Alexia writes:
“So, Flickr extends it’s programme to give Pro accounts away to charities. Forgive me for being a cynic, how are charities really going to benefit from unlimited Flickr space? I’m fairly cynical about charities at the best of times, but the idea seems a bit hollow.”
Geez, Alexia, cut them a break. When all you have is lemons, you gotta make what you can make (lemonade requires sugar too). I don’t know of any charities that would say no to unlimited image storage space considering that they have to pay for all sorts of hosting anyway and images take up a lot of that space especially now we all have 12 Mp cameras. Charities survive on PR.
Damien writes:
“Ingenuity, it seems, thrives in environment where there’s scarcity.”
I’m somewhat speechless at the obviousness.
That said – it reminds me of a story told by an IT guy who was from South Africa. During the Apartheid years he had a lot of work because every civilised country had sanctions against South Africa for their oppressive regime. His job was to maintain computers. As software needs increased (downloaded over a 300 baud modem), he couldn’t get hardware to ship across to him so they invented all sorts of ingenious hacks to get things working including RAM bank splitters allowing you to double- and triple-load RAM banks to increase the memory capacity of the machines.
One for the news-junkies as well. The Associated Press has created an iPhone-compliant version of their site at http://apnews.com. It’s a bit US-centric but then what isn’t these days? Loads well under EDGE and plays well with kids and pets. What more could you want?