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Stories that caught my eye this week – 27th September 2008

Sep 27, 2008 16:44 -

These are some of the stories I have been reading this week:

Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners [Hive Five]
Understanding Online Photo Rights
The 2009 Compact Calendar Now Available [Printables]
Google Chrome as Future Operating System [Google Chrome]
Find Out Where a Username is Already Registered [Identity]
T-Mobile G1 launch day roundup
Google Contacts Has a Standalone Site [Google [...]

Stories that caught my eye this week – 20th September 2008

Sep 20, 2008 15:16 -

These are some of the stories I have been reading this week:

Google Chrome, a Shell for the Web
Updates Announced For Google Gears And Google Desktop
PureText Cleans Your Clipboard Copied Text
Snubbed by Apple, iPhone App Developer Turns to ‘Ad Hoc’ Distribution
Google adds Street View and walking directions to mobile Maps
Much debate [...]

Stories that caught my eye this week – 12th September 2008

Sep 12, 2008 19:50 -

These are some of the stories I have been reading this week:

Share, Sync, and Back Up Files with Dropbox
Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Commercial #2: I Remain Confused
Table of Contents, Dictionary and Thesaurus in Google Docs
Mobile Industry Discovers It’s the Software, Stupid
Yahoo Brings a Social Address Book to the iPhone
Presentations turns 1 [...]

More VMWare Woes

Sep 8, 2008 16:53 -

Further to my previous post regarding getting VMWare Server up and running on Vista I spent a while over the weekend trying to migrate a Virtual PC image.
VMWare kindly provides a tool to carry out the conversion called VMWare Convertor.  My first attempt was met with a message: “Unable to Determine Guest Operating System”. [...]

Duplicate Contacts on iPhone

Sep 6, 2008 11:50 -

One of the things that has been bugging me since I got my 3G iPhone was that I had duplicate contacts listed. Normally this would have been a minor irritation but given that the contacts take an age to load I was keen to keep the list as small as possible. A search on Google [...]

 

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Neil Thompson is an IT professional with over 20 years’ experience in start-ups, software houses and commercial organisations.

In 2009 he set up Ammat Consulting to deliver strategic consultancy and tactical support to software companies of all sizes.

Neil has a keen interest in all things technical and mobile and cloud computing in particular. This blog reflects those interests.