Posted in Computers on April 1st, 2006 No Comments »
Google have dipped their toes into the online dating market with their new offering Google Romance.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google Romance?, a new product that offers users both a psychographic matchmaking service and all-expenses-paid dates for couples who agree to experience contextually relevant [...]
Posted in Computers, Security on March 21st, 2006 No Comments »
“Fake porn euro notes being sold as a gimmick in Germany are being successfully passed off as real cash.” from Ananova.
Ananova - Porn euros being passed off as real [via schneier.com]
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet, Programming on February 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Announcing my first Google maps mashup - my Pub Finder. It integrates content from the great www.BeerInTheEvening.com site with maps, and then gives variably coloured icons denoting the rating of the pub.
To use it: move the map to an area you’d like to visit. If no pubs appear, then enter the placename of where you [...]
Posted in Computers, Firefox on February 8th, 2006 No Comments »
What an incredible Firefox plugin! Shows all your tabs in a discrete location letting you flip between them - and also lets you search across all tabs simultaneously.
Go and download it now - The Reveal Extension
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on January 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
Here it is - On One Map - http://ononemap.com/
At last someone has integrated Google Maps with estate agents’ feed in the UK. Whilst there has been a mashup of US craigslist and google maps for a while, this is the first time i’ve seen it done in the UK. It get its’ detail from a [...]
Posted in .NET, Computers, Programming on December 8th, 2005 No Comments »
Everybody is talking about AJAX nowadays since Google Maps and Google Suggest showed the world how cool it can be. We used this technology at a previous employer 3 years ago for displaying live gambling odds… but anyway I thought i’d take a look at what libraries are out there for doing this in .NET.
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Posted in Computers, Internet on November 23rd, 2005 1 Comment »
If you add encarta@conversagent.com to your MSN IM contacts list, you can ask it questions. Neat. It’ll even open Encarta in a sidebar in Messenger to answer your question in more detail.
From Chris Sells’ blog.
Posted in .NET, Computers, Programming on November 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
Having spent a couple of days trying to load a 30.5Gb Xml file, i’ve discovered that there is a problem in the XmlTextReader class in that is uses an integer to track the file position. Now, I guess that having massive Xml files isn’t really what they were intended for, but that’s why i’m using [...]
Posted in .NET, Computers, Programming on October 5th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been working on a 30gb Xml file today, importing it into one of our systems. There are always problems working with files this big - how do you get just a small segment to test on? how can you view small regions of it, or search it?
Most tools available for Windows aren’t up to [...]
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on October 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
One of the few pages from a set of Gmail power tips, this page shows you how to use Plus Addressing. Essentially it lets you have many email addresses based on your single gmail one, and then filter/block them at will. i.e. you don’t have to give out your real email address to companies. Of [...]
