I am a big fan of podcasts, here is a handful of really good podcasts that I’ve been listening to over the last month on my commute to work. If you use Google Reader (With Google Listen), you can quickly subscribe to this via the bundle I created.
Founders talk is a really good because it interviews really interesting and influential people from the world of the web. Some of the notable people interveiwed include Drew Wilson (the guy who made Pictos & Screeny) & Vitalty Friedman (The editor-in-cheif of smashing magazine).
Average Duration: ~ 60 minutes Release Schedule: Weekly
The Javascript show is a great round up of all the newest Javascript goings on in the Javascript world. It’s a great source to find out about new libraries & Javascript news. The key reason I love this show is because they cover a wide variety of useful tools & I always start using the libraries and tools they mention.
Average Duration: ~45 minutes Release Schedule: Weekly
I’m not a massive fan of ExpressionEngine (I am a much bigger fan of CMS’s such as Perch or WordPress), however their podcast is really well put together & really high quality. While it does have a big focus on creating websites in EE, most the stuff they talk about can be applied to working with any website.
Average Duration: ~35 minutes Release Schedule: Weekly
The Changelog podcast is great , it covers web and desktop development & the hosts appears to be quite well connected (So they interview some pretty interesting folk).
Average Duration: ~30 minutes Release Schedule: Weekly
AMD recently announced it will start using easy peel laptop stickers, which is great news if your anything like me and can’t stand having a new laptop being covered in “Windows Vista” or “If you need help, visit out website” rubbish. However, lots of stickers on laptops can be a pain to remove (and degrade over time).
The best way to remove stickers which aren’t easy peel is nail polish remover (I used Nails Inc Nail Polish Remover 250ml). Here is the method I use:
I’m sure most of you have watched Minority Report and thought that the computer interface they use in it is pretty awesome. But have you ever wondered how long it will be until we have a system like that available for the average user?
I recently received a question regarding why I have taken down the tags on my posts. The reason was because watched a video from google (Also embedded below) which made me wounder how much they are benefiting (and being used by) my users. After a brief test (I watched how many people were using the tag pages) I found that very few users actually were using them.
The best way to summarize what I found would be:
For every 246 human users clicking a link on a page, 1 would be clicking a tag link.
