fresh + new(er)

Some readers may know that I and several members of my team are hard at work on a range of location-centric cultural sector data applications. We have been combining data sources from across the sector and government and building new ways of traversing very diverse data sets. (If you are going to be at Museums [...]

Given that I am in the market for a new phone I’ve been bitterly disappointed by the lack of truly ‘converged’ devices out here on the market. The most ‘feature rich’ have usability problems when it comes to making phone calls (touchscreen dialing! why?), and those that have really usable decent sized phone/numeric keypads force [...]

O’Reilly on the recent open source release of Racoon – a web server for the Nokia phones that run the S60 series o/s.
The potential applications are quite exciting – even the factory-included remote camera operation is pretty nifty.
Now I’m just waiting for my new phone to be ordered so we can start testing this out [...]

The Walker Art Center has a fantastic post on hacking the firmware and interface of the iPod to make them more usable in a museum setting.
Lending iPods out to patrons is much more involved than just the simple question of how you clean them, or avoiding theft (those items of business are handled by our [...]