UPDATE: The 1080i 50P ProRes file is available as a torrent (NOTE, it’s a 246GB file !)
Friday November 27th over 1,4 million Norwegians watched parts of “Bergensbanen” on NRK2. The longest documentary ever? At least the longest we have made, almost 7 1/2 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to the capital of Oslo.
.. source: http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/
To wet your appetite, here’s a 10 minute video, from Finse:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql2qXpNVTjw[/youtube]
Facts:
- 7 hours continues front view recording.
- Recorded on a Sony 700 camera in XDCAM HD 1080 50i.
- Available as 720 50P, 1280×720 version, 22 GB file, and as a 1080i 50P ProRes file (NOTE, it’s a 246GB file !)
- Released under Creative Commons
Trivia:
For more information, and the download, head over to http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/
Drool Radio version 1.3 is available.
What’s new:
- Drool Radio is now integrated with SHOUTcast.com
- You can now listen to 30 000 radio stations from around the world
- Set volume on Radio Alarm Clock
- Support for ACC+
- Stops playing when you remove the headset
- Stops playing when removed from docking station
- Other minor bug fixes
Web Design Ledger has collected a great list with the best of 2009. Head over and get inspired:
NetConnect recently launched the Team Portal Free Version:

Now you can make use of SharePoint to share information, documents and tasks with others – free of charge. Invite as many members as you like to your Team Portal site.
Key features
- Hosted SharePoint
- User friendly dashboard for managing sites, people and resources
- Create tasks and assign them to other members – track the progress
- Online document and file sharing with document check-in and check-out for efficient document collaboration
- Discussion forum
- Shared team calendar
- No software installation
- Limited to 50 MB storage and one SharePoint site per account. Upgrade possible for more storage and more sites
More…
Still work in progress, but here’s a teaser:

More…

Drool Radio 1.2 is now in iTunes App Store! Drool Radio is now available in most of the world in both paid and free version. New in this version include:
- Station list database updated, now more than 1.400 stations.
- “On screen controls” added to the horizontal view replacing tap to stop/start.
- Last played station is selected when starting up.
- Option to Auto-Play last played station on start up.
- Option to Shake to play random radio station.
- Volume now gently fades from 0% to “last used volume” when Radio Clock Alarm rings.
- Volume is set to 80% when connected to a docking station.
- The amount of time Drool Radio tries to re-connect when loosing connection to a radio station has been increased.
- Other minor changes and misc bug fixes
Version 1.3 is in development. When launched, Drool Radio will have more that 25.000 radio stations!
Also see my article at http://soderlind.no/archives/2009/08/26/a-must-have-drool-radio-for-iphone/
A lot of sites have forgotten to protect their SVN. It’s easy to check if your site is open for grabs, just see if you can access http://YOURSITE/.svn/entries
To protect your site, add the following to your .htaccess file:
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L]
ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden"
</ifmodule>