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Google Chromium OS
Details of the Google Chromium operating system have been sloshed around the internet since they were announced yesterday. And, you’ll be happy to hear, I’m not going to repeat them. However, watch the video below (taken from the Chromium website) and, in particular, the last few seconds. Do you see that boot time? And they’re…
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Beeb See Me
After yesterdays post about the iPlayer on the Wii, I was surprised to have a couple of BBC techie people commenting on it. I was, however, even more surprised to come in this morning and find that the same post had been referenced on the BBC website (in case you’re wondering how I knew, I…
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BBC iPlayer on Nintendo Wii
Last night, or rather at midnight, the BBC iPlayer channel was released for the Nintendo Wii. The iPlayer has been usable in the past using the Opera-powered browser channel, but has been of limited quality and, well, not very easy to use. Now we have a very specific channel just for iPlayer. And it’s been…
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Improving Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a rather excellent WordPress plugin that adds various Twitter functionality to a blog. The two elements I use are the automatic posting when a post is submitted and the ability to display your latest Twitter entry. It’s clever in that the latter won’t show the former – i.e. it won’t display on…
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Vacuum Firefox for improved performance
Since Firefox 3.0 bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases and, ass with any other database, SQLite databases become fragmented over time. But, since there are no managing processes checking and optimizing the database, these eventually result in a performance hit. So, a good way to improve startup and some other bookmarks…