Monthly Archives: April 2009

Note book Applications

Posted on April 24, 2009 by dale

Not Notebook as in Computer… note book as in a thing you write your notes in.

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Generating PDF’s using Javascript

Posted on April 23, 2009 by dale

Stumbled across this code to generate PDF’s clientside using Javascript. It works, although it didn’t work in Firefox 3 correctly, perfectly in Google Chrome though. The idea is pretty awesome though, I wonder what other formats could be created this … Continue reading →

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Voting

Posted on April 22, 2009 by dale

Just returned from voting. We originally went at 9am but there were long queues, so we decided to come back much later, voted at 4:45 and it only took a few minutes. As usual the parties were camped outside the … Continue reading →

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Google Image Search – Similar Images

Posted on April 21, 2009 by dale

If you visit Google Labs often, then you’ve probably seen the new Similar Images Image Search entry. I use Google Image Search alot, normally to find an image of something quickly or to see what a person, car, item etc … Continue reading →

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Can you make money with a Social/User generated content Site?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by dale

I was reading this article from Slate about user generated content and the cost of running “social” sites or other sites that contain user generated content. I’ve always wondered about the costs of running something like YouTube or Facebook and … Continue reading →

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Anyone using Google App Engine?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by dale

I’ve been reading up about Google App Engine, which sounds interesting. It sounds like yet another “cloud” computer although one of the advantages is that this one is free, or at least some of the services are free and it … Continue reading →

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Reading SQLite databases in Windows

Posted on April 16, 2009 by dale

I recently had to get some data out of a .db file from an Adobe Air application, a few quick searches on Google turned up that the file is, as I suspected, a SQLite database. (Way to go Adobe!) A … Continue reading →

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Open Source/Free Utils and Applications

Posted on April 15, 2009 by dale

I thought I would list a bunch of Open Source / Free utils and applications that I use almost every day. I’m excluding the obvious ones like Linux (in my case Ubuntu). The list below is what I use in … Continue reading →

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Posting on the go

Posted on April 11, 2009 by dale

This post is being posted via my new cellphone a nokia N78 and Wordmobi. Obviously typing is not the easiest and the predictive text is stupid on this phone, but if you can read this then it was a success. … Continue reading →

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