Category Archives: Tech
Not yet masters of our own planet
The US can go to Jupiter but they can’t get men out from some ice in Antarctica. There is an article in this month’s National Geographic about a plane which crashed in the Antarctic in 1946. They were claimed by some to be the last casualties of WW2 since this happened the day before Truman […]
How to Use TestFlight to distribute Test apps in Beta
Found a useful, quick, how-to list for using Testflight to share your beta app. Cross-posting from here. 1. Create an account on TestFlight (http://testflightapp.com) and with “Developer” option checked. 2. Log in to the TestFlight web site and “Add a team” for your app. 3. Add teammates, either testers or developers. (PS. Recruiting testers from […]
Reading List – 1
A post about how Yahoo! uses the behavioural data got from their toolbar towards improving crawling. Its pretty amazing how many previously uncrawled pages are identified using this method. http://glinden.blogspot.com/2011/11/browsing-behavior-for-web-crawling.html . A review of Koyaanisqatsi which I watched with the GUPS. Its a very artsy documentary, showing some amazing bits of photographic excellence. http://enthusiasms.org/post/13850656021 . […]
The Effect of Google Instant
Quite a few of us have been using Google Instant for a while now. It is the natural progression of the ‘search suggestions’, after Google were convinced it could produce at least some useful predictions. Clearly this speeds up search and except a few irritating instances, it is a favourable development. On the other side […]
Identifying Queries which Demand Recency Sensitive Results in Web Search
Since joining University of Glasgow for my Master’s I haven’t written a blog post. The main reason for this has been the amount of coursework which I have had to wade through in the last few months. As part of a Research Methods and Techniques course in Semester 1, we had to submit a literature […]
