I'm really pleased to hear that finally Multimap has opened up it's API for use by developers "to innovate, experiment and try things out". Multimap has some fantastic data and probably the best maps in the UK who else can provide vector maps and a good range of…
The RNIB web access team are putting on a free event at the Westminster University, New Cavendish street campus on Tuesday 5th June at 7pm, where Shawn Lawton Henry of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will speak about WCAG 2.0. I saw Shawn speak as part of an accessibility…
Being a habitual user of NetNewsWire I find it quite annoying that mail.app doesn't have a mark all as read button. However there is a context menu that you can use mark all mail in the selected mailbox as read. Trouble with that is that it's too clunky. I…
In more recent versions of Parallels they've added a "Pause" action in addition to "suspend". If you like to run a whole bunch of VMs at once, pause will near instantaneously put on hold the execution of the VM thus reducing the CPU usage for a…
Upgrading your parallels image to try out feisty really couldn't be easier. Simply clone the disk image you already have of Edgy and rename it so know what it is. I followed the second set of instructions found at ubuntugeeks.com First you need to update your /etc/apt/sources.…
Now that all yui library files are publicly hosted on yui.yahooapis.com it makes sense in any project you are working on to link the files from these locations. Given the widespread usage of the yui, if a user has already got any of these files in their cache…
With the development of TweetyPy I've moved to using Bazaar for version control. Bazaar is written in Python so it will work as expected cross-platform. Bazaar is different from a typical version control because it doesn't rely on having one centralised repository instead it operates on a de-centralised model. You…
I am hoping to get my hands on a happy hackers keyboard for mac in the not too distant future. In preparation I have modified caps lock to act as the control key as this is the position on the Happy hackers keyboard. This actually makes a lot of sense…