Month: February 2006

  • Virhe Solteqin kassajärjestelmässä koski yhtä kauppaketjua

    “Kauppalehden mukaan myös muun muassa Marimekko, Halonen, Tokmanni, Top-Sport, Vaatehuone ja Aleksi 13 käyttivät samaa kassajärjestelmää. Tiistaina kuitenkin selvisi, että vain Arokarhulla oli ollut ongelmia Solteqin kassajärjestelmän kanssa, koska järjestelmä ei sopinut yhteen Arokarhun jo aiemmin hankkiman viivakoodijärjestelmän kanssa.”

    HS.fi
    linkitys omani

  • Ohjelmistovirhe aiheuttanut kaupoille ehkä miljoonatappiot

    “It-palveluyhtiö Solteqin ohjelmistovirhe on saattanut aiheuttaa päivittäistavarakauppiaille useiden miljoonien eurojen tappiot. Kauppalehden mukaan kauppiaat pelkäävät asiakkaiden saaneen ostoksiaan ilmaiseksi, koska kassajärjestelmä on jättänyt ne laskuttamatta. […]

    Solteqin myymäläjärjestelmiä ovat käyttäneet muun muassa Aleksi 13, Halonen, Marimekko, Tokmanni, Top-Sport ja Vaatehuone.”

    HS.fi

  • Teens gain valuable social skills online

    “Instead of steering them away from their computers, parents should recognise that teenagers sharpen important social skills online, say psychologists and anthropologists studying internet behaviour.

    They stress that many of the traditional teenage hangouts, such as convenience stores and parks, have banned these youngsters or become viewed as unsafe. […]

    In the online communities they form, teens choose empathetic leaders rather than ones that bombard them with advice, says Justine Cassell, also of Northwestern University.”

    New Scientist

  • AsfBin – A Freeware WMV/ASF Cutting/Editing Tool

    “Because I wasn’t able to make workarounds for some serious bugs in the Microsoft Windows Media Format SDK I decided do write from scratch ASF file reader and writer by myself. After a full year of coding I am ready with the release of the totally new tool for cutting, joining and repairing ASF files with even more features than the AsfCut have.”

    Radioactive pages via VideoHelp.com

  • Keitai KunKun – Smelly "Ringtones"

    “Is the first among the world! It is news universal design in “odor” at arrival of the mail of a cellular phone!
    It is epoch-making mobile accessories to inform of arrival of the mail of a cellular phone in “odor”.Hangs it on a strap of a cellular phone, and faint odor opens at every telephone and arrival of the mail of an email for five seconds.”

    Pixen Inc. via Linkdump

  • GreyBox – A pop-up window that doesn’t suck

    “I got an idea on how to make a nice pop-up window. I thought that doing normal windows were very clumsy.”

    amik.dx/projects via Linkdump

  • Songbird

    “Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox‘s browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions.”

    Songbirdnest.com via Linkdump

  • "DMCA axes sites discussing Mac OS for PCs"

    “Apple Computer appears to have invoked the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OS X to run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.”

    ZDnet via Boing Boing

    Further proof for my “Apple is evil” case.

  • Jens of Sweden's Nano-Killer

    “[Jens of Sweden’s MP-500] is slightly shorter and thicker than the [iPod] Nano, as well as a hair heavier. It’s definitely pocket-friendly. […] It supports MP3, WMA, and OGG audio files, as well as MP4 video files. Jens even throws in a video transcoder for converting WMV, AVI, ASF, MPG, and MPEG files. […] Finally–and this is really the icing for me–the MP-500 works with Windows, Linux, and Mac. Sweet.”

    Alpha via Juha

  • WordPress 2.0.1 Released

    “It’s been exactly one month since we released the well-received WordPress 2.0 release. In the past 4 weeks we’ve been listening closely to feedback, squashing bugs wherever we find them, and watching how 2.0 handled under different loads.

    We’ve rolled up all the most important fixes into a 2.0.1 release, which is now available for download. All in all we’ve closed 114 bugs in the 2.0.1 release […].”

    WP Dev Blog