Sing Search
My wife and I just tried this out, and it worked 3 out of 3 times. You have to try it!
Basically, you hum a song and it finds it for you. No clue how it works.
iPhone for Business… I don’t think so
There seems to be a great debate right now on the sphere around whether the iPhone will be a business phone or not. I have an iMate JasJam, it runs Windows Mobile 5 and has all my contacts and calendars as well as an thin exchange client.
I don’t see these sort of applications on the iPhone, in fact this article and video report to show some of the business capabilities of the phone, but i struggle to recall the last time i had to zoom into a photo or see the cover art to a sinatra album during a business meeting.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great device and I want one. But not for work!
On my current phone I can schedule a meeting with a colleague or organise emails into different folders and then synch that back up with outlook on my desktop (and subsequently exchange).
The piece I might be missing is the equivalent business tools offered on the Mac environment. Do they exist? Is there an exchange style server for the Mac?
Great Australian TV Guide… from Foxtel, who’d have thought?
I was by chance looking at the foxtel website recently in an effort to see what movies were on on the weekend, and found that they have a new flash based tv guide.
I was actually amazed to be honest. The guide is fast, easy to use, can be filtered, and has all the detail of the programming in one window. It has an ajax style interface although relies exclusively on flash to deliver the result.
Right now it seems to only have foxtel channels however it has an accomodation for free-to-air channels but nothing yet populated.
I will be using this from now on, definitely worth a look.
New Theme
Have been searching high and low for a new theme for quite some time and finally found what I was looking for.
This theme has sidebar widgets capability which is great plus i love the “content front and centre” approach.
While doing this addition I decided to add a plug to manage threaded comments, so check that out. Finally am working on putting in LightBox or something similar for image management.
Your comments welcome.
Do Older People Really Need Seperate Internet Sites?
I think there is a definite need for sites for the older generation. However at the same time there is a need for education of some of the common things that we take for granted over the web.
A few examples:
- If i gave my father a URL to go see, he will type it into the Google search box, not the address bar. Then click on it once found in the search results.
- Messenger is seen as a form of email, not instant communication.
I don’t use these examples to jest, there is a legitimate need for education in these very simple tasks.
The other thing to remember however is that my mother-in-law wouldn’t want to use a site specifically targeted to old people, she would see this as condescending more than anything else.
Cool Interface!
Just been to the qantas.com website to have a look at travel dates for April. Normally I would say ‘i have to travel on the exact date’ however in this case I looked at the ‘flexible with dates’ option.
The interface that was returned presented a matrix of the departure and return dates, with all the prices on one small table. Excellent! So i can look at the prices (all the same in this case) and then pick a combination of departure and return dates with one click.
Well done qantas.com
