I’m in love with DropBox! If you’re like me, always freelancing on new machines and resorting to keeping your useful files on a USB stick – then you might find DropBox useful. If you’re not using it already, give it a go! It’s a free online storage and automatic file syncronisation tool that even has basic version control and is the easiest way to keep your important stuff backed up and updated automatically, across multiple computers.
I recently made up a truly geek puzzle for the location of a hidden birthday present. I thought I’d post it, in case any of you are feeling geek enough to tackle it:
I just returned from a trip round SE Asia to see my last project launch. Called ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects‘, it’s a joint venture between BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum to chart human history in a new way. I developed the concept for the Flash 3D object explorer with the guys at GT and built it using Flash 10′s native 3D capabilities. Users are able to explorer objects from throughout human history in a sort of 3D timeline and even make history by adding their own. Here’s the TV advert for the series:
Since it is expected to grow to up to 10,000 objects over the next 5 years, I used all the tricks in the book to optimise loading, rendering and memory management – which will bore most people to tears, so that’s for another time. Check out the Flash site itself here.
I’m in love with DropBox! If you’re like me, always freelancing on new machines and resorting to keeping your useful files on a USB stick – then you might find DropBox useful. If you’re not using it already, give it a go! It’s a free online storage and automatic file syncronisation tool that even has basic version control and is the easiest way to keep your important stuff backed up and updated automatically, across multiple computers.
