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Chess eBooks now available for download

Thanks to Everyman Chess I have been able to make chess eBooks available for purchase on this site. Currently 4 titles available, but I will be building the stock rapidly over the next few days. Purchasing is through Google Cart or PayPal which in itself presented a few interesting technical challenges.

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Seksmisja: scientists grow human sperm from stem cells

A tribute to the cult Polish 80s comedy, Seksmisja. [...] Continue Reading…

Putting a Bing Map on your Website

update : if you have arrived here via a web search (e.g. /tag/bing-maps/), please go to the main article page to see my examples in action and read my updated advice about putting maps on your blog! Looking at my analytics, I was surprised to find that some users had managed to land on my blog having searched for ‘putting a Bing Map on your website’. I assume this site appeared in search results because of the tags [...] Continue Reading…

Bing, Google, Yahoo: Blind Search

Following from my last post about Microsoft’s new search engine BING, here’s an excellent ‘taste’ test giving you the chance to enter your search term/phrase and get the results from all 3 search engines minus branding. Are you biased to your favourite brand? Try this: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ Credit goes to Michael Kordahi http://delicategeniusblog.com/ for making this.

Microsoft Bing, Because It’s Not Google (better?)

• But it’s not Google?
• Not so fast batman!
• What’s so good about it fanboy?
• What needs to improve?
• Conclusion – am I a Google2Bing switcher, is it better?

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Photosynth, HDView and DeepZoom: a new era in digital imagery?

PhotoSynth and DeepZoom, both using Silverlight technology and powered by SeaDragon, have been around for a little while now and have received much critical acclaim in the technosphere. The latest release of PhotoSynth has a number of new features and is now commercially available with Virtual Earth Bing Maps integration, the platform powering Live Bing Maps. Here is the view from one of my favourite local landmarks: SynthView – the Royal Observatory Greenwich, home of Time I took [...] Continue Reading…

Protected: 4NCL 08/09 Final Weekend, Staverton Park, Daventry

4NCL 08/09 Final Weekend: Qik Blitz at the Barcelo

I like any technology that saves time and makes things easy for the layman. Qik is a very handy software for your mobile device, that connects directly with your in-built video recorder and your online Qik account. Launch the software, press one button and you are streaming live to the web. All you need is a data-plan with decent connection and video-enabled phone. There is a big expanding list of compatible phones on the Qik website. I used a [...] Continue Reading…

Choosing the right chess viewer for your blog

It’s been a long time since I have looked for a chess viewer to put on a website. The last time I tried was November 2000 for the BrainGames World Championship between Kramnik and Kasparov: http://www.chesscenter.com/wcc2000/. Yes this was my work (mostly) and it still functions except for the ads provided by Vavo-dot-com (evidently now a ‘cyber-squatted’ url), one of the many victims of the original dotcom crash in 2001. At that time I used ChessBase7 and was saving [...] Continue Reading…

Protected: 4NCL Barcelo Hotel, Hinckley