Status-QQuentin Stafford-Fraser's blogThe charger of the heavy brigade- June 21, 2008 I&8217;ve just bought a new battery charger, which recharges standard AAs or AAAs in 15 minutes. You may be able to see the grill behind the batteries - for ventilation. Yes, this is a charger with a 60W power supply and a built-in fan, which cools the batteries as they charge. It certainly seems ...http://www.statusq.org/archives/2008/06/21/1903/ 280 Slides- June 21, 2008 A small group of developers at 280 North Inc (I think there are three of them) have shown that you can do some pretty impressive stuff within a browser if you work hard enough at it. Their 280 Slides application is a Powerpoint-like presentation package which does a lot of things that you&8217;d only expect a ...http://www.statusq.org/archives/2008/06/21/1901/ Thought for the day- June 17, 2008 If you give a talk in a research establishment, is that a lab-oratoryhttp://www.statusq.org/archives/2008/06/17/1899/ Todays highlights- June 15, 2008 Here&8217;s a useful site: the Awesome Highlighter. It lets you create a short URL link not only to a page, but to some text you&8217;d like to highlight within that page. There&8217;s a bookmarklet and Firefox plugin to make it easier to use. Quite clever. Here&8217;s an example of the results. The yellow ...http://www.statusq.org/archives/2008/06/15/1898/ |