Entries for June 2007

Day of the iPhone release

This is the night when the iPhone is released in America. Are you dying to get your hands on one? Well, get in line. Literally. People are lined up outside the Apple stores, doing live coverage through blogs and podcasts. As expected, it's more like a show than a sales...

June 29, 2007 | Comments (0) | Filed under Web industry and technologies

New wonders of the world

About 2300 years ago, a list of seven wonders were compiled. The so called wonders of the world were spectacular manmade constructions located around the Mediterranean. They were the Khufu pyramid of Giza, hanging gardens of Babylon, colossus of Rhodes, lighthouse of Alexandria, temple of Artemis, statue of Zeus in...

June 27, 2007 | Comments (2) | Filed under Travel

Safari for Windows

Today, the WWDC 2007 was held in San Francisco and the keynote was delivered by Steve Jobs. I followed the transcript live by MacRumors thanks to a blogger in the audience, and afterwards the keynote was made available as Quicktime stream (check it out, and don't miss the blunt Ballmer...

June 11, 2007 | Comments (11) | Filed under Browsers

Return of Ostindiefararen

After two years at sea, the large ship Ostindiefararen today reached its final destination, my home town Gothenburg. It had sailed to Guangzhou (Kanton) in China and back, visiting the ports of Recife, Cape Town, Jakarta, Shanghai and many more on its voyage. I just got back from the harbour,...

June 09, 2007 | Comments (0) | Filed under Life

Movable Type becomes Open Source

Today it was announced that the next version of well-known blog authoring tool Movable Type will be available as open source. This may be a good move, since competitors such as Wordpress and ExpressionEngine has culled a fair amount of MT users during last years. The new features of version...

June 05, 2007 | Comments (0) | Filed under Web industry and technologies

Analyzing your web stats

For every web site, statistics are vital to understand your visitors. Now and then I have a look at the stats for this site, and one of my favourite things is to examine which keywords people searched for in order to arrive here. The top keyword is "pumphagel", followed by...

June 03, 2007 | Comments (0) | Filed under Mink Machine site

Google Street View

It's been about a year since my latest post concerning Google Maps, but now it's time again. Google has recently updated Google Maps with a street view mode. Just drag a little yellow man along the streets and there will be street-level photographs for that spot. I just checked a...

June 01, 2007 | Comments (0) | Filed under Digital maps