Multimap opens up it's API to developers

I'm really pleased to hear that finally Multimap [http://www.multimap.com] has opened up it's API [http://www.multimap.com/openapi/] for use by developers "to innovate, experiment and try things out". Multimap has some fantastic data and probably the best maps in…

Shawn Lawton Henry on WCAG 2.0 in London, 5th June

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…

Mark all mail as read in mail.app

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'…

Parallels tip: Upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty from Edgy

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 [http://www.ubuntugeek.com/upgrade-ubuntu-610-edgy-eft-to-ubuntu-704-feisty-fawn-2.html] First…

Bazaar Version Control

With the development of TweetyPy [https://launchpad.net/tweetypy/] I've moved to using Bazaar [http://bazaar-vcs.org/] 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…

Quicktip for mac: turning capslock into control

I am hoping to get my hands on a happy hackers keyboard for mac [http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/26/happy-hacking-keyboard-lite-2-for-mac-touts-apple-key-demotes-c/] 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…