Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I want the updates from friends, I want their photos and little messages but I'm utterly bored of the little crappy apps that everyone wants me to install. I really don't care for them. I install them to see the messages that friends send and 90% of the time it's ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Robert Scoble was quietly raving about the Kindle for the last week but as he says, it's easy to get geeks excited by new and shiny and much harder to excite the mass market.
No ability to buy paper goods from Amazon through Kindle.
Usability sucks. They didn’t think about how people ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Some developers are gaining early access to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch software developer kit, according to reliable sources speaking to Electronista. A handful of companies are said to be getting rough versions of the tools to help code more advanced applications than would be possible with the current web-only ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
The London Underground could really learn a lesson or three in how to entertain customers.
Ever been on the Tube?
For me, because London is a rare treat, the Tube is a guilty pleasure and I consider it much like le Metro. It's true that the stations under London perhaps hold ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
A few weeks ago, Her Indoors made an off-hand comment about how I should do more for good causes. At the time I grunted as my attention was elsewhere but the statement didn't leave me and I've been mulling it over for the last few days. The outcome of this ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
The proliferation of sites like Flickr (and their options for aspiring photographers to license their work) as well as cheap online stock photography web sites is apparently damaging the livelihoods of professional stock photographers. Chances are you can find the image you want, get it for a small fee (or ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
SeekingAlpha argues that Apple should alienate and compete with it's main suppliers of processor chips and one of their suppliers of graphics processing hardware in a method to incrementally increase profits.
With Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) stock price deteriorating, could Apple (AAPL) be its white knight?
The 10 reasons and most apparent ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
This week I got Flickr working with iPhoneSlide. It means I can upload/email photos direct from my iPhone to my Flickr account. I didn't previously have a Flickr account. I just enabled Flickr on my existing Yahoo account (which is one of the oldest IM accounts I have, dating back ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Stephen Fry gets into an argument about global warming (which is a good read in itself) but also starts off with this gem of an observation.
when I get into a debate I can get very, very hot under the collar, very impassioned, and I dare say, very maddening, for once ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Let me start by saying that I'm not a gadgeteer. I don't rush out for the latest and greatest. That said, apart from Mac computers I have had my fair share of palmtops and phones over the last decade.
Nine gadgets in 10 years isn't bad. I've only ever bought one ...
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