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Nice to see the visitor count rising, which shows the new engine is doing it's stuff.

The actual DB weighs in at 5mb even with 400 posts, countless links, notes, snippets, etc. plus it handles the digg-effect with ease!

Good stuff, will have to do a future post on this.

;-)

Setting up Goggle Apps as your own CDN

• Install Python
• Download Google Apps SDK
• Signup for Google App Engine and create an application
• Download CDN Example, nicely put together by Andreas Krohn of digitalistic.com
• Extract archive and edit app.yaml, changing application:digitalisticcdn to application:
• Put all the images you want to upload in the images directory, etc.
• Download Digitalistic's batchfile uploader here. Edit it so it points to your Python install directory, your Google App Engine SDK and your digitalisticcdn / customapp directory.
• Double-click on this newly edited batch file to run it, the first time it'll ask for your username & password afterwhich your files will then be uploaded (hopefully) to your newly created appengine cdn.

So after all that, you should be able to access your images via,

[application identifier].appspot.com/images/[myimage.gif]

Thanks go to Andreas Krohn of digitalistic.com for putting together the zip archive example, batch file and original tutorial.

True Multitouch demo

• NASA World Wind

A look around the Digg office

Google users in the United Kingdom will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.co.uk homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display. However, you can do something to reduce the energy consumption of your home PC by joining the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.

On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.

• Earth Hour

Right now if you're a developer you'll know about that one big gray area that is the Mobile market. I mean, how on earth can you build stuff on it as easily as you do on your pc?, so many mobiles, o/s's, it's a nightmare.

Thankfully Google have announced today the creation of the OpenHandsetAlliance to basically level the playing field.

The idea is simply to create an open-source operating system in which anyone can write software for it without being tied to a specific handset, supplier or model.

It's called Android, (or linux for your mobile) and it's a fantastic idea; let's hope it goes the distance.

Considering the iPhone is pretty locked down in terms of providers and the SDK it's a welcome breath of fresh air.

Fingers crossed...

• Official Google Blog, wheres my gphone

• Android and the Alliance