Tag Archives: Tech

iPlayer

March 18, 2008 – 9:29 pm

I’m in a state of mild shock after having a smooth experience with DRM-enabled video (at least I assume it’s DRM ‘protected’). We realized we’d missed an episode of a new show, so fired up Safari (a new version at that), loaded iPlayer, and started watching. And here’s the thing. It worked. No messages about [...]

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Missile Defense

February 25, 2008 – 6:58 pm

I’ve been amazed at the acclaim that the recent shooting down of a failing US satellite has met (here’s just one example, from the ironically titled American Thinker). I’ve no doubt it was an impressive technical achievement, especially when we don’t have a system setup in advance to do this sort of thing. But it’s [...]

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Google Spreadsheets

February 7, 2008 – 9:51 am

I already use Google’s Docs feature, and find it very handy for lightweight spreadsheets in particular. But I’m blown away (at least the geek part of me is) by the new feature they’ve launched that lets you create forms to update a spreadsheet. Go to Daring Fireball for a sample.

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Hippos

January 23, 2008 – 7:08 am

I was out all day yesterday learning how to use a Hippotizer. It’s a machine/software combination used to control video displays at concerts, plays, TV events etc. It allows you to place filters on the video, combine sources, and route them to different displays including LED boards. It’s an impressively clever bit of technology, but [...]

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A Plea to all RSS Reader Developers

January 15, 2008 – 6:40 am

PLEASE put a confirmation message on the button/link/shortcut that invokes the ‘mark all as read’ function. That is all.

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