(Un)secured Bike Parking
by jpreardon on January 21, 2008
This photo by Bill Cunningham of The New York Times serves as a reminder that locking your bike to scaffolding is not a great idea. Check out the rest of the bike-themed slide show here: On The Street | On (…)
Attended Bike Parking Planned for Midtown
by jpreardon on January 17, 2008
The 34th Street Partnership is planning to create an attended bike parking area in Midtown. They have secured space on West 33rd Street and are seeking a sponsor to cover the operating expenses. To help defray the operating expenses, perhaps (…)
Lost & Found
by jpreardon on January 16, 2008
It’s been a long while since I lost music in a rental car. In 93, a tape player latched on to a killer mixtape somewhere south of D.C. and wouldn’t let go. Unfortunately, since the tape was stuck, the listening (…)
Simple DB
by jpreardon on January 14, 2008
Amazon released SimpleDB to limited beta in December. It’s just what it sounds like, a database to add to Amazon’s stable of web services. I’m a little surprised that SimpleDB does not support SQL, but I can understand why they (…)
NetNewsWire Goes Free
by jpreardon on January 9, 2008
NetNewsWire and NewsGator’s other client products are now free. Well, almost free. You’ll have to give up some attention data, but that’s not so bad is it? I had a minor hiccup upgrading to the 3.1 version. This was because (…)
Bug Labs Announces Pricing
by jpreardon on January 6, 2008
Bug Labs, mentioned here earlier, has announced their initial pricing just in time for CES. Unlike other companies, Bug Labs will offer an early-adopter discount rather than a premium. Here is the price list from the Bug Labs site: BUGbase (…)
HopStop Bookmarklet
by jpreardon on January 4, 2008
Back in December, Jonas said “Wouldn’t it be cool if you could highlight an address on a web page and get subway directions to that location?” Cool indeed. I thought a bookmarklet would do the trick, so I came up (…)
RESTfulness
by jpreardon on January 3, 2008
Gregg Pollack, of Rails Envy fame, gave a good presentation on REST web services at the Orlando Ruby User’s Group recently (video here). This is a great primer for anyone trying to figure out what all this REST stuff is (…)
ChaCha: Answering the Tough Questions
by jpreardon on January 3, 2008
Bits mentioned the human-guided search engine, ChaCha, today. ChaCha offers both browser-based and SMS search. Text a question to 242242 and ChaCha will answer. I was interested in just how fast a person could answer a tough question. Today, I (…)