I write about technology and its uses in the varied world of heritage, from 3D scanning prehistoric petroglyphs to the use of ChatGPT in museums and archives.
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iPod woes
Recently, my 2 year old 4G iPod broke. I was listening to a podcast whilst walking to work when the audio froze. I took it out of my pocket and found that everything had frozen – the UI as well as playback. I tried to reset it on the move, but nothing could unfreeze it.…
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Embedding Google Maps Just Became Easier
Embedding a Google Map into your website just became much, much easier. Gone are the days of signing up for an API key and fumbling through the “Hello World” example, just so that you can show directions to your house. It’s now as easy as embedding a YouTube video – all done with a snippet…
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Testing Ecto 3 alpha
Way back in the dim and distant past, before my other blog, Past Thinking, began to focus solely upon heritage matters, I reviewed Ecto 2. Now, 2 years later, I’m writing this with the alpha version of Ecto 3. This isn’t a full review – this is really just a test drive of the alpha…
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Cleaning up Word HTML
Today, whilst building a new data downloads section for the Archaeology at Heathrow T5 website, I had to convert a load of Word documents full of tables and subheadings into beautiful xHTML Strict for pages in a WordPress environment. Normally, I’d open the files in Word 2004 (on a Mac), save them as HTML, then…
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Moving and internet access
I’ve been a bit slow on the old blogging front lately, due mainly to the fact that I’ve been without an internet connection at home for a month now. Tehmina and I have moved house, and Demon Internet still don’t seem able to cope particularly well with moves. They cut us off 3 weeks before…
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Fed up with iPhone news and hype?
The question has to be asked of the iPhone – will it blend? Combine an iPhone and an extremely efficient blender…
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Spiders and eBay
My curiosity got the better of me today when I opened my Netvibes homepage to see the Digg headline of “HUGE Spider Hides Behind Clock (pics)“. I followed the link, and sure enough, there’s a story of a huge huntsman spider hiding behind a clock, with just four hairy legs poking out from around the…
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I’m featured on a 3D software company website
E-On software, developers of Vue 6 Infinite, my 3D package of choice for landscape visualisation, are running a feature on my recent work. It’s quite nice to have been picked by them to show off what the software can do. But I am left with a little sour taste in my mouth. The latest “update”…
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Zooomr Mark III launched
[Update] I can’t log back in after the first time – all I’m getting is a blank page. Apparently they’re swamped with interest, and things are being ironed out. Just a quick message to say that Zooomr has relaunched! When I’ve used it a bit more, I’ll post a review of it here. If you’re…
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Zooomr’s photos are back online
As of now, blogged photos hosted on Zooomr are now back online. Here’s a quick test: Silbury Hill, Wiltshire Hosted on Zooomr It seems as if Zooomr is back on track with new servers, thanks to a big community effort, and support from some big names like Robert Scoble, Zoho, and Sun Microsystems. And of…