The latest version of my favourite HDR software is out.
Changes in 4.6: Latest Version 4.6 (18/Oct/2009): Updated RAW reading for newest cameras,including Olympus EP-1, Panasonic GF-1, Pentax K7, Nikon D5000 and others.
It’s still only $55 – a steal, especially when you consider current USD exchange rates.
What a friggin great idea! sendsocial takes PayPal’s idea of using your email address for payments one step further and allows you to send parcels to an email address or a twitter ID (provided the recipient has registered).
Not only is this great from a privacy perspective, it also allows you to interact with the delivery process, send status updates and similar things. Imagine receiving a tweet that says “we just delivered your parcel from @sender. You can pick it up from your friendly neighbour, Mr. Wilbour.” – genius.
The next step of course is that when you check out from any online vendor, your email address will be all that they need, both for payment and delivery. No more stupid forms where I have to pick a US state because the programmer made it a mandatory field, though useless anywhere else in the world.
Love it. When does it come to germany?
Oh – the chumby folks made the Chumby One available in germany, too!
It even comes with european plugs! (Image by Dave Winer):
I ordered two ;)
Headsoft have ported the classic ZX Spectrum game Manic Miner to the Nintendo DS!
The Story:
“The tale of Miner Willy and his incredible adventures in the mines, and then the mansions, of Surbiton is legend. But like all legends, it doesn’t tell the whole story.
Most people know Willy simply as a digger who got lucky and lived happily ever after in decadent luxury. Far fewer know the secret – suppressed for quarter of a century by the government – of how he also saved Planet Earth from alien invasion.
It wasn’t until an eccentric but dedicated historian writing a paper for a renowned academic journal (Retro Gamer issue 63) pieced together the complete saga of Willy’s heroic exploits from fragments of scattered evidence – in the form of obscure retellings of the ‘Manic Miner’ folk fable in ancient languages readable only via long-obsolete machines – that the whole truth was finally revealed.
Welcome to Manic Miner – The Lost Levels!”
Excellent! Get it now!
At least that’s what Aral Balkan thinks, and I’m tempted to agree.
“WTF?” I hear you say – what about all those years of Symbian and Windows Mobile dominating the market?
Well, these are great operating systems, and they deserve a lot of credit. But from *today’s* perspective, they bet on the wrong horse.
What makes the iPhone, WebOS and Android different are three main things:
Now the next step is affordable data roaming. I’m pretty sure this will happen over the next few years.
The first step towards this may be – strangely enough – that Amazon started selling the Kindle (US version) in the rest of the world. I heard someone from the US say yesterday that he’d be buying an international Kindle in the US (!) to use it on international trips.
If that kind of madness doesn’t trigger innovation nothing will.
