Before I rush into my busy day: CNN has published an article on Josh Nesbit’s project at St. George’s in Namitete, Malawi. I wrote about the project here and talked about it at BlogCampSwitzerland.
Category: tech
Text Snippets Circling Around
Pêle-mêle off the top of my head: Learnt yesterday: The number of English-speaking Internet users is decreasing, currently at about 35% of total number of Internet users. Shared yesterday: Who writes about African technology developments? From the list, I follow White African, Afrigadget, and sometimes Google Alert points me to IT News Africa. Photo processing… Continue reading Text Snippets Circling Around
Opening .MHT Files on a Mac
Executive summary: Best tool to open .mht files on a Mac is Opera for Mac. I regret deleting Windows Vista. Last week I was sent a .mht file. And now I’m searching the Internet for a solution how to open this proprietary Microsoft file (my perception, but according to Wikipedia it is actually a proposed… Continue reading Opening .MHT Files on a Mac
On Following Tweet Streams
I recently talked to Persillie on the difficulty of following people’s tweet streams. Esp. if you have a limited time budget and can only tune into Twitter every so often. For example, I follow Kathy Sierra’s stream at Twitter. You can see quite a few of her 140 character statements in my Twitter Favorites. Re:… Continue reading On Following Tweet Streams
Techniques for Reviewing a User Interface
I like this quote: The GUI is the only contact the user has with the application. that I found in this presentation: which I found while surfing thru my Sitemeter stats. An obvious fact. Yet… When talking to software developers, I often hear complaints about the quality of code (especially if somebody else programmed the… Continue reading Techniques for Reviewing a User Interface
Strategic Technologies for 2009
Stumbled across this 5 seconds ago: 1. Virtualization 2. Business Intelligence 3. Cloud Computing 4. Green IT 5. Unified Communications 6. Social Software and Social Networking 7. Web Oriented Architecture 8. Enterprise Mashups 9. Specialized Systems 10. Servers – Beyond Blades Will be interesting to watch how this evolves.
Appfrica Interview on MTN Uganda
Just a quick note to point to an interesting interview with an official of MTN Uganda at: Appfrica: Interview With MTN’s Erik van Veen – Part 1 These points caught my eye: (…) revenues per user, are very low in Africa by international standards, and require a low cost operating model if the Operator is… Continue reading Appfrica Interview on MTN Uganda
Tagaroo and other links
Pêle-mêle off the top my head: In my daily reads, I stumbled across a WordPress plugin called Tagaroo. It reminded me of Zemanta. I haven’t tried it out. But I guess the interesting part is that it is being sponsored/developed by media giant Thomson Reuters as part of the Calais project. As usual I’ve been… Continue reading Tagaroo and other links
Zemanta
I am learning a lot from the African blogs I am reading… App+frica recently wrote about useful web applications for bloggers in developing countries. In his list he mentions Zemanta: Zemanta, which just scored a new round of funding from Union Square Ventures, is a huge time saving tool. It’s a browser-side plug-in that scans… Continue reading Zemanta
Useful CSS and WordPress Links
For future reference: Useful links on CSS and WordPress which I know I’ll lose if I don’t write about them here in my virtual notebook.
Developers under NDA
I heard about the iPhone SDK NDA for the first time this week while talking to an iPhone app developer at my day job: Why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA incredible…
My BlogCamp Switzerland Talk
As announced on Twitter, I presented a talk on mobile technology in Malawi at today’s BlogCamp in Zurich to share what I’m learning from the African blogs and tweets that I follow on a regular basis. I started my talk with a short intro on Chiperoni (I am a bridge blogger somewhere between Basel and… Continue reading My BlogCamp Switzerland Talk
Twitter, SMS and Africa
This recent Twitter announcement is disappointing on a personal level, but also on a more global level as White African discusses: Twitter represents a change in communication. By acting as a global gateway for updates via SMS (or the web), that then updates all of your followers, Twitter succeeded in breaking ground in one-to-many messaging.… Continue reading Twitter, SMS and Africa
CSS Editors Reviewed
for my own future reference: Here’s a list of CSS editors that might be useful. Some of them have been around for years: Review of CSS Editors I use Textwrangler to code HTML and CSS. I recently stumbled across an HTML editor called Smultron, which I quite like as well.
The iPod Touch is Good Enough
Lifehacker on Ipod Touch.
Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
A message from the admin: Chip moved to WP 2.6. If anything appears broken, leave a comment 😉 Update: Finally, fixed the Terong Related Links plugin, which hasn’t been working for the past months since I upgraded to WP 2.5. I found this fix here and simply replaced the PHP code as described. After activating… Continue reading Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
Portable Power Generator
your very own energy generator: Portable Power Generator
fring-fring
in my mailbox: Hi there, You recently registered to get fring, but sadly your phone was not supported Well , good news, the wait is over, and weÂ’re delighted to now invite you to join the fring community! Caution: short techie bit coming up… Until now, phones running on Java ME software (for example lots… Continue reading fring-fring
Pattern library
for future reference: Interaction Design Pattern Library Designing Interfaces Yahoo’s pattern library Improving Interface Design
VoIP for iPod Touch
How to make VoIP phone calls from your iPod touch or iPhone using a freeware application called SIP-VoIP
More CVS commands for humble MarComm folks
(for future reference) To remove a tag and file: cvs tag -d “tagname” filename cvs remove -f filename cvs commit -m “message” filename To tag an entire folder: cvs tag -F “tagname” foldername I started using command line cvs more frequently. These are reminders for myself. In addition to the cvs help.
Is the blog hype over?
Today I* was asked: Is the blog hype over? My answer: Yes, the hype is over, but blogs are still around and will not disappear any time soon. In my humble opinion, blogs are becoming more and more mainstream (read “boring” for all of those geeks looking for the next big wave). Reasons: I no… Continue reading Is the blog hype over?
Searching for a new, versatile WP theme
I’ve been browsing around (aimlessly) looking at WordPress themes. Uploaded a couple and tried them out, but there’s always something that I don’t like. Typography, comments, additional plugins I need to use the theme. After a while I return to my 3 column version of K2. What I don’t like are hard-coded navigation or list… Continue reading Searching for a new, versatile WP theme
Scared by my own Tweets
(introspection) Amakhala scared. Seeing my own tweets display on my blog is kind of frightening and scary. And has a sci-fi weirdness. I think I’ll deactivate the display of tweets for a while. Tweets contain a lot of personal information. And it’s searchable. Let’s see who’s having coffee… My only consolation: there is such a… Continue reading Scared by my own Tweets
Marketer’s Cheat Sheet for cvs and svn?
At work we use cvs and subversion for version control, light years better than Visual SourceSafe. I’m trying to extend my active command line knowledge of cvs and svn… Remember I’m a low and humble marketer / content developer / writer. Regular commands I use: cvs update cvs commit -m “message” filename cvs tag -F… Continue reading Marketer’s Cheat Sheet for cvs and svn?