Archive for October 2010

QR Codes in Education: A Burgeoning Narrative

Since I last published thoughts on how QR Codes could be used for learning in a short audioBoo (click the link or scan the QR Code on the right), there has continued to be a growing and significant buzz about QR Codes on Twitter and in the blogosphere. A narrative is developing as ideas, experiences and [...]

Share with Delivr

I’m taking a break from writing a post about QR-Codes to share a little HTML and offer my first impressions of Delivr – a new tool that has been making the rounds on Twitter this past week. In a nut shell, Delivr combines the URL shortening/tracking services of a bitly.Pro account with a QR-Code generator [...]

Instapaper “Read Later” Button For Your Blog!

Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while now or have followed me closely on Twitter, will probably know that I am a huge fan of Instapaper. For the uninitiated, it is a service that allows you to save articles to be read later that you can access from your iPhone, [...]

Notational Velocity ‘Forked’!

Having written a post only a few weeks ago about Notational Velocity, I was elated to read a brief posting from Shawn Blanc about a ‘forked’ version of my favourite writing app. The altered and improved version was developed over at the elastic threads blog. It adds the following UI goodness to an already fantastic [...]

Stephen Fry on Language

Thought provoking words, clean typography and clever (yet simple) animation combine to make a stunning piece of video. Watch and enjoy!