Grab bag: Roundup roundup

I couldn’t get plugin upgrade working from the plugins administrative UI until I read this thread, which suggested trying different hostnames for the FTP login. Using localhost worked for me.

Interesting–hadn’t thought about the impact of snow on solar collection efficiency.

Systemwide tagging. This sounds really interesting. I wonder how/where they store the data.

Google Books goes mobile. Cool. Now if only they could straighten out being able to publish the “orphaned” (in copyright but abandoned) books in full, there would be true beauty in the world.

Interesting add-on site for Wikipedia visualizes the edit history as metadata.

Hmm. Tempting.

Remote administration of Macs and iPhones in a handheld console.

Just saw this on Ars. I had heard about flickery when it was released but hadn’t checked it out–looks interesting.