First Meetings for theyear in February at Moera and St Giles

Firstly, may I wish all NZPCA members, and others, who read this a Happy New Year. Jim Oliver is going to address both groups next month. At the Hutt, on the 13th, he is going to discuss the various graphics formats that we are familiar with – like BMP, GIF and JPG -- and perhaps a few that we don’t use so often! In contrast, the meeting in Wellington two days later will replicate the talk on Bit Torrent that he gave at Moera in November. This topic requires a broadband connection to the Internet to be effective and one using Whoosh wireless technology will be used for the occasion. Robin Hinde checked that technology out at the Christmas party and found the reception at St Giles to be perfectly satisfactory.

Both meetings should be full of interest and we all know that Jim is an excellent speaker, so we hope to see you all at one or the other --- or both!

Megabyte PDFs

As an experiment, the last three Megabyte issues are available as pdf files, by clicking on the links in the right hand column of this weblog.

These links will automatically update themselves as new issues of Megabyte are put onto the server at Openomy, but will only show the lastest three issues. We can arrange for the full backlog of isssues to be made available if people particularly want this, and they can be automatically updated on another page on this weblog.

For those that are interested, this is all done by the use of RSS - Openomy is a new, experimental service that offers 1GB of free online storage, with an open API designed so that others can write applications to manage and view the files stored there. The system allows people to apply tags to files they store there. One of the first applications written gives the ability to pull out files as an RSS feed, which then populates the list you see on the right.

Comments and questions or suggestions welcome.