Zinio Inside – simple and free
Filed under: Conversation, Green computing, New Web Creations
The new service from Zinio – Zinio Inside – lets you now search through 50,000 magazine back issues online.
For avid green computing product research, tracking the latest trends or just finding out about that article you missed but everyone is talking about…use Zinio Inside.
You can refine your search by language and country – and buy the publication on-line for keeps.
We searched for netbooks/UK and got 83 results back.
We searched for childcare/UK, another professional interest in our partnership and returned 371 results.
The simple, elegant web. Is this the end of printed media as we know it?
‘Environmentally conscious, Zinio supports sustainability through it partnership with over 850 major consumer brands available digitally and delivered on behalf 300+ leading publishers…’ See the Zinio home page here
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Open Street Map – growing and growing
Filed under: Conversation, Green computing, New Web Creations, Web services
This post is with thanks to the team at TechCrunch…we hadn’t come across Open Street Map resources before.
We do use location data in our work, but only as a ‘look and see’ feature before implementing a bespoke design.
However, we can see the potential of OSM as an open source application. As a lay user of maps we think the detail offered by OSM is better than some larger/licence heavy alternatives.
‘OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth’.
You can see the TechCrunch original post in full here.
The diaries and GPS traces featured on the OSM site are great evidence of a user community developing a resource for open use. We support Open Source applications wholeheartedly at Thirdsectorweb.
Out and about with your bike and GPS locator – this is for you.
Need a OSM logo on your tee-shirt or mug – go here.
You can visit the Third Sector Web home page here…
‘…my old bamboo’ – surely not?
Dick van Dyke sang about his ‘…old bamboo’ in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – he could never have visualised back then the innovative use of this renewable resource in the 21st Century.
Asus have recently announced the forthcoming delivery, in the US and Europe, of a bamboo version of the Asus notebook range.
When it arrives it will be in two versions – 12.1 inch and 11.1 inch, both with Intel® Core™2 Duo processors and fitted with DDRII RAM. The versions will weigh 1.57 and 1.25 kilograms respectively. To be priced as a premium item we suspect.
Both machines will use the Asus Super Hybrid Engine which can extend battery life between 35% and 70% compared to other notebooks with the same specifications, offering Asus users a power boost to their systems performance by up to 23%.
You can read the full Asus press release here. Watch this space for more news about launch dates.
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Hakia – a librarians search engine
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
A new beta search engine ‘…brings search results from credible sites recommended by librarians’.
An interesting search engine which offers a nicely presented, plain tabbed interface for all results, credible sites, news and images. There is also a ‘meet others’ tab to explore Hakia’s social networking capability.
Hakia galleries offer A to Z listings of everything from actors to cities, countries and television shows. As a research tool this aspect of Hakia is for our team, its most useful function.
You can read about Hakia’s semantic web approach to search on the Hakia blog.
Hakia organises information in an intuitive way, with its ‘credible’ pages offering a well defined and clear breadth of content for the serious researcher. It isn’t Google, but could become your ‘quiet’ project information source by stealth, we reckon.
Other search engines we have featured on this blog – Cuil, Opera and Google.
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One Laptop per Child – give one get one from Amazon.co.uk
OLPC is a programme designed …to create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
Trumpeted across the net this week as being available in Europe from Amazon.co.uk, you can in fact pre-order your machine and contribute to the e-welfare of world children by securing your delivery for release on December 16th. 2008.
This is a great concept. We hope the vision of the project founders can now be achieved, with the help of Amazon.
You can see the OLPC vision video on Flickr.
You can read here how the last distribution programme got 150,000 units into the hands of children. With the help of Amazon, even more will benefit this year.
You can order your laptop in the U.K. here.
The home page of Thirdsector Web is here.
Designing a web page in just over two minutes…
Recently asked by someone in a client organisation ‘…can I design my own web pages?’ I was thinking of a short answer that would convey the team complexity of compiling code for the bespoke sites we build, as well as an illustration of how the ‘engine’ of web formatting works to deliver even the most simple of page structures.
I was lost for words for a bit – but this time lapse film from Jeffrey Way, who is the editor of NETTUTS and site manager for Theme Forest says it all.
It does have a beguiling beauty I think, but is a perfect illustration of how our team of coders make the complex ordinary.
This post was written by Tim Smith, partner at SmithMartin LLP.
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Basic programming for the kids?
Microsoft Labs have recently launched SmallBasic. This is a small and easily learned programme for children to develop coding skills.
We think that adults who would like to get to grips with ‘code’ will also find it useful.
Basic has been around for forty years or so now. Microsoft see that… ‘Small Basic derives its inspiration from the original BASIC programming language, and is based on the Microsoft .Net platform. It is really small with just 15 keywords and uses minimal concepts to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible…’
Have a look at the Microsoft SmallBasic page…writing code is not for every web user, but this is a great way to start.
Microsoft have also produced a short, friendly ‘how to’ document as well. (See adjacent image…)
Works with Windows XP and Vista. Requires .NET Framework 3.5
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