As frankps sees the world!

The year has more or less come to an end. It has been a very exciting year for me, as I have been working with projects like accessability, web standards and Internet trends. So let me dedicate one of this years’ last blog updates to the trends that I think we will see appearing next year. And yes, you can comment on this blog now in 2008 and come back to it in 2010, and then criticize me for all the wrong predictions that I made. […] Continue reading →

A new Norwegian iPhone application is about to hit the AppStore. The application s i is a mobile service by Meteorologisk Institutt and NRK, based on their very popular web-based weather service, yr.no. The service is already available for mobile phones, and the software house Polleo made a free unofficial version for the iPhone, nWeather. nWeather had 2 147 Norwegian places (cities, towns and villages) connected with weather data from yr.no. At first that might sound impressive, but it is […] Continue reading →

Novell has summed up what Linux is all about, in a half minutes video: Copying every thing from inovative vendors, now even their commercials. […] Continue reading →

I am not much a gamer, and not a singer either. But having said that, I must add that I simply love the karaoke game Lips for XBOX 360. I saw a commercial of the game, where they played Young Folks (by Peter, Bjorn & John) and I was sold. I just had to buy the game and it was released just in time for the holiday season. My sister and her boyfriend are SingStar champions, but now I can finally be at least an outsider. I can’t wait to compete against them. It’s a social game, […] Continue reading →

I love some of the Web 2.0 ideas, Xobni and Slideshare, and how they have managed to combine desktop and cloud computing. Their add-ons to Microsoft Office applications, Outlook and Powerpoint, are simply brilliant. I am a frequent reader of WebWorkerDaily, and today I read for the first time about the Slideshare ribbon for Powerpoint 2007 (no, I don’t think it is backwards compatible with Powerpoint 2003!). Perhaps it’s time to introduce Slideshare to my scientific staff at […] Continue reading →