Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Mike Butcher of TechCrunch describes the pitchfest that went on at Web2Expo Europe.
But back in Pitchamp, the startups were ranked by judges. The winner ended up being Wuala, which we’ve written about extensively. In second place was Youcalc. And - can you believe it - there was a three-way tie ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Apple just released some new compelling hardware and it's prompted some hardware refreshes around these parts.
17" MacBook Pro
2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
2 GB RAM (expandable to 4 GB)
160 GB hard drive
SuperDrive
AppleCare to Sept 2010.
Offers accepted. Looking for around £1100
Black MacBook
2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo
1.25 GB RAM
160 GB hard ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
This may not have been clear in my last post but....those awful clever buggers at Contrast.ie have decided to take a week off from surfing and take one lucky idea and turn it into an Application.
Contrast are taking one lucky idea to App School. We’ll pick an idea submitted by ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I've just penned a long post over at the DigitalCircle blog about taking ideas to the next stage. I've covered this before here and here.
The post is focussing on some of the initiatives which are out there in the province for doing just that. Again, I'd mentioned this before here ...
Posted in CoWorking, Do Something Now, digitalcircle, infurious | 4 Comments »
Friday, October 10th, 2008
DoorOfKukondu observes:
Also kinda annoyed that the BBC hasn't done a news app.
So, I emailed a couple of people I know who work in the BBC. None of them have any influence in that area but they may know someone who might know someone.
I'm surprised the BBC hasn't done a dedicated ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Mobile Monday this month was on the subject of Mobile Broadcast TV. This is, for the most part, the reception of broadcast 'linear' television on mobile devices. For example, Nokia's recent N96 can receive DVB-H mobile television. Which sounds fantastic until you realise that there are multiple competing standards for ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Been a dry spell (in creative terms) recently. Not that I haven't been scribbling down ideas but not many of them have been making it to the final product or even beyond the initial drafts. Obviously the work being done with Infurious makes me want to exercise my creativity but ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Comment spam is a pain in the butt - to the point that XCake.org ended up with over eight thousand lines of spammer links and crap because I allowed open comments. This overhead caused a huge load on my MySQL server and it affected performance elsewhere so, in the end, ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Joystiq has the scoop now that Nintendo has announced the DSi, a sleek competitor in the world of handheld gaming, ready to take on the new challenger in the form of the iPod touch and iPhone.
Massively also talks on the potential boon to the MMO market from these powerful, always ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Okay, I'm a hundred percent sure you can do better than me with my big inhuman paddles for fingers.
Anyone done better? (take a screenshot with a quick press of Power and Home buttons).
We'll hold a competition for the best colouring in soon on the Infurious and Blue Pilot Software web ...
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