Case Study: GiffGaff, using community to build an entirely new kind of company.
GiffGaff’s Free SIM Card Offers an unlimited data and sms plan for a tenner.
Once you join giffgaff you’ll get:
Great value goodybags
For only £10 a month you’ll get 250 UK minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited mobile internet.
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Free calls to giffgaff numbers
Earn cash for signing your friends up to giffgaff and call and text each other for free.
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No ghastly two year contracts
giffgaff is Pay As You Go. You get all the control at a better value than most contracts.
First I have heard of GiffGaff, might spend a few minutes looking into this as I’m due a new contract.
Are Expensive Batteries Worth the Extra Cost?
Thanks to Rhett Allain for taking on one of my life’s greatest mysteries.
Digital comics company Graphicly is looking to change the publishing game.
Interestingly where as Apple’s iBook Author offering is free to publish with but only distributes on Apple’s own platform and gives up much of the creator’s rights to Apple, Graphicaly will launch with a flat fee model, offer distribution to iOS, Android, Web and Facebook. The creator sets the retail price, pays no commission and retains full rights to their creative work.
Throw in real-time analytics to help the self-publisher understand how readers are engaging with their content and Graphicly sounds pretty damn awesome, right?
Congrats to +Micah Baldwin and the awesome team at +Graphicly, I certainly look forward to making the most of this new service as a consumer of the creative works it will inspire.
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

A mysterious band of hacker-artists is prowling the network of tunnels below Paris, secretly refurbishing the city’s neglected treasures.
DomainHole for iPhone and iPad
The best domain finding tool on the interwebs is now available on the iPhone and iPad… Awesomeness!
What is CHDK?
CHDK is a firmware enhancement that operates on a number of Canon Cameras. CHDK gets loaded into your camera’s memory upon bootup (either manually or automatically). It provides additional functionality beyond that currently provided by the native camera firmware.
CHDK is not a permanent firmware upgrade: you decide how it is loaded (manually or automatically) and you can always easily remove it.
Please see the FAQ, CHDK for Dummies, Firmware Usage page and the One Page Ultra-Quick Users Guide, as well as other pages on this wiki, for more specifics on supported cameras, details of features, scripting, downloading, etc.
Quick answers to 4 key questions about CHDK
1. What is CHDK?
- CHDK is not just one thing! The term CHDK refers to free software – currently available for many (but not all) Canon PowerShot compact digital cameras – that you can load onto your camera’s memory card to give your camera greatly enhanced capabilities.
2. Is CHDK safe to use?
- Probably. See the following FAQ entries for more information
3. What else should I know?
- Developers around the world are continuing to add new features to CHDK. Because the idea of using the camera’s microprocessor is so flexible, various developers have made different versions of CHDK, and new features continue to be developed - for example, one version of CHDK has features assist in taking stereo photographs, and even allows two cameras to be synchronized to take pictures at the same time (with an accuracy of better than 0.1 milliseconds, providing they are the same camera model).
4. How do I get started with CHDK?
- See below, and read the FAQ, CHDK for Dummies and the Firmware Usage page !!!



