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Datz All Folks
Sep 28, 2009 8:12 - 0 Comments
Well, I can’t pretend that I am surprised – Datz have finally gone bust according to a story on MusicWeek. Having written about the problems with the service on a number of occasions (here and here) it seemed inevitable. Given that so many other companies have struggled with paying the fees to the music labels [...]
Panoramic Pictures with Pano and iPhone
Sep 27, 2009 14:54 - 0 Comments
Just got back from a long holiday, hence the lack of posts. However, while I was away I was able to road test a number of pieces of tech which I will be posting on over the next few days. First up is Pano for iPhone which, as the name suggests, allows you to take [...]
Extracting Text from a Image
Sep 1, 2009 11:39 - 1 Comment
On numerous occasions I have had a need to extract text from an image and have never found a way to be able to do so. Typically I want to get the text of an error message and while, sometimes, ctrl+c will copy the text to the clipboard, mostly it won’t. I stumbled upon a [...]
Unfuddle for iPhone
Aug 28, 2009 11:35 - 1 Comment
I have been using Unfuddle for a while now with a number of my clients. To quote Unfuddle themselves it is a “secure, hosted project management solution for software development teams.” Depending on your level of membership, which start at free, you get ticketing, time tracking, messages, subversion or git hosting, notebooks and milestone tracking. [...]
Netbook Memory Upgrade
Aug 22, 2009 16:38 - 0 Comments
I decided this week that I would make the only simple upgrade to my netbook and double the memory it has in it from 1gb to 2gb. For this I bought a stick of memory from the ever reliable Crucial for £12.64 delivered. It arrived within a couple of days of ordering and took less [...]
GPush for iPhone
Aug 17, 2009 17:55 - 0 Comments
One of the things that iPhone has been missing for me is the ability to push my email to my device. For my business email I have a Google Apps account and it would be really useful to be able to get my emails pushed just as I already can for my calendar and contact [...]
Datz Not Good
Aug 16, 2009 12:01 - 0 Comments
It’s been a while since I have written about Datz, the all you can eat music service. The last time I posted, back in May, it was to give a review based on my early findings looking for favourite music of family and friends. I found it to be hit and miss. I also bemoaned [...]
FREETALK Everyman USB Headset for Skype
Aug 10, 2009 12:51 - 2 Comments
I have found myself using Skype more and more recently, particularly since some good friends have moved to Australia. Over the years I have used a number of ways to make Skype calls. I have used the speaker and microphone on my netbook, a VoIPVoice Cyberphone-w handset and a Polycom Communicator. The laptop only experience [...]
LAN Cards – Not for Minors
Aug 8, 2009 16:53 - 0 Comments
I have been looking for a network card with wake-on-lan for one of my machines at home. I thought that I would have a look and see what Amazon had and turned up the item shown below. I was a bit surprised to see this text alongside the product: “Not for sale to persons under [...]
Getting Software onto your Netbook
Aug 7, 2009 14:50 - 0 Comments
A friend of mine recently bought a netbook and was wondering how he could install software onto it that he had on CD. There are a number of ways to achieve this: buy an external usb-CD/DVD drive to plug in, share the disk out from another machine and access across a network or create an [...]
