic famfam icons.
Video, Freedom And Mozilla
Firefox developer defends their resistance to using H.264 video
How-to register an International Domain Name
John just bought a totally useless domain: his own name upside-down: http://uɥoɾ.com/
Value for Money on Blu-ray players
Rebranding a cheapy Blu-ray player with "THX" apparently means you can mark it up by $3000!
Support Details
Simple website with easy-to-remember name that lists your current web browser, screen size, javascript status, etc. Perfect for when a client phones up but has no idea what web browser they use.
James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.
James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.
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Posts from Google Sightseeing
The Street View Best Streets Awards
Forget the Oscars – these are the awards that count at Google Sightseeing! The guys at Google are planning to expand their Street View coverage of the UK in the near future, and to get us in the mood they asked the public to vote for their favourite British streets in three categories: the most [...]
Posted on 8th March 2010
Dog Suicide Bridge
In 1859 a wealthy man bought a piece of land overlooking the River Clyde, on which he built a mansion. When the mansion was expanded in 1892, an access road over the Overtoun Burn was required, and so the Overtoun Bridge was built.
50 years later a bizarre series of suicides began to take place on [...]
Posted on 5th March 2010
Street Circuits – Part 1
Once a year, streets all over the world transform into professional racing circuits to play host to some the greatest drivers and cars in the world. Parking lots are turned into paddocks, parks are remodelled with grandstands, and intersections on the road become high-speed overtaking points in battles for world championships. Local governments often use [...]
Posted on 3rd March 2010
Don Justo’s Cathedral
In the Spanish town of Mejorada Del Campo, former monk Justo Gallego Martínez has devoted the past 50 years of his life to constructing a cathedral, all by himself.
After contracting tuberculosis as as a young man, Don Justo promised to build a cathedral dedicated to “Our Lady of the Pillar” if he recovered from his [...]
Posted on 1st March 2010
Top 3 Scariest Airports in the Caribbean
What do you get when you mix fast heavy planes with small island airports? A hair-raising final approach! Let’s take a look at three scariest airports to fly into in the Caribbean.
Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten (SXM)
Passengers arriving into Princess Juliana often fly just a few metres over the head of sunbathers below on [...]
Posted on 25th February 2010