Month: January 2007

Apple has some of the least forward thinking environmental policies in the industry – whereas manufacturers like Dell offer recycling schemes and have reduced usage of known toxins, the folks in Cupertino continue regardless. Computers are becoming one of the bigger polluters, and it’s nice to see that Greenpeace are calling them up on this. […]

Over at the Yahoo Developer Network, they’re asking members what’s on their wishlist for 2007. Some people are asking for better or limitless APIs; some are asking for how-to screencasts; others for free T-shirts. My request would be for a standard, open API developed in conjunction with the wider web community in order to turn […]

If you’ve ever mistyped a Google search request, you’ve probably seen the “did you mean?” prompt – a really useful touch that most of us use all the time, usually without thinking about it. It would take Google a very long time indeed to process all the billions of possible search results and turn them […]

{{video:http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3318912723598074205&hl=en}} This video is kind of quaint now (it dates from 1992), but I was delighted to discover that Tim Hunkin’s Secret Life of Machines TV series is now completely available on Google Video. It’s worth remembering that in another fifteen years, everything we’re doing now is going to seem equally archaic – that said, […]