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

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

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

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

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 [...]

VMWare on Vista

Just got a new laptop running Windows Vista Business and while it hasn’t been as painful as I had expected (having 4gb of ram helps) I did spend all of Wednesday morning trying to resolve a problem with VMWare Server. Installation was fine but as soon as I tried to start an image the [...]

What Time is it?

AppSwing have been using an online project management system FogBugz for a few months now and it’s very good. However, what makes it stand head-and-shoulders above the competition is not the functionality (which is superb and well executed) but the attitude towards support. I have emailed their help desk a few times and have [...]

Wordle

Here’s a neat way of representing information in a very graphical way: Wordle. Using this service you can either choose to enter some text, perhaps a presentation or speech or direct it at the RSS feed of a website. That’s what the picture below shows – the feed for this site. Weight is given to [...]

Magic Bullet Get Video Coverage on BBC

A friend of mine runs a small media production company, Magic Bullet, producing high-quality corporate videos. It was the Magic Bullet team that was responsible for the iPhone video produced for AppSwing.
It can be very difficult for small business to make themselves heard but occasionally you can manage to get your head above [...]

Perfect travel speakers – the x-mini

I was introduced to these speakers by a friend who, like me, has a keen interest in all things gadgety. I have tried a number of portable speakers in my time but most are either too big or the sound is too weak. The x-mini gets round both of these problems in a neat [...]

Cuil Search

A  new search engine (do we need another one?) has opened for business today. Cuil (pronounced Cool) is brought to us by a couple of ex-Googleites. I thought that I would give it a spin. Cuil reckons that it indexes three times the pages of Google and ten times that of Windows Live Search so [...]