Future of the cloud

Interesting column from John Naughton in today’s Observer on the potential issues of an increased focus on ‘cloud computing’ ie using online services like Google Docs, etc. Firstly he talks about the recent outages in Asia caused by the Pakistani authorities re-routing YouTube to nowhere – in other words, just how stable is the web? … Keep reading

links for 2008-03-01

NewsFire (for Mac OS X) This Mac RSS reader is now free. Competition for NetNewsWire, possibly? (tags: rss mac software reader)

What Google Apps Does

I’ve written a couple of posts about Google Sites over the last couple of days, and in summary: I really like it. I have spotted a few posts about complaining that this isn’t a service that’s available to those with standard Google accounts. That’s because it’s a part of the Google Apps (for your domain) … Keep reading

Mec Puck Z

…is the name of the artistic creation that young Master DavePress produced using the graphics tablet just now. He has given it the title ‘Mec Puck Z’. Don’t ask, I didn’t dare. (Warning: it’s a pretty big download!) I am sure you all agree it’s a real work of art. He loves the tablet though … Keep reading

New toy

On the way home from work last night I bought myself a little treat: It’s a Wacom Bamboo 1 graphics tablet – just the basic model for playing with. One of the things I will start using it for is creating Sketchcasts, which look like a really cool mashup of lo- and hi-tech. Here’s an … Keep reading