No, I don’t normally do hardware reviews here, especially not of computery-type stuff, but hey, here’s the exception… I may have mentioned before that one of my favourite Apple products is the iPod Shuffle. I got a 1st generation Shuffle (A WHOPPING 512MB! ONLY £79!) back in 2005, primarily for gym listening… not a great [...]
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First impressions… Google+
July 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
It’s no longer a surprise to see Google doing their own version of just about every other Internet Big Thing. They’ve probably seen what Mark Zuckerberg is worth these days, hence the launch of something that, on initial investigation, looks pretty much like Facebook… with a different logo and more white space. Having thought I [...]
Filtering the noise
March 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
Even assuming Twitter doesn’t go all evil on us, there are going to have to be some changes even to maintain the current level of useability (whatever your opinion of that). Even if the userbase doesn’t change, the rising popularity of linked apps will result in a steady traffic increase. As with all those Farmville [...]
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It’s not about you, Twitter, it’s about us
March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
Dear Mr Twitter, If you prevent people from accessing your social networking facility via third-party clients (such as Tweetie, Tweetdeck, Dabr, etc) I will simply stop using you. There’s evidence around various websites and social networks today to suggest that many thousands of other people will do the same. I’m sure a minority of people [...]
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Using WordPress in a subdomain?
January 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Technology
This is pretty niche stuff, but I’m posting it just in case someone else happens to find it useful… If your WordPress blog lives in a subdomain (this one is at blog.sfocata.co.uk, not www.sfocata.co.uk) you may well have problems upgrading plugins and WordPress itself. In my case, the “upgrade automatically” buttons give this error… Upgrade [...]
Lame browser, Dave.
July 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics, Technology
The government has decided it’s quite happy to keep using Internet Explorer 6 as its official web browser of choice. A nine-year-old piece of software that never adhered to commonly agreed standards of usability even back in 2001. So when they start legislating about how they think we should be using our computers I think [...]
Netbook/notebook advice, anyone?
January 30th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Technology
Nicola’s wondering about getting a netbook or another similarly low-spec laptop… if anyone can offer any advice, we’d be most grateful. The only major requirements are that she can do her writing on it and have WiFi for backups. We wondered if the tiny netbooks wouldn’t be suitable for a lot of typing… a standard-sized [...]
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Tiny people running around in my computer!
October 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Sport, Technology, TV/Radio
Despite my initial indignant bluster, with much projectile monocle-shedding and rustling of the Times, I dutifully paid for the online feed of the Ukraine-England match. The £4.99 buy-by-Wednesday special offer rate, of course… I’m both tight-fisted and slightly sceptical about how well this internet-only thing is going to work. Are there going to be a [...]
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My new screenshot trick
August 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Apple, Technology
I’ve been using OSX almost since the start (and old-style Macs for a few years before that) so I always tend to skim the “Mac 101″ posts on TUAW. But having idly followed one of their links to the Pro Tips section of Apple’s site, I then found a tip about screenshots. You know how [...]
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Kids say the FUNNIEST things!!!!!!
July 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology
One of my personal bugbears is that old cliché, “My five-year-old can set the video recorder; I don’t even know where to put the tape in”. As well as being a mainstay of mainstream stand-up comedy from the late 80s, I also heard it in plenty of real-life conversations. Yeah, I know… it was only [...]
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