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Online EPS Viewer
Dec 11, 2009 13:08 - 0 Comments
I love timesavers like this.
EPS files are great for high quality graphics and are essential for press ready artwork but viewing the files can be a real pain. Typically you need a high end Adobe product or a specialised viewer which I don’t want to have to install just for the odd occasion when [...]
My Space? Your Space More Like
Dec 7, 2009 14:04 - 0 Comments
Really interesting article in the FT yesterday about the rise and fall of MySpace drawing a (contrasting) comparison to the current web sensation Facebook.
I have to admit that while I really struggled with the point of Facebook but I have never got MySpace. Not at all. Ever.
Potentially I can see Facebook being a real [...]
TweetCloud
Dec 2, 2009 11:06 - 0 Comments
I have covered word clouds before when I looked at the service Wordle. Another, similar, service has popped up over the last few days offering a similar service for your Tweets, tweet cloud. Having pointed it to my Twitter stream @spokenlikeageek (you are following me, right?) it produced the graphic on the left showing the [...]
So Now What?
Oct 14, 2009 21:10 - 0 Comments
So I received my invitation to Google Wave today and for a full thirty seconds there was much excitement as if I’d had an invite to the party of the year. So I logged in and then the realisation hit me that I have no one to connect to on the service and not [...]
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. [...]
Simple Mind for the iPhone
Jul 21, 2009 15:43 - 0 Comments
I attended an event today, hosted by the Thames Valley Innovation and Growth team, on developing iPhone applications. A couple of Apple employees were on hand to walk us through the process and answer any questions.
When I have attended these sort of events in the past I have tended to take notes in my [...]
You Have to be up Early to be a Neil Thompson
Jul 14, 2009 10:18 - 0 Comments
If you are called “Ernest Bumblebee” you will never suffer from the problem I have – namely that there are simply lots of me. This was highlighted just recently when Neil Thompson was appointed by the UK government to oversee cyber crime. Another prominent Neil Thompson is Microsoft’s “Senior Regional Director, Northern Europe, Entertainment & [...]
Services I use and Recommend
Jul 9, 2009 16:21 - 1 Comment
In a previous post I talked about the freemium model and how it has affected my attitude to software purchases. I wanted to go through the services that I use regularly and pay for and highlight them.
This is obviously just a personal selection. Over the years I have tried out numerous applications that rival the [...]
Paid Apps and the Freemium model
Jul 1, 2009 9:26 - 2 Comments
Over the years I have tended to avoid paying for applications because the up-front cost was prohibitive. So I either went without, used an older version that may have been given away with a magazine, or found an open source equivalent. However, I am now finding myself committing to a number of applications because of [...]
Netbook v3
Jun 29, 2009 18:20 - 0 Comments
So I am in the market for a new Netbook (some would ask when am I not in the market for a new gadget). This would be my third, therefore I think that you can safely say that I am a convert to the form factor.
There have already been two iterations of Netbooks. Version 1 [...]
