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Just a thing worth noting, should I ever be required to set up a service that needs payment processing with Paypal. Shitty behaviour.
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Weird, and sick. I cannot fathom a motive to do this that doesn't leave me faintly nauseous.
Category: Digitalia
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Links For Tuesday 15th December 2009
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This is unreal. I know that beat officers are getting more and more direction from above that harrassing photographers and videographers is not a crime, but seriously, I think there perhaps needs to be a bit more that that. Perhaps a total relaxation of the powers relating to photography, because that this can happen in London is just nauseating.
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I have a soft spot for really, really tacky christmas ligt displays. I'm glad they're not as common here as they are in the US, but oen now and again is fun. This one, however, is *really* impressive.
Links For Monday 14th December 2009
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A blog of songs about London. Excellent.
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Might wind up getting a few of these.
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Might wind up forking out for a few of these.
Links For Friday 11th December 2009
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Mac App that allows locking/unlocking and other actions based on proximity of iphone. There's a potential problem with bluetooth related battery drain on the iphone here, but if they've somehow cracked that, then this could be very interesting/useful – not so much for the security tools, but more for the fact that I could them script for proximity, and use that to log my location through the day.
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About time. UK based locational services are about to get better. Or at least cheaper.
Links For Thursday 10th December 2009
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This guys work has been doing the blog rounds today. That's because it's ace. When his store re-stocks, I will buy a thing from him.
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SLight annoying french spelling aside – if their iphone app is half as nice as their web app, and if they expose an api at some point soon, then I think Things may have been supplanted as my favourite to-do list manager. This is bloody lovely.
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Essentially: whenever any of your friends posts an app, the developer of that app get all the data about *you* that they have access to. Facebook have completely fucked your privacy in the bin. I will be deleting my account at the end of the month, if they don't change it. (The only reason I'm not deleting it *today* is that I don't want to fuck people's social planning in the bin.) For refernce, after a bit of digging about in the privacy settings, despite the fact that I have my privacy locked down, under the new settings, here's what my friends were authorised to share about me, regardless of my profile settings: Personal info (activities, interests, etc.), Status udates,Online presence,Website,Family and relationship,Education and work,My videos,My links,My Notes,My photos,Photos and videos of me,About me,My birthday,My hometown. These setting were buried, and required extra password validaton to alter – they had gone out their way to make it hard. I'm done with them.
Links For Tuesday 8th December 2009
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A clutter free text editor that blocks out other distractions and saves as plain text by default. I like and use Scrivener, but honestly, it's got more power then I need for something simply like, say, writing a blog post. So I'll give this a go, and see how we get on.
Links For Friday 4th December 2009
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I'm in two minds about whether to use them or not. But it's good that there's a DNS provider I can fall back on if my ISP's DNS goes tits up that isn't sodding OpenDNS.
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Heh. I have an absolute *stack* of unwatched TV, and yes, it is daunting, to the point that basically, I'd rather rewatch an odd episode here and there of something I've already watched, than crack open the start of five seasons worth of something else. Starting a totally new show feels like a serious time commitment, whilst rewatching something old is a way to pass a spare 40 minutes. And mostly all I have is the odd spare hour here and there that needs filling up.
Links For Thursday 3rd December 2009
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OK, this might actually give non-techy users a reasonable chance of using Ubuntu – they've made it behave more or less like the most popular version of Windows. I shall have to experiment, and see what's what.
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Here's a nice dissection of how one of the major music players is handling digital stuff. The answer is "shamefully badly", and this article explains why. For what it's worth, this dovetails very directly with my experience of working at a record label – that they could do things well, and there are probably some people there who know how to, but that there is a such a culture against digital in the rest of the business that they are ignored, and the improvements they suggest actively held back by people who like the sloppy, incompetent status quo. (Also worth it for the explanation of advances toward the end, just in case you hadn't heard that little injustice before, either.)
Links For Tuesday 1st December 2009
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Clary Shirky on the future of the bookstore. I think that the local bookstore probably has a longer future that the local record store did – I think it'll take a generational shift or two, until we've got people who are more used to reading on the screen than they are on paper, but I think he's right that they're going to need to make massive practical changes in the way they do business – perhaps becoming hubs for local POD services…