Along with a lot of others I was getting frustrated with the lack of good subversion clients for a Mac. So, when not one but two new subversion clients came out for the Mac I immediately downloaded both. The two clients are Versions and Cornerstone. They will both run on Tiger and Leopard so should be available for the vast majority of Mac users.
Here's my thoughts on the two clients...
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Try this tag cloud generator, feed it some text, a feed or a del.icio.us username and it'll make you a nice customisable cloud. Here's a MadeByPi™ one I made earlier...
The Government has released Gigabytes of new or previously invisible public information in a bid to get people creating exciting new applications to help translate this data to the public.
There's Neighbourhood statistics, Health care information, all the schools in England and Wales, Notices from the London Gazette, Transport information and much much more. The Power of Information Taskforce are running a competition for the best idea and the prize is £20,000 to further develop their idea.
One thing im particularly interested in is creating a mashup by plotting every bus stop and bus route in the UK on a google map and then animating the buses in real time using their GPS data so you can visually see exactly where your bus is - it'd be great for mobile devices and save a lot of waiting around at bus stops!
Check out their site: http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk
I found this great little recipe site. It's got a nice way of searching based on ingredients.
I'm currently reading "The Google Story" by David A. Vise
At the back of the book is a copy of the 'Google Labs Aptitude Test' used to assess potential new developers at Google. Here is a sample of the questions...
Check out the art on the new Futurama DVD's. Awesome stuff, the Metropolis image is great!
I went to my first meeting of the BBC future media advisory group last week and met the other invited members. We were there to discuss how best the BBC can engage with digital suppliers and build mutually beneficial relationships. (more...)
The Register is running a report today that Google and Yahoo are using an optimized version of the flash player to index text and links inside flash content, there's also more info in a press release on the adobe site.
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