Category Archives: Technology

Total Recall

The Internet Archive (home of the great Wayback Machine) have just launched the beta of their new service, Recall. What’s so special about this, you may ask? Well, think of it like Google, but where you are no longer restricted … Continue reading

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London Calling

For those of you who haven’t heard, the guys behind Kazaa have recently launched Skype, a new Internet telephony service. What’s the difference between this and the previous Voice chat and Internet telephony offerings? The Skype team, leveraging the knowledge … Continue reading

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Being Vocal – The Commandments of Voice User Interface Design

In a previous job, my focus was on wireless and voice technologies. I architected a multi-modal application platform, whose initial purpose was to support Personal Information Management across a disparate range of interaction devices. At that time I immersed myself … Continue reading

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Making feed subscribing easier…

Here’s my quick hack for the week. As a little diversion from nntp//rss, I thought I’d create a way to make it easier for people to subscribe to my RSS feed. There are various initiatives to make this process easier … Continue reading

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Protect your email address from the Spam Scavengers

Enkoder Form 5.0: Found this useful little tool today. It encodes your email address as a JavaScript function, making it invisible to the majority of email-harvesting robots. When your page is loaded by a web browser, the JavaScript function executes … Continue reading

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