MRM Tech Blog

This is one reason my machine has been so slow. I did this tweak and already notice a difference.

http://www.paraesthesia.com/archive/2007/09/26/optimize-tortoise-svn-cache-tsvncache.exe-disk-io.aspx

Synergy

There is a good little program called Synergy that lets you control multiple computers with one keyboard/mouse setup.

You need to install the program on all computers and choose one to be the server.

Here is a page with instructions and download links:

Synergy Instructions

These instructions are to have a Mac as the server but I set up my PC as the server easily enough.

You can cut and paste from one to the other and link up the screen savers.  I haven’t experimented past that.

Processing

I’ve mean meaning to check this out for a while.

http://processingjs.org/

some really nice demos can be found here

http://processingjs.org/exhibition

InfoVis - want some data visualization in js?

http://thejit.org/

my fav: http://thejit.org/Jit/Examples/Spacetree/example1.html

BakerTweet from BakerTweet on Vimeo.

Everyone knows the best time to get your baked goods is when they’re fresh out the oven. So we figured that this could be a killer use of Twitter. Letting followers know that fresh goodies are ready right now. But bakeries don’t want laptops or phones lying around in the kitchen. Flour, eggs and technology don’t mix so well.

So we built BakerTweet.

It’s a bespoke piece of hardware (with Arduino-based guts) that allows our friends at Albion across the road to select what’s just been baked and ping the relevant Twitter message to local customers. Meaning that you can time your trips to Albion to pick up the freshest freshness.

Deeplinking for DHTML/AJAX that enables “back button” and “history” features in browser

http://www.mikage.to/jquery/jquery_history.html

Facebook announced on the 14th that Facebook connect is now available for the iPhone and ipod touch.

http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php?tab=iphone

While most people attempt to add as many friends as they can from facebook, burger king attempted to do the opposite…

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/08/burger-king-will-sacrifice-facebook-friends-for-free-whopper/?obref=outbrain

Eventually however, facebook decided that the application which let friends know that they were removed for some flame grilled beef through their RSS feeds violated their rules on how people know they are de-friended.

Overall however, there were over a quarter million people defriended during the time the promotion was active.

A swiss company is making 1 prototype of a car that uses an iphone instead of keys.

http://www.macworld.com/article/138962/2009/02/ichange.html

This is a nice example of what people are doing in this space. Its written in c++. There are ports of technology to Flash but its a memory/resource hog.

http://vimeo.com/1320756

Expect to see more things like this soon.

Mobile Browsing: The iPhone Dominates, but Android and BlackBerry are Rapidly Gaining Share
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/03/01/report-iphone-has-commanding-lead-on-web/