Bookmarks for June 28th through August 23rd

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Dale Nunns

These are my links for June 28th through August 23rd:

Drawing Rounded Rectangles with the Compact Framework | LieberLieber …
Notes on drawing rounded corners with .net compact framework
Finger friendly UI controls for Windows Phone | Agile mobility
.NET Compact Framework Controls, the page lists a few "finger friendly" controls for .NET Compact Framework
Compact Framework Controls Bee Mobile
Some cool .NET Compact Framework Controls
RabbitVCS
A tool for linux similar to Windows TortoiseSVN, haven't look at it yet…
DotNetZip Library
Another .NET Zip library, appears to have better support and be more stable than SharpZipLib
500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error
Heritage Restorations
Finish Barns Restorations
Make: Online : Holy smokes Iron Man costume
Awesome constume
Panoboter Bender
Awesome hardware that can be used to create virtual tours and panoramic photos
School of cooking – Pick n Pay
I keep meaning to go try this, I would love to learn to cook a few different things and I know a few people who tried this out and said it was pretty cool. When I have some free time and money I am definitely gonna give it a go, try drag the wife along.
Chocolate Studio by Lindt, Cape Town, South Africa.
Learn to cook with chocolate… interesting, if I get some free time and money I might check this out.

Uploading Pictures to Stuff.za.net

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Dale Nunns

My new phone (Nokia N78) has the ability to upload pictures taken to Flickr, so this morning I created myself a flickr account, configured the phone and tried it out.

It’s pretty cool, I can take a photo with my phone and then select an option and upload it straight away to Flickr. I’ve also found that Flickr can link to this blog, so now I can take a picture, select an option… type a short message and presto the image taken is uploaded to Stuff.za.net. It’s actually pretty cool, and it seems to work well. I must admit that I’m now slightly tempted to get Flickr Pro account, although I think I’ll wait a bit and see how much I use it first.

BTW you can see an example of all this wizardry with the OMFG post.

Can you make money with a Social/User generated content Site?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Dale Nunns

I was reading this article from Slate about user generated content and the cost of running “social” sites or other sites that contain user generated content. I’ve always wondered about the costs of running something like YouTube or Facebook and how exactly do they pay the costs of running the site.

A fun exercise is to take the content that you generate and cost it out, obviously we’re buying bandwidth in small quantities so its going to be expensive, but think about the costs.

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My Mom’s Birthday

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Dale Nunns

It was my mom’s birthday on the 8th of August and the family and a few friends went out to Panarotti’s in George for her birthday. (And no I’m not going to tell you how old she was.)