The original Jonny 5 is for sale! Amazing!

100 blogs in 100 days!

Ben over at Openswitch started a little challenge for him self a few days ago, to blog about 100 new blogs in 100 days. Well today he chose me! Yup, Electric Weekend got featured! Thanks Ben!!!

The Items We Carry

Over the last few days I’ve been seeing a flickr group called The Items We Carry. I’ve finally contributed my own photo to the group, so you can see what I carry with me, pretty much all the time.

I find this kind of thing fascinating. It really interests me what people carry [...]

Missing Potter (spoilers)

Jk Rowling has spoken about some of the bits she had intended to include in the 19 years later part of the last book. If you haven’t read it yet, don’t read it, but if you have then go ahead.

Dirty Car Art

What do you do if you see the back of a car thats caked in dirt? Right “clean me!”? or something similar? How about making a work of art?

jealouscomputers.com

It seems computers are getting jealous of the new “smart” phones.
All over the internet reports are flooding in of angry computers attacking their owners. A closer look reveals they all have one thing in common: a new Nokia N95 was on the scene of each incident.
I was looking at getting one of these, I’m [...]

Facebook fraud?

Mark Zuckerberg the creator of Facebook has had a law suit for fraud filed against him. The ConnectU owners claim that
The ConnectU founders claim that while at college Mr Zuckerberg agreed to finish writing computer code for them, but that he stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas.
Wonder what will happen to the [...]

Shuffle Roulette

I got emailed this little comic strip this afternoon. Thought I would share it with you all.

Safari Keyboard Shortcut

I don’t know if this is purely OS X specific or if it’s purely Safari specific, but I just found a nice little shortcut. Pressing option (alt) and tab takes you to the top of the page, a useful little tip!

Mercury Music Prize Nominations

The Mercury Music Prize nominations have been announced. I’ve not heard of most of the bands, but the one I have heard of I believe should get it. They followed up their debut last year with another great album this year.
Sheffield band the Arctic Monkeys have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, [...]

My Top Websites

While I’ve been thinking about stuff to write for this place I was thinking about what I like to do concerning the internet. The thing I most like to do is find new websites/blogs etc. It fascinates me what is out there and how they look etc. So I thought it might [...]

getleaflets.com

I’ve seen a few “iPhone apps” around but this one seems to be the best thought out one. I know I will probably be making use of it once I get my iPhone, a while off yet though!

gSync goes live

Macness have released their final version of gSync. An app that allows bi-directional syncing of iCal and Google Calendar. I have been using it for most of it’s life through beta and can say it works perfectly. As an added bonus, in comparison to the similar Spanning Sync, it is priced much [...]

iPlayer for all?

Looks like the BBC are making steps to get their iPlayer out on platforms other than Windows XP.
A version for Apple Macs could be available in autumn, with versions for Window’s Vista and mobile devices to follow, he said.

Sony, meet Last.fm

Last.fm has signed a deal with Sony BMG to add their entire music catalogue to the online music service. It makes Last.fm the biggest online “radio” service.

Google apps to add security software

Google is making more steps to take on Microsoft.
The search engine giant said the deal would allow it to provide more companies with web-based services similar to its Google Apps package.
Looks like they are really going for it now with the whole online apps market to replace desktop clients.

Official Re-design

I’m calling this version 5.0 of Electric Weekend even though I’ve been through a few different sets of clothes in the past. Although it is not a theme I have coded entirely myself, but a modified version of Depo Clean, I’m still really pleased with it. I’ve altered added and changed a fair [...]

Keyboards and GUI’s

Interesting article from the Firefox guys about GUI and GKUI’s. I’m a big fan of Quicksilver and am getting more and more into my workflow.

University Website

A great design for a University website. I really liked the styling and the way it just fits nicely into the student culture.

iPhone returns, anyone else? Thought not!

Someone took their iPhone back complaining it was expensive and that it’s battery sucked. Now, I’m not in the states and can’t comment, but I’ve read people saying his network is worse and more expensive than the iPhone deal.