This compact 35mm camera was one of the most technically advanced gadgets of 1930s. The 1938 advertisement declared Compass the embodiment of scientific system in miniature cameras. “Built like a watch - as simple to use.” A finely-machined aluminum bodied camera incorporating a large number of features in a tiny volume.

This compact 35mm camera was one of the most technically advanced gadgets of 1930s. It was produced by Swiss watch and clock manufacturer, also famous for its long-time partnership with luxury car makers. Jaeger LeCoultre sign can be found on…

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Allen Stern of CenterNetworks belts out a ballad to Twitter.

Over the past week, Twitter has been up and down several times. As I wrote about each outage, I started to realize just how much I am attached to Twitter and how much it really hurts deep, deep down when it's down. So I decided to create a…

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5 Megapixel phones from Nokia and Sony are no match for the growing popularity of the iPhone….and this is before 3G!

This graph is "normalized", which is a fancy way of saying that they automatically correct for the fact that more people join Flickr each day: the graph moving up or down indicates a change in the camera's popularity relative…

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Short video explaining how to use Subversion by 2 concurrent users. Includes conflict solving.

This video tries to explain the basics of how SVN is used. The buttons at the bottom are movie controls. Scroll down for conflict explanation.svn.swf

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The Taiwan-based digital camera OEM Altek unveiled an 8-megapixel consumer digital camera with built-in GPS and automatic geotagging. The camera is expected to ship by June, and will be the world’s first, according to the company.

GPS-enabled digital camera will be great for "anywhere computing" extreme telecommuters, because photos are usually geographically based. They can help you remember where you took various photos and let you build a travel…

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Dell plans to unveil “later this year” optional new hardware that will let you connected to 3G wireless broadband networks throughout the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Rather than swapping cards to switch between carriers, the Gobi solution is software configurable!

If you buy one and subscribe to the right service, you'll be able to connect within the U.S. via EV-DO networks (like those maintained by Verizon Wireless, Sprint or T-Mobile) and in Europe via HSPA networks (like…

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Denver International Airport is the biggest in the world to offer free Wi-Fi. But now a Denver newspaper reports that the connection is censored. The airport actually blocks blogs like BoingBoing and other “potentially racy sites.”

The ISP Planet blog says the airport is using the same kind of censorship technology employed by the governments of Kuwait, Oman and Sudan. The filtering product in use, according to — wait for it — the "Talking…

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