Archive for January, 2008

iPhone sales predictions

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

IFrogz, among others speculates if Apple will sell 10 million phones by the end of 2008. I like iFrogz, I like the cases and whatnot they do, though I'm currently using a Capsule from SwitchEasy which is excellent. If Apple is to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of this ...

OpenIsland tomorrow

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

OpenIsland is on tomorrow and will be another large collection of beardy-weirdies the way the FOSS Means Business conference in 2006 attracted them. There's a couple more posts after that one which describe it in further detail. I want to go but I also have to work. There's very little chance ...

What’s missing on iPhone

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A discussion on the NiMUG forums about the features missing on the iPhone sparked this post. Proper MMS support - to be honest I don't miss this at all. Looking back on my previous tariffs I only ever sent about 1 picture a month (though my tariff allowed for 15) and ...

18/100 Just Jump Into Podcasting - Heres How

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

This is one that I'm going to be learning as I write. Technical The technical side of things is possibly the easiest to fix. Apple has a quick guide to Podcasting on their support site which covers a sample recipe for Podcasts and the bullet points in how to actually record sound ...

Google, Dell to produce piss-poor smartphone.

Thursday, January 31st, 2008



Social Capital

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

More for my own reference. Link: Wikipedia The first known use of the concept was by L. J. Hanifan, state supervisor of rural schools in West Virginia. Writing in 1916 to urge the importance of community involvement for successful schools, Hanifan invoked the idea of "social capital" to explain why. For ...

iPhone 2007. Windows Mobile 2009? Maybe?

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Mitchell Ashley, Microsoft apologist for NetworkWorld tells us why he thinks the iPhone is doomed The iPhone is certain to fade into history as another cool Apple innovation, that others soon rushed competitive, like-products to market, blowing away any significant lead Apple might have. The iPod mp3 player is an industry ...

NY Visit in Feb

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Looks like I might be going to New York for the second half of February. Still pretty tentative and there's probably a 50% chance it'll all fall through. Did I ever tell you how much I hate flying? Usually a flight consists of 5 minutes of terror, 50 minutes of boredom and ...

Henry Rollins at Vicar Street

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Yesterday afternoon I visited the dentist. I hate the dentist. No, I don't hate my dentist (she's very pleasant), but I hate going because I fear it. But I broke a tooth in early January and I needed to get it sorted. Forty minutes later I'm walking out, feeling somewhat ...

Character and Social Networking

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I'm a firm believer in a society founded on a results-based economy. Now that may be a term used by financial whizzkids out there in the real world, but what I mean here is that in your interactions with people daily, you should be considering the end result - what ...