Kris Khaira

What I like about LinkedIn is you can just reply to LinkedIn messages from your email client. Takes away the hassle of logging in.

Apple has a page where you can listen to samples of the normal sounds your DVD drive makes, so you can find out if your drive is making that extra burp or hiccup. Quite smart. Icons next to the list of sounds would make it easier to read. How else would you design it?

Great news for web developers working with clients on a budget. Beanstalk, the hosted Subversion solution, just upgraded their free plan from 10MB to 100MB. This is the happy mail I got in my inbox today:

This is an update for all Beanstalk account owners who are currently on the FREE plan. Today we upgraded storage on all free accounts from 20MB to 100MB.

We hope this upgrade will allow you to use Beanstalk more effectively and utilize larger repositories while you get to know the system.

You may also consider upgrading to a paid plan, which includes:

• SSL encryption (https) for SVN
• FTP deployments: http://tinyurl.com/ftpdeploy
• Web hooks: http://tinyurl.com/bx23fl
• More storage, users, and repositories

Please reply to this email if you have any questions or feedback.

Thanks,
Chris Nagele
Founder, Beanstalk
http://beanstalkapp.com

Check out this kung fu short film called The Sacred Heart. It was shot on a mobile phone and is the first episode from the Motoreel Phone Films series that was produced by Motorola to encourage people to shoot with their mobile phones. Mobile phones have always had inferior video recording features but this film seems to exploit that to give it a vintage feel. All of the sound effects are also edited in. It’s making me think of possibilities…

Watch the rest of the Motoreel Phone Series:

• Episode 2: Planning Your Film
• Episode 3: Camera Techniques
• Episode 4: Special Effects & Stunts
• Episode 5: Editing and Sound

Cameron Adams, a web designer from Sydney, just created JS-909, a drum machine using JavaScript. I just spent 10 minutes playing with it which means “thumbs up” of course. It would be nice if created loops could be downloaded.

I’ve just been informed by Seelan Palay, a Singaporean activist, that his country’s Home Affairs Ministry is proposing an amendmend to the Films Act which will make it illegal to film illegal protests. Read more about it at The Online Citizen.

The amendment appears to liberate party political films from a ban list, but also proposes that events in political films must be legal. This is probably an attack on political films in Singapore which have been used effectively to expose human rights violations, such as One Nation Under Lee by Seelan Palay as well as Singapore Rebel and Zahari’s 17 Years, both by Martyn See.

An article called Censorship in Singapore on Wikipedia has a brief overview on the state of freedom of expression in Singapore.