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Was there ever a time when ‘Daring Fireball’ was ‘Daring’?
Jan 17, 2012 11:33 - 0 Comments
As I have previously pointed out, as part of my love of all things tech I read many technology blogs and sites. Most of these provide information of real interest, albeit usually the same information repeated over a number of sites. And then there is John Gruber’s Daring Fireball.
Gruber’s site has some sort of cachet [...]
The Content of this Post May be Inaccurate
Dec 30, 2011 11:36 - 0 Comments
As part of my love of all things tech I subscribe to and read a lot of technology blogs and there are some exceptional ones on the web. The problem is that there are an awful lot of blogs chasing the same information and sometimes information is in short supply. This in turn leads to [...]
Say Hello to Evernote Hello
Dec 18, 2011 22:15 - 0 Comments
I really like Evernote I really do. It is probably one of only a handful of apps that I use every single day without fail. But I just don’t get their new app Evernote Hello. I think this quote from a ReadWriteWeb article sums it up:
It’s completely awkward for any social encounter where you’re meeting two [...]
iPhone Tripod Adaptor
Dec 14, 2011 13:09 - 0 Comments
Everyone’s talking about iphonography – taking pictures with your iphone rather than a standard camera. As the now well worn phrase goes “The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You”.
The iPhone camera is pretty good for a phone, particularly on the 4S, and it is always in my pocket so available in a way [...]
Rapportive
Dec 6, 2011 16:55 - 0 Comments
What I love about Google Chrome the most is that it has a vast number of really great extensions to do almost anything. Not only that there are also competing extensions so you get choice too.
One are where there is plenty of choice is in the personal profile space, in fact Google has it’s own [...]
The Downside of SEO
Nov 25, 2011 15:46 - 0 Comments
I haven’t allow automatic publishing of comments on the site for quite a while because even with a captcha I was still getting loads of spam comments. The reason behind this is search engine optimization (SEO). In order to raise your rank on search sites, such as Google, you need to get some authority and [...]
Build an app by all means, but please remember to support it
Nov 14, 2011 21:31 - 0 Comments
Everyone is building mobile apps these days. They are the must have accessory for every company that wants to be seen to be leading edge and that includes my own company.
Apple seem to have managed to succeeded where I singularly failed a few years ago in persuading people that mobiles where it’s at. And that’s great, I [...]
Slideshare Participates in Rip-off Britain
Nov 8, 2011 11:21 - 0 Comments
Slideshare is one of a number of online services that allow you to post and share presentations to a wide audience. We have been using it at work to promote some of our own presentations for a while now. It works well but has a major drawback on the free edition in that it looks [...]
Business Card Reader Apps
Nov 3, 2011 15:20 - 0 Comments
If you are anything like me then over the years you will have collected a vast number of business cards.
Originally these were held in special wallets and then when they became full stacked in a piles on the window sill!
Now they get put into either my contacts or my CRM system and despite there being [...]
Cheap, Reliable wifi Dongle (That works with Ubuntu)
Aug 23, 2011 8:47 - 0 Comments
If you are in the market for a wifi dongle that works with Ubuntu (and who isn’t?) then I may have the answer. I recently bought a dongle from 7DayShop.com as my wifi card was giving terrible performance. The dongle arrived yesterday and worked out of the box and is, so far, working without fault. [...]
