Sunday, 25 Dec 2011 08:00:21 · 1 minute read · Comments
Just a quick post to wish you all a very Merry Christmas
Saturday, 10 Dec 2011 23:52:18 · 1 minute read · Comments
Ars Technica recently published HP’s decision means webOS could end up more open than Android.
The fate of WebOS has had people pondering since HP announced it was going to stop developing WebOS. It has been suggested that HP should open source WebOS rather than just killing it. It turns out that that is exactly what they are going to do.
Now this raises an interesting question, could WebOS be more open than Android?
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Sunday, 30 Oct 2011 15:38:27 · 1 minute read · Comments
After the death of Steve Jobs Richard Stallman has said some somewhat callous things about Jobs and Apple and how they have us in “digital handcuffs”.
When we purchase a piece of Apple hardware or software, we must accept a EULA before we use it. It’s pretty standard in the proprietary world to put measures in place to restrict a user’s use of the product. I am pretty confident that hundreds of users click “accept” every day without reading such a license , let alone understanding it.
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Thursday, 13 Oct 2011 10:01:24 · 1 minute read · Comments
Co-writer of the C language and co-creator of the UNIX operating system Dennis Ritchie sadly passed away last Saturday. It seems his death was somewhat overlooked due to the passing of Steve Jobs.
Thanks to Ritchie’s contributions to computing, we have the C language and its derivatives (including Java, C++, Objective-C, JavaScript, and more), and UNIX with its derivatives (including Mac OS X, BSD, Solaris, Linux).
Thursday, 06 Oct 2011 06:04:13 · 1 minute read · Comments
I sat down at my computer this morning before work, I glanced at my tweets, then at my RSS, I realised what had happened.
Yesterday the world lost a great man, Steve Jobs.
I know that this will be plastered all over the Internet, I know that newspapers already have obituaries written, but I wanted to pay my respects to this great man.
Steve’s keynote speeches were always brilliant, it was these speeches that made me so enthusiastic about Apple products.
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Monday, 19 Sep 2011 19:01:36 · 1 minute read · Comments
Sherlock is one of my all time favourites. No, not the stories, the game!
Written by Everett Kaser many moons ago, I first played this classic game on DOS and taught how to play it by my Dad. At the time it felt fairly hard, and it still catches me out from time to time now!
This is my current “I’ve got five minutes to fill”, or indeed “I’ve got half an hour to fill” game.
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Sunday, 11 Sep 2011 18:46:00 · 1 minute read · Comments
A couple of friends have made some apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch, so I thought I’d quickly plug them :P
First up is Wager by Tom Diggle. This app is handy for calculating the return and profit of many betting types.
It sports a succinct UI which is both fast and effective and allows for multiple bets to be stored for later reference.
Find it on the App Store for just 69p!
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Sunday, 21 Aug 2011 19:06:15 · 1 minute read · Comments
Last weekend it was Faye’s 23rd birthday. Having asked her previously she had joked about an iPad, so I saved and an iPad she got. A 32GB, Wi-Fi only iPad2.
I’m impressed with the device, I’ve played with them in the Apple Shop, but having one at home is nice. Faye has an old G4 iBook, this new device has somewhat elevated the iBook’s duties. The iPad gets used for games, web browsing, email (both through Mail.
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Wednesday, 13 Jul 2011 08:55:19 · 4 minute read · Comments
The social networking world is rather turbulent at the moment, with Google barging in to rival Facebook.
Until recently, Facebook went unrivalled. From humble beginnings as a networking tool for uni students, it is now to the social networking world as the iPod is to the MP3 player.
Facebook has always had some use, it is not merely for posting on a friends profile, but for organisation. You can organise events, be reminded of a friends birthday, categorise and tag friends in photos and videos and notes.
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Sunday, 10 Jul 2011 22:08:29 · 1 minute read · Comments
Now I have a Google+ account (more on that later) I want to start moving my life from Facebook to the new shiny thing. Thankfully, Facebook make it somewhat easier than one would expect.
If you navigate to Account > Account Settings then click on the “learn more” link next to “Download your information”, you’ll be able to request for Facebook to zip up all your data (well, most of it) and make it available for you as a download (I had to wait ~5 hours for my 66mb of data to be made available).
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