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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 as a eReader
Jun 2, 2009 22:02 - 0 Comments
Always on the lookout for ways to extract the most from my Netbook and having eyed up the Sony’s eReader in Waterstones I thought I would see whether the former could act as the latter.
eBooks are all the rage at the moment, particularly in the states where Amazon’s Kindle seems to be doing a roaring [...]
Datz Music Lounge
May 2, 2009 21:35 - 4 Comments
At the Gadget Show Live recently was a company called Datz who were offering unlimited music download for only £75 per year – discounted from £99 for the show. I love music and am a regular downloader and so this sounded like a great deal – it would pay for itself in less than 100 [...]
How to minimize iTunes to the Windows Taskbar
Apr 22, 2009 15:01 - 0 Comments
I discovered something about iTunes today that I should have realised long ago must have existed – namely the ability to minimise it to the system tray. More than that it is also possible to put a little widget on the taskbar that allows you some simple control over the playing track and volume. [...]
