I only saw 4 Fringe acts this year, two the same as last year and two new ones. Here is a quick round up of the shows. First off I saw Laura Solon: the Owl of Steven. I saw her performĀ Rabbit Faced Story SoupĀ last year which I really enjoyed. Laura does an hour of story … Continue reading Fringe Festival round-up
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Whilst filling in the form to get a yearly subscription of New Scientist, I did something I don't normally do: I read the small print. This is what it said: Reed Business Information Limited will use the contact information you provide to communicate with you on behalf of New Scientist. We may also use this information … Continue reading Subscribe to New Scientist: get Junk Mail for free!
The Perils of JavaScript Objects
A few days ago I was desperately trying to solve a bug which made no sense. In most circumstances everything worked fine, but then when you added more data, everything broke. Steven eventually discovered it was because I was overriding my JavaScript object's length attribute causing problems when trying to loop over every element in the object. … Continue reading The Perils of JavaScript Objects
Readability of your Word documents
Recently I discovered that Word can show you readability statistics about your documents. In Word 2007 onwards, go to the top left home button, and click on 'Word Options' like in Screenshot 1. Then go to the 'Proofing' option and check the box labelled 'Show readability statistics', like in Screenshot 2. You'll then need to … Continue reading Readability of your Word documents
Visualising data: File Directories
Some index.dat files record not only websites visited, but also the files on the computer (and any other devices) which have been opened. This gives an accurate account of what files have been viewed and possibly edited. Using the registry, any files accessed that are not on the C: drive can be linked to a USB stick … Continue reading Visualising data: File Directories
HCI metaphors – the Windows Recycle Bin
In user interface design it is often thought that creating metaphors and analogies to real life items helps users translate these concepts to computer versions more easily. For example the idea of a computer desktop with files and folders is directly analogous to real life desks with filing cabinets. The idea is that a user … Continue reading HCI metaphors – the Windows Recycle Bin
Visualising data: Heatmaps
I've nearly finished Webscavator, my visualisation application for the forensic analysis of user web history! The next series of blog posts will describe some of the visualisations I've used and how to code them. They are all written in server-side Python and client-side Javascript using jQuery. First on the list are heatmaps. These visualisations show the data … Continue reading Visualising data: Heatmaps
An Corran – Dinosaur Beach
Steven and I went for a three day trip to the Isle of Skye last weekend, and went to a beach near the village of Staffin called An Corran, made famous for not only being the oldest Mesolithic human hunter-gatherer site (~6500BC) on Skye, but also a place to see dinosaur footprints embedded in the … Continue reading An Corran – Dinosaur Beach
Get Demand Five working in Windows 7
Demand FiveĀ is Channel Five's online TV player, and it claims not to work on Windows 7 when you want to purchase a program to download/watch. When you try and buy the programs, the website does a check for "system requirements" and if you are running Windows 7, this will fail, like in Screenshot 1. I … Continue reading Get Demand Five working in Windows 7
How Internet Explorer stores web history
Internet Explorer stores files downloaded from the internet in a cache called Temporary Internet Files (e.g. html pages, images, CSS files). Each cached file is assigned an alphanumeric cache name. Some index.dat files serve to map the cached name with the filename and URL it came from. Other index.dat files store the userās cookies or web browser history (by default 20 … Continue reading How Internet Explorer stores web history
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