Archive January 2008
Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes
The clever guys at the digital ethnography working group (a team of cultural anthropology undergraduates at kansas state university) have put together a neat little video Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.
Michael Wesch says “I was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, I decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it”
Neat CD/DVD app which shows inserted disc on desktop
I just found this neat application for those of us who use OS X. Normally when you insert a CD/DVD into your Mac it disappears, but with Disctop your inserted CD/DVD neatly “fades transparently” back into your current desktop picture.It will also search for artwork of your CD/DVD automatically using Amazon or you can copy images from programs like Safari and iPhoto.
Cool!
Original SimCity now available for OS X using GPL’ed code
Last November SimCity was released under the GPL for the benefit of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The GPL open source code was released under the name “Micropolis“, which was SimCity’s original working title.
Some bright guys have been working to get the GPL’ed code working on OS X. Here is a create post about how to get
SimCity on working OS X.
Hats off to all those who made this happen!
Pandora is Open! (At least for a while…)
If you live outside the US and love listening to online radio, you might remember Pandora, probably the greatest free online service where you can listen and tune your music to your taste. Well, as Pandora is now only streaming to US-based listeners, what are people outside to do? Head to globalPandora, where you can listen to it without a problem (at least for a while, because we’re certain the site will be *nicely* asked to cease, although now that it’s proved possible, similar ones will pop-up soon).
We have tested the site and it works perfectly. Even a bit faster (and without ads) as it does via this program we’ve covered last week. So go ahead and enjoy while you can!
Pandora is now US-only; You have the right to remain… a listener!
Got an e-mail in my inbox this morning from Pandora with the thing all UK-based users of this service have feared: Pandora will stop streaming to the UK as of January 15th. They have been forced to isolate everyone except the UK for a while, in hopes they might still be able to work out a deal. I guess it did not work out.
Oh well, there’s always Last.fm or HotSpot Shield. Yeah, you read me right! While it’s been intended as a protection over your wireless connection, HotSpot creates “a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and the wireless router. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing your email, instant messages, credit card information or anything else you send over a wireless network. Which means you remain anonymous and protect your privacy.”
Well, who says you have to use it on a wireless connection? It is FREE, as we feared and you could possibly probably potentially use it to hide say, your “real ip” from the websites you’re visiting and make them think you’re IN the US, not outside eh?
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