The Price of Memory

I bought one of these last week – a 2gb memory stick. Yes, I know that it has “Go England” written on the side but that will scratch off in time and I will lose the top but it will still hold 2gb.
At this point you are no doubt wondering why you should care [...]

Changing the IE7 Search Provider to Google.co.uk

Something that has niggled me since I installed the first beta of IE7 was that while I could set the search provider box to something other than MSN I didn’t seem to be able to change to google.co.uk, which is what I really wanted. Why does this matter? Well notmally it doesn’t the search results [...]

AppSwing are hiring

If you have been excited by the previous post then you may like to know that AppSwing are currently looking for a web developer to work in our dedicated team delivering mobile solutions for a range of UK customers. It’s an opportunity to work within a small team working on industry leading technology with some [...]

AppSwing in action

It’s taken a while but AppSwing have finally got a video together of our product in action. The following short video will give you an introduction to the AppServer technology. Using a real-life mobile application you will see how it interacts with the original Windows application on the server in real-time without invasively attaching to [...]

PSP

I have a new gadgety love in my life – a Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). This just has to be the ultimate media centre device: movies, music, photos, web browsing and games, it does the lot. Hey, it even will run your business applications via AppSwing.:

I also just looove the rss feeds, although they [...]

The Good and Bad of Windows

Over the last few days I have experienced both the good and bad sides of Microsoft Windows. My laptop runs Windows XP Pro and normally runs pretty smoothly. On Saturday I was doing some work and shut down without any problems. Next morning when I started up Windows went through all the normal process but [...]

And Another Thing…

Here’s another things that pisses me off. Take a look at the screenshot below:

Now you might think that there is nothing much wrong with this. But not being American, nor being in the United States and being given the impression that there might be other options other than “English (United States) I stupidly clicked [...]

The Postcard is Dead

Having just returned home from two weeks holiday I can now announce the death of the humble postcard. It has been killed off, like so many other things, by the internet. Now longer do family and friends have to make do with a quick “wish you were here” scrawled on the back of a card [...]

Help a Student

AppSwing currently have a student from the University of Reading working with us and as part of his course he has to do some research into the development environments that are in use throught the UK. In order to capture this information he has designed a short on-line questionnaire which will take 5-10 minutes to [...]

Simply Managing

By and large my job at AppSwing is one of management. Whether those that are “managed” (hello!) feel that it is a worthwhile exercise is open to debate and their own personal blogs. Anyway this week has been a strange one for me as I have spent 90% of it doing coding, something that I [...]