Archive for the “Hi tek” category
Harvest on iPhone Sync Problem
by jpreardon on February 24, 2009
Harvest now has an iPhone application (built and distributed by Y Factorial). It’s really slick, and a welcome alternative to the browser based iPhone solution that came previously. I tested it out last week, and it worked great. Today, however, (…)
New York Times TimesMachine
by jpreardon on May 24, 2008
The NYTimes OPEN blog talks about their TimesMachine implementation, and how they used EC2 to convert the archive information into something usable on the web. TimesMachine, by the way, is an archive of Times pages going all the way back (…)
NYPL on iTunes
by jpreardon on April 9, 2008
The New York Public Library now has a presence on iTunes U. This makes a lot of the library’s digital content a little easier to get at. via NYPL Labs :: TUAW
Amazon S3 Outage
by jpreardon on February 15, 2008
Amazon’s S3 Service went dark for a time today. This, of course, effectively shuttered the businesses (or parts thereof) that rely on S3 for online storage. It seems that things are returning to normal, but some customers are upset–and rightfully (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
WordPress 2.3.2
by jpreardon on December 30, 2007
The 2.3.2 release of WordPress was released on the 29th of December. This release patches a security hole and fixes a few other bugs. Additionally, this release allows one to create a custom database error page. If WordPress encounters a (…)
Dopplr Launches
by jpreardon on December 15, 2007
After what seems like an extended, semi-private beta, Dopplr launched earlier this week. Since they have such a well-crafted statement on their about page, I’ll let them speak for themselves: Dopplr is an online service for frequent business travellers. Dopplr (…)
Notify NYC
by jpreardon on December 4, 2007
Notify NYC is a program to rapidly distribute notifications about emergency and non-emergency events around the city. Depending on which areas you choose to receive alerts for, you’ll get the choice of SMS, email, or phone notifications. There are four (…)
Two Hacks, One Taxi
by jpreardon on December 4, 2007
A taxi passenger recently found out how open NYC’s new taxi computers are to casual exploration. A wayward error message and some ingenuity lead to an open Internet browser and access to the computer’s file system. It’s disheartening to learn (…)