Registered Call

Registered Call is an interesting idea. Simple recording of any telephone call you make with web retrieval of the call. One to help deal with the occasional call centre uppitiness.

Confluences

Confluence project is trying to visit and photograph all of the map gridline nexi in the world. The linked page is for the UK. It would be interesting to stitch these together in a scrollable globe.

Reviews of Books – UK

Reviews of Books – UK. Thanks to Jonza for the link to this nice review site. I hate the layout but love the functionality. So ner.

SkypeOut Global Rate

SkypeOut Global Rate allows you to Skype to a landline in a wide range of countries. Bye bye POTS.

Picasa is now free

Picasa is now free, since it is part of Google. I’ll take it at its word for now. I’ve heard good things about it, and certainly need help with pictures. [Update: it’s great!]

Industrial design winners

The IDEA 2004 Gallery has a pile of nicely designed items from vertical scanners to medical equipment to brands. Well worth a look to grab some ideas.

Archway redevelopment

More good news. Apparently Archway (currently a hole, but our nearest hole) is being regenerated. And coincidentally, St Modwen’s Chairman is the father of one of Caroline’s school friends.

SPF spam prevention

Now that Microsoft is to deploy SPF for Hotmail users it looks like there is some sort of standard for checking authenticity of mail senders around.More information is availableFrom POBox who invented ita related wikiNice thing about this standard – it uses the...