Monday, March 3, 2003

Digital camera + GPS FINALLY!!!!!! You can now know precisely where you were when you snapped those holiday pics with a new 3.2 megapixel digital camera from Ricoh that comes with a slot for an optional GPS card that will automatically stamp each picture with the exact location of where it was taken. The RDC-i700G is currently only available only in Japan. Read [Translated from Japanese using Babelfish] [Gizmodo] Now, when will iPhoto do something with this data? Show me photos in NY at Christmas! 9:42:34 AM

SMS abbreviations sneak into school essays I can almost read this... A British student is arguing that her essay, written in SMS shorthand, should receive a passing grade: "My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 : kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc." LinkDiscuss (via Die Puny Humans) [Boing Boing] 9:41:24 AM

NewsDesk 0.9 is now available Major new features in this release: Preloaded with 58 popular news and weblog channels! Add channels from NewsIsFree with the Add Channel Wizard! (requires a free trial NewsIsFree account) Import channels from OCS and OPML channel directories with the Add Channel Wizard Search the entire NewsIsFree channel directory by category, language, or keyword (requires a free trial NewsIsFree account) Tutorials! Other new features: The channel now shows the number of unread headlines in the tree view. You can use proxy servers that require authentication. You can use the odd and truly rare proxy server that requires HTTP 1.0. When you know the URL of a channel, it's even easier to add that channel to NewsDesk (see File | New Channel). Subscribe/Unsubscribe have become less important, and may be removed in a future release. Their only purpose in this release is to enable/disable automatic update for individual channels. Bugs fixed in this release: NewsDesk now reads all RSS flavors (0.9x, 1.0, and 2.0) OPML and OCS export now correctly set the appropriate file extension on the export file. NewsDesk is much more conservative when getting new headlines. There was a bug that caused NewsDesk to update channels every 5 minutes (or whatever you set your update interval to) after it passed it's scheduled update time. NewsDesk normalizes export file names. NewsMenu shows, but does not try to open RSS headlines that have no link. NewsDesk now reads channels with FOAF elements, though it does not take advantage of FOAF elements. [NewsDesk Updates] 9:29:38 AM