Monthly archives: October 2009

Designing the interface for a newspaper

I just stumbled on this post from Oliver Reichenstein from Information Architects about their pitch for the redesign of Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. In a world where newspapers are rapidly loosing ground to web based competition, ideas like these might help make the old paper media more relevant to readers who have grown used to the web.

Configuring OCS connectivity to GMail and Jabber

Following on from this weeks release of an XMPP connector for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (how do Microsoft come up with those catchy names eh?), the OCS team have posted some detailed information on the configuration needed to enable communications between OCS, Jabber and Gmail users.

I really need to buy myself a Jetpack…

The Martin Aircraft Company in New Zealand has developed this Jetpack… and I think I’m going to have to start saving up my pennies! Unlike the old jetpacks from the 60’s this one uses fans rather then actual rockets or jets, but it does look like it will fly for half an hour or 31 miles or so.