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del.icio.us rolls out private saving feature (in beta)

March 20th, 2006 | No Comments »

This is a big step for del.icio.us, but one that I hope will make it more useful. Because del.icio.us is all about sharing and we don’t want to discourage that, we will be watching how this feature impacts the community and will also be experimenting a bit with the UI over the next few weeks.

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Posted by Rob Bevan in: Links | Web 2.0 | del.icio.us

Free software for Symbian S60 phones

December 19th, 2005 | No Comments »

Whilst searching the Opera Mobile forums, I came across this fairly comprehensive list of free software for S60 phones. Some of the links are broken and there’s nothing on the development side, but a useful list nonetheless.

Also, if you’re excited by the prospect of Flash Lite 2.0 announced back in November, you’ll also be excited to hear from this official forum post that this will be available to developers from Macromedia Labs in January.

Update: Lost my phone recently. Here’s my list of the first five essential S60 apps I re-installed:

iSync Agent
Restore contacts, calendar and todos the Mac way. Remember the days when you had to do this by hand?

Shozu
Almost certainly the best way to upload images from your phone to Flickr.

Salling Clicker
It’s still a great party trick to be able to control iTunes remotely from your phone.

Opera Mobile
The “fastest, most secure web browser available for S60 handsets”. My browser of choice (at least until Nokia’s new Safari-based browser becomes available).

Python for Series 60
Rapid application development and prototyping, and the ability to create stand-alone Series 60 applications written in Python. Two scripts I use a lot: Anil Madhavapeddy’s imgcollect.py, a neat way to push all your phone’s images to your laptop and korakot’s s60_gmap.py (see also korakot’s library of snippets).

Posted by Rob Bevan in: Software | Links | Mobile

News from Norway

November 13th, 2005 | No Comments »

In the first in an occasional series of ‘linked links’ and by way of tribute to Merlin Mann’s 5ives here are some great stories from the English version of Aftenposten, Norway’s ‘leading quality daily’ that I’ve bookmarked at del.icio.us* recently.

(I’m half-Norwegian, so I enjoy keeping up-to-date with what’s happening in the ‘motherland’, but it’s a great feed nevertheless.)

Giant boulder closes highway
A boulder weighing roughly 50 tons has shut down highway 715, one of the traffic arteries to Trondheim.

Aker river runs white
A mishap involving the delivery of paint in downtown Oslo on Friday left the River Aker colored an eerie shade of white. (Picture)

Tarantula no toy
An escaped tarantula wandered around a shopping center for at least two weeks before shocked employees finally reacted.

One shot, two moose
A hunter in Troms in northern Norway could not believe his eyes when he saw the result of a single shot.

Carnivorous lizard in toilet
A three-year-old boy got the fright of his life on a trip to the toilet. (Picture)

More del.icio.us bookmarks.

(*apart from the impossible url, the other problem with del.icio.us is that you can’t use the name as a verb, in the same way that you can google, skype or digg something or someone: surely a prerequisite for any ‘Web 2.0′ service)

Let’s make it six: here’s a story about a Norwegian restaurant that’s decided to serve crow, which - apparently - “is incredibly good. It tastes like chicken with a hint of game. And it is safe to eat“. And in other news, over in neighbouring Sweden a couple of drunken moose have been causing havoc at a retirement home. This seems to be an ongoing problem with the wildlife in Sweden: earlier a suspected bird flu-infected seagull was found to be drunk.

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Posted by Rob Bevan in: Links | del.icio.us