The first anti austerity protest is taking place in Helsinki today. The rain was bucketing down which wasn’t an auspicious start.
I’m flying to Ireland later on. I’m hoping that there won’t be too many delays at the airport and for the flight to Dublin.
This is a cool tool if you are editing text. It checks the grammatical accuracy of your writing. It is possible to either type in the tool or paste your writing to have it checked.
So far, it is only available online. There are plans for an offline application in the future.
I read about an update an update to the Uploadr tool from Flickr. In the past, this tool has been cumbersome and inefficient. However, this new tool is working very well for me so far. I just pointed it at an external drive and it’s working well so far. It is possible to view photos by date uploaded or by date taken which extracts the exif information from the photo.
Unfortunately, I used some terrible photo editing tools in the past and in many photos, that information is wiped.
So now I’m on the hunt for a good tool that can batch update exif date information. So far, apart from a couple of command line options, I haven’t found anything.
The photos are all uploaded to private mode so only you will see them. If your computer or backup option goes wrong, this is one option that can help.
This page explains the tool and how it works in more detail.
Steven Levy on getting ideas going.
It’s as if we’ve broken the ice with the worst possible idea, and now that the discussion has started, people suddenly get very creative. I call it the McDonald’s Theory: people are inspired to come up with good ideas to ward off bad ones.
Another pearl from Seth Godin.
Just finished a podcast series of his this week called the Startup School. Excellent insights in 15 parts that Seth gave into starting a business.
iTunes link to the podcast
I love this article, a neat and practical way of developing the world in which we live.
http:// http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/06/missing-maps-human-genome-project-unmapped-cities
Whether the goal is to prevent cholera or crime, Missing Maps is a crucial first step. For much of the developing world, our current digital maps may as well say ‘Here there be dragons.’ There’s a long way to go, but someone has at last picked up a sword.
Secure Digital eXtended-Capacity (SDXC) memory cards have a maximum theoretical storage capacity of 2 terabytes, and today the industry just got one step closer towards hitting that limit. SanDisk has announced the world’s highest capacity SD card for photographers and videographers: the 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO® SDXC UHS-I card.
Hmmm, when will the 1TB card be coming?
A fascinating article around photography and the World Trade Centre. I totally agree that photographing the banal will be valuable in the future when that life is gone.
In the summer of 2001, Konstantin Petrov took hundreds of digital photographs, mostly of offices, table settings, banquettes, sconces, stairwells, kitchen equipment, and elevator fixtures. Many shots were lit by the rising sun, with the landscape of the city in the background, gleaming and stark-shadowed, more than a hundred floors below.
Inside the World Trade Center
“It’s a big lesson to all of us,†Don said. “Take picture now of what we have.â€
Duolingo which is a fantastic language learning tool (I have it on my phone). It’s perfect for short bursts of brushing up on a language in small 10 minute sessions.
Now, I just found this post on Reddit that they have added Irish.
It’s still in beta so it can only be used on your computer. Once, it has come out of beta, it will be available on the mobile app.
Cool!
It’s hard to believe that it’s three years since the attach on Utøya by Breivik already. I remember watching the news reports from a hotel room in Paris.
Today on Reddit, there is a fascinating AMA (Ask Me Anything) with one of the survivors of the attack. Very interesting questions and answers about the event and the aftermath.
The top rated one is the following:
[–]theinternetaddict 872 points 10 hours ago
What is one thing about this whole event that will stick with you the most?
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[–]Lordofseagulls[S] 2664 points 9 hours ago
There was this one girl I got to know. The day before the attack she told me about her older sister who died before she was born. She told me that her purpose in life was to live the life for her sister. She died the next day.