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Archive for January 2010

In this day and age I expect 7 hours minimum of battery life being connected to the internet for all devices.

WIPUP on Trac

Yesterday saw a burst of activity as far as WIPUP commits were concerned, but most importantly I’ve said goodbye to the proprietary Assembla project management tool we were using before and set-up our very own in-house service "Trac", courtesy of our lovely host. Trac’s main use is in ticket tracking – a way for users [...]

WIPUP: Sneak preview: BBCode support and resizing textareas added!

http://wipup.org/updates/view/22/

iPad, what about you?

Now I really couldn’t resist. Really – and if you haven’t heard of it yet I guess Apple needs to get more fanboys, or at least ones who talk more. The iPad was released yesterday, and is the embodiment of magical Apple orgasm. Here’s a picture. Apple loves pictures. Yep, it’s simply one big iPod/iPhone [...]

The Sarc Mark available for Linux?

Raise your hand if you’ve seen this little gem: That’s the latest addition to the English language (The Guardian). Used like the rest of the Mark brothers (Mr Question Mark and his annoying sister Little Miss Exclamation Mark) Mr Sarc’s purpose is to denote sarcasm. Now instead of using various to-be-deprecated techniques such as the [...]

Wikisurfing, the latest in extreme sports.

Say, my good sir, have you gone Wikisurfing before? No? Well- it’s time to expose yourself to the latest and greatest addiction. Wikisurfing is the act of a group of people starting on a predetermined page on Wikipedia.org (in whatever language). Their objective is to navigate through Wikipedia to another predetermined article, using only inline [...]

Review of Doteasy hosting – do NOT use.

DotEasy engages in illegal business practices and is known for its scams. Please see Kevin’s comment for more information from a former employee. The original review before I discovered these scams is still quoted below. I have accordingly removed all links to them to prevent contributing to their SEO. Some time ago I received an [...]

TEDIndia: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology by Pranav Mistry – how could I have missed this?

After the WIPUP release, the stats are in.

Unless you have short-term memory loss you would remember about a week ago WIPUP 14.01.10 was released. One of the major features of this release was a working and presentable stats section in the account dashboard. Generating statistics is a rather intensive operation on the webserver and would be overkill to have it happen daily, [...]

WIPUP: Created my own KDE Plasma theme called Plix

http://wipup.org/updates/view/21/

The economics of technology

The long-term success of a company is caused by its people. The long-term success of a product is caused by the producers. Consumers are not the cause of success, they are a symptom of success. That was the ideaology I got into a debate with my friend the other day. I was pro and he [...]

WIPUP 14.01.10 released!

It’s party time! After a long break from development in November and a few more commits creeping through in January and late December I’ve decided to update the web version to the latest and greatest – the so-called 14.01.10 version. Yes, it’s the one and only WIPUP. For the unaware, WIPUP is a website that [...]

If the language of the web was Chinese we’d have less people sp3ak1ng leik dis.

Tech tip #4: Copy a random set of files from a directory.

More for archival purposes than anything, today I wanted to copy some songs out of my serious mess of a music "collection" onto my microSD card. I didn’t want to have to choose and I haven’t rated my songs so that wouldn’t help. Instead I wanted a random selection of songs. I’m not a bashmaster [...]

The state of vendor lock-in on handheld services?

In this day and age it seems as though the word smartphone has replaced (or at least become synonymous with) the traditional phones we grew up with. These devices try to tackle the usual on-the-go services: PIM, messaging, casual browsing, multimedia and social networking. However with this is also an attempt to lock users into [...]

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