As Google have just released Google Earth for the iPod touch I’ve been having a play with that. One of the most interesting features is the links to geo-tagged photos. These are simply photos which are linked to the location at which they were taken. The service used by Google is Panoramio. This is similar…
iPlate lives up to the hype
Our house is somewhat isolated, and until quite recently was too far from our nearest exchange to be able to get ADSL broadband. Since we did get broadband our connection speed has been somewhat dissapointing varing from 300-600kb/s, and peppered with frequent (though usually short) outages. Similar problems have plagued our neighbours but we’re grateful…
Scientific Instrument Software
As a bioinformatician I find myself spending too much of my time working around poor software supplied with scientific instruments. I’m continually amazed that hardware which can cost hundreds of thousands of pounds is very often let down by the control and analysis software supplied with it. I suspect that the fault for this lies…
Fighting Apple over SSL mail
As I’ve been setting up this domain I’ve been trying to get both my MacBook and my iPod touch to talk to my new mail servers. You’d have thought that this should have been pretty straightforward (I did). Since I have the option of using either unencrypted or SSL protected connections to the mail servers…
Swing Speedup!
I’d never really been one to subscribe to the popular perception that swing is so horrifically slow that it isn’t suitable for use in any serious application. Most of the problems I’ve seen with swing based programs have resulted from people not knowing how to make processing tasks run in a separate thread and therefore…