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Boxwish - Cool stuff you saw at the movies
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on July 23, 2008
We are proud to announce the launch of boxwish.com — ‘The world’s first movie inspiration site’.
Tim and the rest of Team Boxwish have been working really hard to find all of the cool things you saw at the movies, but the real driver behind Boxwish is the user generated content, it’s a community site after all.
So get involved — sign up, and get Spotting!
The future of CAPTCHA
Posted by Robin Whittleton on July 23, 2008
CAPTCHA (standing for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) must have seemed like a good idea when it was first invented in 2000. Spam was beginning to become a major problem on the web and a method was needed to fight back. CAPTCHA at first glance seems ideal: a distorted image that would be instantly recognisable by humans yet incomprehensible to machines. Place some letters in the distorted image and get the user to type them back and bingo: you’ve stopped your spam problem.
Garmin Forerunner 405
Posted by Paul Sturgess on July 18, 2008
The Garmin Forerunner 405 is a GPS running watch that actually looks like a normal watch.
But it’s not the looks that make this a runner’s best friend.
The GPS technology means it will track your run and tell you where to turn to stay on course.
Set a ‘virtual training partner’ to run against and it will tell you how far behind or infront you are.
Monitor your pace, your average pace and how many calories you’re burning.
When you’re back home it will wirelessly transmit your run data onto your pc (mac not supported yet unfortunately) allowing you to analyse to your heart’s content.
This is where Garmin have outdone themselves.
The watch can send and receive information just by by plugging in a small usb stick into your computer.
Most important though is that it’s all in a standard format and this allows for integration into various services and mashups gallore.
View where you ran on a Google map or import it into Google earth.
Create courses on websites like mapmyrun.com.
This means you can share your couses with friends and then run against the times they’ve set.
GPS is a very fashionable technology right now and Garmin are taking full advantage of it.
New iPhones for all
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on July 04, 2008
When the last iPhone was released it was a bit lacklustre as far as I was concerned. No 3G, no GPS, small memory, too expensive… Now Apple have fixed all of these shortcomings we figured it was time to jump onboard with the ‘breakthrough internet device’. In fact we decided to follow Carson’s lead and get them for everyone in the office.
