February 2012
26 posts
Student Hack: Great Google Maps App for... →
lessadjectivesmoreverbs:
It’s a desktop version of Google Maps, but you can save the current view as an image by hitting command-S and enter x2, then dragging the view across and repeat, really quickly and easily getting high-res aerial photos. Then stitch them together in Autostich/Calico or Photoshop.
It saves you screengrabbing tonnes of tiny pictures online because of the keyboard shortcuts...
January 2012
57 posts
Thought You Should See This: What The SOPA/PIPA... →
thoughtyoushouldseethis:
Lots of excitement and analysis about yesterday’s U.S.-based blackout of many major websites, including Google, Wikipedia and Wordpress. I already posted a link to Clay Shirky’s analysis of PIPA and SOPA, and unsurprisingly, other opinions have emerged in the meantime, including John Gapper’s Financial Times
This entire piece was overly pretentious. It reeks of...
