Neal Stephenson is one of my favourite writers - so this looks good:

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I had no idea that the US embargo of Cuba included access to the Web....

An anonymous reader writes "Seems like Cuba is working around the US internet embargo by teaming up with Venezuela: A confidential contract released yesterday on Wikileaks reveals Cuba's plan to receive internet upstream via an undersea cable to Venezuela, thus circumventing the enduring embargo of the US, denying Cuba access to nearby American undersea cables and overcoming the current limits of satellite-only connectivity. The connection, to be delivered by CVG Telecom of Venezuela, is to be completed by 2010 and will provide data, video as well as voice service for both the public and governmental services."

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Hm! This is interesting - I suspect that they use a variation on the Skype conference call facility to do this....not difficult...

An anonymous reader writes "According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations."

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These guys have made a "Leduino" with some extra features added to a standard Arduino - this seems quite interesting

Buffered I2C bus for longer cable runs and higher bus current operation. So we added an IES5501 bidirectional driver.

We play a lot with designs for model railway layouts. Already we use a lot of DCC, so we figured that a standard DCC decoder input, complete with basic acknowledge facility. So we added that with full galvanic isolation both ways for convenience.

In a number of situations we use CAN Bus. Several developing or proposed model railway layout control busses use CAN, so we figured we could be compatible and give ourselves a simple development platform for that too. CAN is also used in a variety of other fields where we have some professional involvement.

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I have to say that I am really, really happy to say that NetNewsWire 1.07 for the iPhone/iPd Touch works very well! What a improvement!

I was so happy last night when NetNewsWire 1.0.7 appeared on the App Store. I was actually out with some local Mac/iPhone developers, and folks were downloading it right away, as we sat at the table. Fun for me. ;)

There is still plenty of work to do, of course — but here are the changes in 1.0.7 (since 1.0):

- Fixed several crashing bugs.

- Performance is much improved.

- Memory use is much improved, and some memory leaks have been fixed.

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This company has made a number of programs available on a memory-stick you can plug into your AppleTV, and it really seems to promise to liberate it - I may have to get one...

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How good is this:

"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."

[From Terry Pratchett]

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I would very much like a GeoCaching application for the iPhone - so I would like to add my vote for one! (There are a couple for the Mac - so there is hope)

Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone, iPhone 101

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We have a family subscription to 1Password for our Mac's - and it has proved to be a "must-have" - so I am happy to see that the developer is ready with a version for the iPhone!

Filed under: Software, iPhone

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Where I work we do a lot of usability testing - so maybe this may be useful:

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