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Filed under: Internet

The UK is already one of the most-monitored Western countries. It has a record number of security cameras on the streets and public transport stations (one camera for every 14 people!); its authorities are installing chips in garbage cans to monitor the amount of trash, and now Google is “helping out” by bringing [...]

Filed under: Fun

While we’re on the subject of other web technologies that do things we’re used to seeing from Flash, I thought I’d show you Harmony. It’s a very neat little toy (or proof of concept, I guess) that is written in Javascript, and it uses a technique called “procedural drawing”. It’s a similar concept [...]

Filed under: Audio, web 2.0

You know those IQ test questions, “An apple is to an orange as a ________ is to a wall”? Well, HTML5 is to HTML4 as a photon torpedo is to a snowball hurled by a sleepy five-year old. Or something. If that sounds jumbled, it’s just because HTML5 is challenging my [...]

Filed under: Hardware, News, Apple

It goes almost without saying that a lot of the people who buy Apple’s new iPad will already have Apple’s iPhone. Maybe you were thinking, “Well, since I’ve got an iPhone already, why pay for two data plans? There has to be some way to tether the iPad using the iPhone, [...]

Filed under: Social Software, Microblogging

The folks over at Delicious have been fairly active recently. A month ago they added filtering and browsing features, and yesterday they released a couple of new changes. Well, one is not that new actually — more of a comeback, but it’s still cool (or hot, as the case may be).

The [...]

Filed under: Education

Zotero looks like a very useful Firefox add-on for researchers. It has been covered on Download Squad back in 2006. Over three years later, it is still going strong and now has word processor integration. The add-on lets you add citations from anywhere in the web; you find a page which is useful [...]

Filed under: Macintosh, Beta, Browsers

The Opera Desktop team is reporting that Opera 10.50 for Mac has reached Beta, which means it’s now stable enough to take for a spin as your daily browser. The changelog includes some major bonuses for Mac users, like Growl support, multitouch gestures, and a native Cocoa build. Although PowerPC support [...]

Filed under: Developer, Browsers

Firebug is an insanely useful add-on, even for those of us who are not all-out web developers. I tweak HTML every now and then, and Firebug is the best tool I know for figuring how why exactly your document doesn’t look right (in Firefox at least, and now in Chrome too). It [...]

Filed under: Apple, iPhone

Jailbreaking iPhones and iPod touches is nothing new. It’s been going on for ages, and it’ll probably never stop. What needs to stop, however, is the carelessness people display when they do things like installing apps or unlocking devices.

Recently, a developer released Gull1hack, which was reported to unlock the iPhone 3.1.3 firmware. [...]

Filed under: Video, Web services, Social Software

Chatroulette is the hot new site that throws you into a webcam chat with another randomly-selected user, until you hit “next” and move on to someone else. It’s become all the rage in the past few weeks, especially with tech journalists, sociologists, teenagers and creepy naked dudes.

Chatroulette is [...]