Technology

Click on this link here …and you’ll see the JSON data for one of my recent shots on PicasaWeb. Google have been working on improvements for the Buzz API. I am having a play and wondering if anyone knows how I could render this to a nice little web page. I will work out how best [...]

Exciting week for a techie like me

by NickL on December 8, 2010 · 1 comment

Chrome is dominating the news this week in many ways with the announcement of release dates for Chrome OS, a new version of the Chrome Browser and Chromedeck which is a new Web App from the brand new Web Store. Lots to play with over the Christmas period as often is the case. I’ve had [...]

Evernote 4

by NickL on December 7, 2010 · 0 comments

I have long been a fan of the Evernote series of software from www.evernote.com for note taking, project planning, research and keeping these things all under one roof as it were. Today I downloaded the new version for Windows, now at Version 4 and last week I updated my Android app to the very latest. [...]

Grabbing GPS data from a Jpeg

by NickL on July 30, 2010 · 0 comments

I am slowly gettng going on a new project and one of the challenges I have is to extract GPS data from a JPEG file which I think I’ve cracked. More on this later.

Getting started on a new web project

by NickL on July 30, 2010 · 0 comments

The hardest part of starting any project I’d say would be, well, starting it! You have your ideas of how the end product should look (the “B”) but sometimes, as often is the case with web projects, the “A” can be tricky enough before you can even consider getting well and truly under way. I [...]

Bleeding Heart

by NickL on May 16, 2010 · 0 comments

The Dicentra Spectabilis or “Bleeding Heart”  is a truly stunning flower and since planting it in our garden as a tiny sapling about three years ago, it has presented us with a resplendent display of delicate pink flowers, year in, year out.

Being a web developer and photographer, I have decided to have a good play with JQuery which is fast becoming the next best thing to sliced bread in the Web world. I am having fun. In fact I haven’t had this much fun since I played with sprites and machine code on my old Commodore [...]