November 22nd, 2006 (
2006-11-22T23:08:29-0800)
8 Comments
I’ve been working for a week or so now on learning to build Dashboard widgets for Mac OSX. I’ve got one for the rather incredible Last.FM in the works, but since it’s quite complex I took time out for something simpler.
Announcing Twitgit! A Dashboard widget for everyone’s favourite Web 2.0 time-waster, Twitter.
Tagged: dashboard, downloads, mac, OSX, projects, twidget, twitgit, twitter, widget
Filed Under: Technology
June 27th, 2006 (
2006-06-27T13:32:07-0700)
5 Comments
The ability to download television programmes from the internet (legally) is hotting up, slowly. Unfortunately we’re heading fast in the direction of DRM, low-resolution and region-enforcement.
So, very quickly here’s what I’d like. When a series starts on TV, let me go to the publisher’s website and pre-order the series box-set DVD. Then, for the duration [...]
Tagged: downloads, dvd, tv
Filed Under: Ben Ward's Journal
May 24th, 2006 (
2006-05-24T22:39:02-0700)
10 Comments
You’re downloading an application from the net, lets say an application that you were curious about but might not turn out to be of much use to you. What’s the biggest download size you’d accept? What size of download would make you think ‘I can’t be bothered’?
Keep that figure and mind and now consider whether [...]
Tagged: database, downloads, embedded, firebird, oak, opinion, Software, sql-server
Filed Under: Technology
Ben is a 24 year old Web Developer from Cambridge and is a computing graduate of the University of Manchester.