42 posts tagged “sydney”
Sydney Morning Herald already picked up Meraki earlier in the year. But now they also pick up Free Sydney Wireless, and interviewed yours truly…
“Frustrated by the NSW Government’s stalled free wi-fi project, a group of Facebookers have decided to start their own.”
“Free Sydney Wireless’ next recruiting drive will be in March at Barcamp, an informal web developers’ get-together. “We will try to set up a wireless net at Barcamp using Merakis, in the hope that it spurs more people to install their own Meraki.”
Read all at SMH.com.au
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This is one of those little gems in the center of Sydney, where people just pass by without noticing while shopping in Pitt street: The State Theater. I haven't been inside yet myself, but the entrance itself is already pretty amazing. Kind of reminds me of the Tuchinsky theater in Amsterdam (but not the outside). Hope the rest of the interior is as amazing.
The Sydney Apple store looks right on track for an opening in March, as outlined by this SMH article last year.
Dress up for summer as Google Street View is coming to town! A Google branded car (although a pretty small label) has been spotted and snapped. Google Street View raises privacy concerns, but since all is happening out on the streets, in public, anyway, when would it be a privacy issue? It is a cool feature, for house hunters as well as tourists, and I bet some pretty interesting mash-ups will surface over time. Hopefully they don't stuff it up like with the Australia Day fly over though. And when will they fix the CBD satellite images anyway?
Let's hope it's going to be a hot summer...
There's a new, social weather site, cumul.us. How does that work? YOU predict the weather. "Cool" idea. Sign up and change the city to Sydney, because it's pretty lonely out there, and I might be wrong about the weather.
A grassroots movement is setting up a Sydney-wide free wireless network. Well, that's the idea, but they need your help. You too can help make the network grow, by adding a Meraki repeater (US$ 49) to your home. In addition, if you have a broadband connection, and you never fully use your bandwidth, you could share your connection with the same Meraki device (the idea is that every couple of Meraki repeaters can wirelesly connect to a Meraki internet gateway). That way we could get Wifi for free across Sydney, without councils spending taxpayers money. Because we would pay ourselves. Actually the only expense would be the Meraki device, because we already pay for the internet connection (which we would then share).
In times when people are looking to save money, an internet connection may well be on the list of things which might get canceled. If a more fortunate neighbor would share their bandwidth, people wouldn't need to give up internet access (although maybe tune it down to just necessary communication). If you're on Facebook, check out the Free Sydney Wireless group or check out the blog.
As a follow up from earlier in the year, the Sydney Apple store won't be for this year anymore, but rather somewhere first half of next year, as outlined by this SMH article. Hmm, maybe in due time to release the iPhone down under?
Of to WDS07, four days of web overload. The busiest week of the year, it seems. Tuesday a Beginning Ruby on Rails workshop, to get a kickstart into RoR. Wednesday Mobile Web design and development for a pocket internet. And Thursday and Friday the conference with a divers range of topics from Transcending CSS to Mob rules. And to tip it of a Saturday evening WebJam with the coolest kids in town. Oh, and it's a long weekend, so Sunday night we'll be going to the Afterlife party, so by then Monday will be an all-day-in. Can't remember the last time I was being so social.
After last weeks Apec city lockdown, it was open house at our neighbours at Kirribilli and Admiralty House. Didn't think we would be allowed to take pictures so didn't bother bringing a camera (you weren't allowed to take pics inside the houses, but were allowed outside. So just some crappy phonecam pictures which didn't turn out too good). There was quite a queue for entering the houses. but not that they were queuing into and past our street like last year. After last weeks Apec, I was expecting some bag checks or something, but actually there was nothing. All very relaxed. The gardens and the view are fabulous. Kirribilli House is pretty small though, a common cottage (I mean in comparison with Admiralty House next door). There were school bands playing, and cool drinks and snacks available. Nice to get to know the neightbours (or at least their gardens).
