Do you remember Teletext

Do you remember Teletext? Do you still remember some of the page numbers of your favourite information. If so then youll be interested in this Guardian Witness project: Teletext memories: your stories and experiences. Some of this blogs younger readers probably dont even know what Teletext is. Think of it like the Web on your TV before the Web existed. 
Ceefax (in the UK) succumbed to the digital switchover nearly two years ago, but the worlds first teletext service is still remembered fondly by the slightly older TV generation. For 38 years it provided vital information to passionate current affairs readers and sports fans alike. 
TVNZs teletext service closed at midday on April 2nd 2013.

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Do androids dream of electric sheep

"Do androids dream of electric sheep?" is the title of a Sci-Fi book by Philip K. Dick upon which the cult movie Blade Runner is based. Well, Google recently investigated this question by setting up feedback loop in its image recognition neural network - which looks for patterns in pictures - thereby creating hallucinatory images of animals, buildings and landscapes. Watch the video below to see what an AI dreams of.


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Do you want to live in a Smart City

Stephen Poole in the The Guardian has written a very interesting and thought provoking long article The truth about smart cities: In the end, they will destroy democracy that presents both sides of the vision of the future smart city; the benefits of a highly connected society and infrastructure and the potential pitfalls. With online privacy and data security such hot topics at the moment its certainly easy to see how the smart city of the future could be fraught with dangers. I recommend you read it.




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Do you want a computer for 9

Cant afford a Raspbery Pi ($35), well they have a competitor now. The ultra cheap CHIP; a 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, with 4GB storage, WiFi, Bluetooth, support for most monitors and even a mobile capacity. It runs Linux and therefore supports many free productivity apps. As you can see from the picture its very small and so can be easily embedded in pieces of equipment. CHIP is a Kick Starter project and be honest for just $9 (US) can you not afford to own one.

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Do you use Internet glue

Do you use Internet glue? Do you know what it is? Basically its a web service that links two web services together; hence the name Internet glue. For example, actions  you take in your webmail system could to update your ToDo list, or add a calendar reminder. Back in January I blogged about how I use IFTTT (if this then that) to create and disseminate these blog posts. Increasingly though these systems are starting to integrate with our smartphones. IFTTT can use the iPhones location to trigger actions and can integrate with iOS reminders, contacts and the camera roll.  IFTTT has now launched on Android with a deeper set of integrations with the OS than their iOS offering. This is possible because Android has a "more laissez-faire attitude when it comes to allowing apps to extend their tentacles into core OS functions."
If you havent started using IFTTT I highly recommend you do. Not only can it smooth your workflow but it can also be fun.

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Amazon at 20 what has the online giant ever done for retail

You may not have noticed but Amazon recently celebrated its 20th birthday. You may or not be a regular user (I certainly am). It was originally billed a the "Earths Biggest Bookstore" featuring over one million titles. Twenty years later it has over 270m active accounts and claims to have more than 2m third-party vendors selling millions of products through its marketplace platform. Amazon is comfortable with the term "disruptive." Its disrupted the bookshop and publishing industries and is disrupting other retail industries. The Guardian recently published an interesting article about the impact Amazon has had - recommended.




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Why do big IT projects fail

It probably doesnt matter which country you live in youll be familiar with news stories of large government IT projects that have either failed completely to deliver or have gone seriously over budget and resulted in numerous bugs. Listen to this recent radio interview by University of Auckland Computer Science Lecturer, Paul Ralph; he says "when it comes to the public procurement of big software design projects - dont! He says the total cost of larger IT projects always cost more than everyone thinks, theyre almost impossible to accurately forecast in advance, and innovation is constantly undermined by the tender process."


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Going iPad only How to do it with the right apps and accessories

We all like to travel light, well I know I do. I never check luggage and recently spent a whole month in Europe with less than 7 kgs of luggage. The iPad is quite a powerful computer with a reasonable sized screen so its not unreasonable to consider using one as your main computer particularly if youre travelling. Youre going to need a bluetooth keyboard and carefully choose which productivity apps youll need. A recent article in Asian Efficiency gives some sensible advice o n the options available to you. If you have been thinking about of going iPad-only or making your iPad your main computer you should read this.

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