Please Mr Twitter, can I have the option of exact Tweet times, not all this “about X hours ago” stuff? Precision matters sometimes, and I don't want to have to think too hard to figure out if it was morning, afternoon or night that it was posted.
Please Mr Facebook, I honestly don't give a rat's arse that some of my friends have become “Fans of X”. Really don't care. I don't want to see this in the news feed. But there appears to be no way of turning it off.
Facebook don't really explain how to restrict some of your information to particular friends, but it's not hard to do with the new privacy settings.
1. First go to Friends, and if it doesn't already exist, make a Friends List called Limited Profile. This will be used to limit what some people can see. (You can use multiple lists to have different permissions.)
2. Put the appropriate people into it. (When confirming friends it gives you that option, too).
3. Then go into your Settings / Privacy Settings / Profile. You can customise who you want to see what, and exclude the Limited Profile people from seeing particular information — or have particular people see/not see whatever you want.
Easy.
Never mind the present day troubles with IE, how about some good ol' fashioned nostalgia?
For those remember coding on the Commodore 64 (rather than just using it), check this terrific essay from pagetable.com — to go with a forthcoming talk on the subject.
It took me back to bits of knowledge about 6502/6510 and the VIC II chip that I thought I'd forgotten, and I'll certainly be watching out for the slides.
The Game On exhibition, which recently showed in Melbourne, has recently opened in Brisbane, and new retro/indie gaming blog Just One More Game has an extensive review of it (in three parts).
State Library of Queensland: Game On!
Game On from GameOn Slq on Vimeo.
YouTube has gone widescreen (note: this link currently breaks if your YouTube preference is for a non-US locale, eg for Aussies you end up here, which currently displays nothing).
The only catch of course is that 4:3 videos now appear letterboxed… or whatever the vertical term for letterboxed is.
My question is: why? Why not just make the player (at least on the YouTube web site) the aspect ratio of the video that it's playing?
In fact at the moment, embedded 16:9 videos still appear letterboxed; 4:3 videos “full screen” … what should happen is that the embedding code should define the player size and so match the video's aspect ratio.
Surely it can't be that hard to avoid those black bands?
Just another baby BASIC variant in an apparently crowded market: Microsoft Small Basic. It includes Turtle graphics!
I just got the complete Young Ones new DVD release. Great to see these episodes again (and unlike previous DVDs, uncut).
But unbelievably, they put the disc 1 layer change in the stupidest spot ever. Rather than put it between episodes, or even at a quiet spot within an episode, they put it in the middle of a song (Dexys Midnight Runners singing “Jackie Wilson Said”).
Idiots!
Haven't checked yet where the disc 2 layer change is. The disc 2 layer change is at the start of a song in Time.
I’ve previously highlighted BBC BASIC for Windows.
Now there’s Commodore BASIC for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Try this: retro computer quiz.
I got 6 out of 10. It was mostly the unrecognisable late-80s/early-90s consoles that let me down.
With Bigpond Music now selling DRM-free MP3s, and their range increasing every week, they’re fast becoming my etailer of choice for music downloads.
Right now (and I don’t know how long it’ll last) they’ve got a 25% discount offer on music vouchers brought from Safeway/Woolworths, and possibly other retailers.
So tracks that normally cost $1.69 (the same as Apple’s iTunes in Australia) now effectively cost about $1.27, and an album about $12.37. Vouchers appear to be valid for about a year and a half.
You can browse the web site before paying to see if they have what you want. Admittedly, they don’t have as wide a range (even in their older format WMA) as iTunes.
AFP report: ARTHUR Dent will get to continue his adventures across the universe with another tale in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series announced.
Irish children's author and creator of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, has been commissioned to write a new instalment of the cult science-fiction comedy which became a worldwide hit,
publishers have revealed.
I dunno. This could be good, or it could be very bad. I'm not convinced that at this point, the series shouldn't be left alone.
Even though the official Scrabble isn’t available outside North America, Scrabulous has disappeared for all Facebook users.
The Scrabulous guys have thrown the game through the mixer and come up with WordScraper… which, to be honest, looks pretty similar, and may be almost as much fun.