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Geeks in Space
Aug 5, 2010 14:10 - 1 Comment
It’s not often that I get to talk about something other than a gadget or an app but this is seriously cool.
Three friends of my younger son have designed and built a high altitude balloon and launched it. Beneath the balloon was a camera and other instruments recording details of the flight. You can [...]
Google goes Bing!
Jun 10, 2010 9:27 - 1 Comment
When Bing launched the most striking think about it was its look with backdrops made of some stunning pictures. Google suddenly seemed very plain in comparison.
Now Google has struck back even allowing you to use your own pictures as the backdrop and the results can be similarly stunning – providing you have the picture to [...]
Subsonic vs. Spotify
May 30, 2010 21:51 - 1 Comment
I wrote in my previous post about the really rather wonderful Subsonic and how it was part of my armoury in the battle to rid myself of iTunes. Well I discovered today that it is rapidly becoming a complete replacement for Spotify too.
In my short(ish) life I have seen a number of changes in the [...]
Replacing iTunes with Something that Works
May 5, 2010 9:10 - 1 Comment
It is no secret that I am not a fan of iTunes. It is simply too big and slow in day to day use for those of us with large music collections. I am not alone is this dislike, a quick search on Google will reveal many people looking for replacements, and my friend Dirk [...]
The Long Memory of Zumodrive
Apr 25, 2010 13:58 - 1 Comment
I am a highly active and avid user of the cloud storage system Zumodrive. In fact I have written about it a number of times before and it was one of my favourite apps from 2009.
One of the things that it can do (unless you turn it off) is to give you little pop-up messages [...]
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Apr 16, 2010 11:54 - 0 Comments
Google has release a number of interesting and useful updates over the last few days and removed (or planned to) remove a big one.
Firstly the good stuff. Gmail now allows you to drag and drop files to be attached – a real time saver. You simply drag the file over the attachment area and drop [...]
Google Street View Star
Mar 15, 2010 9:15 - 0 Comments
Last May I wrote about working from home and seeing the Google Street View car pass my house. Now, some ten months later, the results are in and the pictures have been uploaded and there I am at our window, standing like some shadowy Norman Bates.
You can quite clearly see that I am holding [...]
Clipping to Evernote from iPhone Safari Browser
Jan 17, 2010 18:16 - 0 Comments
One of my favourite tools is Evernote, the note taking application. I regularly find snippets of information on the internet that I want to retain and come back to later. Evernote provides a number of tools that sit in the browser allowing you to clip directly to your account. This is enormously helpful and [...]
Your Own URL Shortener
Jan 11, 2010 11:35 - 0 Comments
URL Shorteners are all the rage these days what with bit.ly, tinyurl.com, flic.kr and the rest. They take the incredibly long URLs that are generated from tools such as Wordpress and turn them into something shorter and more manageable. So, for example, the URL for my last post on my top tech of 2009 [...]
Top tech of 2009
Jan 7, 2010 18:52 - 3 Comments
For the last few years Michael Arrington has been producing a list of the top tech that he has regularly used in each year and I thought this year I would give it a go. So this is the technology that I used day-in, day-out in 2009 and could not do without.
Google Chrome
A lot [...]
