Monthly Archives: September 2007

WordPress plugin for one click upgrades

Posted by coulson on September 26, 2007 None comments

How do you upgrade to the latest WordPress version with as little effort as possible ? [btw: WP 2.3 'Dexter' was released yesterday, appears to be a fairly big upgrade] German opensource consulting team Zirona have been working on this …

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Rip music from streams – Last.FM to mp3

Posted by coulson on September 24, 2007 3 comments

Streamripping, as you no doubt know, is how folk record Internet radio to their hard drives. There’s plenty of available software to do this. A quick search for ‘streaming audio recorder’ on SourceForge for example, has links to more than …

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Well-formed data visualizations

Posted by coulson on September 21, 2007 None comments

Just came across the work of Moritz Stefaner a freelance information visualizer and designer from Germany – impressive stuff. If you’re interested in visualization design then take a look at his Thesis page – a roundup of work for his …

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Computational craft from Germany

Posted by coulson on September 14, 2007 None comments

Bumped into – Islands of Consciousness from serial Flasheur, Mario Klingemann, alias Quasimondo. Stream of associated images pulled from Flickr tags. Intermingling, distorted photos manipulated in real time by the random soundtrack. Collaboration between Klingemann’s Flickeur project and a musical …

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EU clippings…

Posted by coulson on September 10, 2007 None comments

>> Chipwrapper – set of tools to search the sites of major UK newspapers [BBC, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Guardian, Independent, ITN, Sky News, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times] includes a Google CSE, a Yahoo! Pipe …

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Sardonic smiley

Posted by coulson on September 6, 2007 None comments

Wi-Fi transmissions across the Tyrannian sea have set a new world record. Habitants of Sardinia can now stay in touch with the Italian Peninsula using a 5GHz WiFi connection that maintains a transfer rate of 5Mbps over a distance of …

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Tribler reloaded

Posted by coulson on September 3, 2007 None comments

“Harvard releases innovative P2P video software” these titles abound at the moment, concerning Tribler, the p2p file sharing client… A news release issued by Harvard University last week, was distilled by the New Scientist, and produced the title: Bandwidth could …

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