Richard Burley » Fun & / or Cool http://richardburley.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing... Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:30:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Help BBC Map UK Mobile Coverage! http://richardburley.com/help-bbc-map-uk-mobile-coverage/ http://richardburley.com/help-bbc-map-uk-mobile-coverage/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:18:30 +0000 Richard http://www.richardburley.com/?p=695 Another great project by the Beeb that we can all support!

If you, or anyone you know, has an Android mobile phone please grab the, free & safe, “UK 3G Survey” app from the Andoid marketplace and help contribute to the first realistic picture of 3G coverage! That’s it, you need do no more, it’s all automatic once you download and install the app on your phone.

More here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13874818

 

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Any film lover will agree this is pretty exciting, and whilst we’d all love Ridley Scott to make the new stuff it looks like this honour / privilege / responsibility is, perhaps strangely, going to go to the team which put together 2009′s “The Blind Side”. At least this means we are unlikely to see a lack of emotional depth in the Blade Runner “before & / or after” productions, and in a way the emotional isolation & then re-discovery of the characters in The Blind Side could well be said to, in some ways, mirror that of the Deckard / replicant emotional journey / cycle.

Origami at the ready people…

More on this story here.

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It’s similar to Scrabble, except you play against everyone else in the world at once, on an infinitely growable board!

It’s hard to fully explain, but try it and I think you’ll be impressed!

(For the geeks amongst us it’s one of the first, large, applications to be created using “Node”, a new web application development platform, which specialises in realtime communications & rendering, which is how I stumbled across it)

]]> http://richardburley.com/wordsquared-com-node/feed/ 0 Support DRM Free Music & Get Radiohead’s New Album for £6! http://richardburley.com/support-drm-free-music-get-radioheads-new-album-for-6/ http://richardburley.com/support-drm-free-music-get-radioheads-new-album-for-6/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:55:29 +0000 Richard http://www.richardburley.com/?p=615 You can have a real impact on DRM in music today, and cast a vote for a fairer, better, more environmentally friendly music industry, by ordering Radiohead’s new album “King of Limbs” today, directly from their website; http://www.thekingoflimbs.com

Furthermore, the MP3 version of their album is only £6 and the WAV version only £9!

In my humble opinion they not only make great, original, music, but they are leading the way to a better tomorrow for all fans of artist driven music!

Order now to get in on the day of release (I have!) & be part of the continuing music revolution!

http://www.thekingoflimbs.com

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URL shorteners are very useful things in our modern world & I like Google.

Thusly, I hereby encourage everyone to use this new service from Google for all their URL shortening requirements!

It also tracks how many times your shortened URL is clicked and presents this usage data in a really clean & clear way. Bonus!

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]]> http://richardburley.com/raw-resources-diagram/feed/ 0 Online Communication & Collaboration http://richardburley.com/online-communication-collaboration/ http://richardburley.com/online-communication-collaboration/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:12:27 +0000 Richard http://www.richardburley.com/?p=337 There are a couple of great tools I use which may help others;

DimDim : Free, No Install, Registration required to “Host”, Voice, Video (20 people) & Desktop Sharing.

TokBox : Free, No Install, Registration required to “Host”, Voice & Video (20 people) but no Desktop Sharing.

TeamViewer : Free, Install Required, No Registration Required, Voice & Video (1-to-1).

Clearly DimDim is the winner at the moment, I’ll update if / when this changes! :-)

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- Online Text Case Changer
- What’s my IP?
- Online HTML Email Protector
- Free Fonts

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