Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
It's funny really.
We ordered 2 books. They lost them. After two weeks they said "just re-order".
We ordered 15 prints. We got them.
We also received 30 prints belonging to someone else entirely. Family holiday photos.
I can't even begin to detail how wrong that is and how poor Apple's choice of outsourcing ...
Posted in Commentary, Mac | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 24th, 2007
Mitch Wagner of InformationWeek writes, in a long discussion about Apple supporting the Enterprise:
Gruber's post has the inherent assumption that it's IT's job to serve the company's users. It's not, though, it's the job to serve the organization, and its goals. This often means that users get inferior technology because ...
Posted in Commentary, infurious | No Comments »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
A man who was spotted in the street using his laptop to access an unsecured wireless connection has been arrested. ... When questioned he admitted using the owner's unsecured wireless internet connection without permission and was arrested on suspicion of stealing a wireless broadband connection. The man was bailed to ...
Posted in Bedouin, Commentary, infurious | 3 Comments »
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
That's the gist of this article.
On average, running Javascript on a device that fits in your pocket seems to be slower than on a machine with a dual-core Intel processor, a bucket of RAM and all the gubbins that go with it.
This is not news.
Now, it continues that running native ...
Posted in Commentary | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
Whatever you might say about the lack of an official iPhone SDK, there is something to be said for a controlled, tested environment.
Earlier today, my Nokia N800 died. Not in hardware, just refused to boot. what had I done? I'd installed Pidgin, MaemoMapper, XMaeme and a few other apps that ...
Posted in Bedouin, Commentary, iPhone, infurious | No Comments »
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Next week, we're losing one of our developers to a big fancy firm in Belfast. Steve has been an extremely valuable part of the team for the last few months and has helped us with many of the skunkworks projects which have been paying the bills for the last year. ...
Posted in Code, Commentary, Startup, infurious | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 6th, 2007
It's been a while since I was a true gadgeteer. I shelved my trusty Newton MessagePad 2000 (upgraded) about 18 months after Newton Inc closed it's doors and was re-absorbed into the Mothership. For a while I used a very functional Palm Vx which gave me a lot of joy ...
Posted in Bedouin, Commentary, Cool, iPhone | No Comments »