2009-02-01 (Sunday)

Links

1. Corner Cottage, St Ives

   We stayed here this past week. Lovely little place, great location, sleeps up to five. St Ives was great, if wet, this time of year: quiet, friendly, beautiful and tasty.

2. Fraser Speirs – On the Flickr support in iPhoto ‘09

   I know Speirs could be accused of bias but it doesn’t sound like iPhoto ‘09’s Flickr integration is going to be any use to me at all. Sounds awful. (via Daring Fireball)

3. Mathusalem - Google Code

   Interesting-sounding backup utility for Mac OS X. Backs up in the background to “local drives, iDisk, WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP, SFTP or Amazon S3”. Maybe for when StrongSpace finally disappears. (via Tom Taylor on Twitter)

4. FreeAgent - Online accounting for freelancers and small businesses

   Another online thing for freelance types, this one for accounting. Lots of UK-specific stuff.

5. YouTube - The T-Mobile Dance

   An IprovEverywhere type stunt as an advert but very nicely done. I love how the participants only gradually join in. (via Preoccupations)

6. ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD

   A follow-up to the previous link on why keeping your stuff on servers run by other companies is a recipe for trouble. I try to avoid this but some things, like Flickr, make me nervous. (via Blech)

7. ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse

   Catching up on stuff… AOL Hometown shut down and wiped all its users’ sites with four weeks’ notice. It’s bad enough when chunks of the web disappear, but worse like this. (via Simon Willison)

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