Week 270 - Interesting links

Microformats | weblog | Getting Started With microformats2

This is a great introduction to microformats2 from Barnaby Walters. — CR

Official Google Blog: Save more with Google Drive

We’ve lowered the price of our monthly storage plans to $1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB

This makes Drive quite a bit cheaper than Dropbox for 100GB. Drive is now around £14.33 a year (12 months at $1.99/month) versus Dropbox’s £71.93 (12 months at $9.99/month). — CR

Gitbox — The version control app on a Mac

This git gui for the Mac looks interesting. I’ve previously dabbled with gitx, gitk and github.app but none of them keep me coming back. Maybe this one would? — CR

What browser am I using?

This looks good. A potential alternative to supportdetails.com. One difference between the services appears to be that this gives you a URL you can give to people, while supportdetails.com relies on you exporting the data or emailing it from the interface. — CR

Google News Archive Search

This is fascinating. A searchable archive of old newspapers. I just searched for “Ramsgate” and discovered articles in Canadian papers from the second world war when the Granville Hotel was temporarily converted to a Canadian hospital. — CR

9,125 days later

This is a great article by Jeremy Keith. I’ll give you a little taster but recommend reading it in full.

That’s another killer feature of the web: you don’t need anyone else. You can publish to this world-changing creation without asking anyone for permission. I wish it were easier for people to do this: entrusting your heritage to the Yahoos and Pownces of the world is seductively simple …but only in the short term. — CR