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Bergensbanen, a 7 hours train ride in HD released under Creative Commons

18-Dec-09

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 1.3 with 30 000 radio stations

10-Dec-09

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

The best of 2009

04-Dec-09

Web Design Ledger has collected a great list with the best of  2009. Head over and get inspired:

delicious tagroll for WordPress

18-Nov-09
The Delicious tagroll for WordPress plugin adds a new shortcode to WordPress, the the shortcode shortcode. The shortcode creates a tag cloud or a list of tags (see parameters below).

Free SharePoint

13-Nov-09

NetConnect recently launched the Team Portal Free Version:

The dashboard

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…

R.I.P. STSADM, PowerShell is the new king

11-Nov-09

SharePoint 2010 Management Console = PowerShell More…

Exposé in Snow Leopard

04-Nov-09

expose
More…

CSS Editor for WP and WPMU

23-Oct-09

Still work in progress, but here’s a teaser:

CSS Editor
More…

Drool Radio 1.2

15-Oct-09

Drool Radio
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/

Your site might have a backdoor, SVN is handing out the key to everyone

25-Sep-09

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>

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