Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
It was a long time ago that I started NiMUG and for the last three years it's been somewhat dormant. But tomorrow brings us the first proper NiMUG meeting in a very long time.
We have a room. Hired from Windsor Lawn Tennis Club in Belfast.
We have a projector. Kindly ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December.
The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global enunciation of human rights. The commemoration was established in 1950, when ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
I don't recommend this because it's bound to cause all sorts of warranty issues.
Sometimes your iPhone enters a mode where you can't answer it unless you use your earbuds or bluetooth headset. Well, you CAN answer it, but you can't hear anything. The handset speaker stops working. It appears that ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
There's not a lot of sense coming out of Steven Berling's Disruptive Technology blog. Yes, it's ZDNet. Bear with me.
The main points seem to be with the facts that Mac OS X has been "hacked" so it runs on vanilla PCs. And the iPhone has also been hacked months before ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
This article on Forbes asserts that Kindle already has competitors:
The ability to grab free books online points to the device’s real competition: not paper books but Internet-friendly laptops, tablet computers and smart phones. The amount of content available online is growing fast, and devices for accessing the Net are getting ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
We've covered this before in september and October of this year. But it's never been more plain than in this posting from Justin Masons blog at taint.org.
The BBC has been sold
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
From Five Problems with Google Android:
The quality of the user experience on the iPhone makes a major difference to Apple's bottom line. The quality of the Android experience has only a slight connection to Google's. Sure, everyone on the project would like it to succeed.
It's not about the users. It's ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
I've been thinking of applications which would suit the iPhone and iPod touch and mused about how the original iPod models had a click wheel and yet no-one managed to bring out a driving game :)
One area that I'd love to see some work in would be gaming on iPod ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
While there are communities around everything, there are some that I love.
I made some good friends and met my fiancee on an online community but I don't go there any more. Some communities have a way of tiring. They're best when you take breaks from them.
I've never really fitted ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
That's a pretty brief review of Outlook 2003 when connected to an Exchange Server.
When my IMAP server isn't responding, I still have my local data. And it works. And when things change, they sync up nicely. Yesterday I spent the morning restarting Outlook as it kept crashing every time the ...
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