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Britons Addicted to Mobile Broadand
Aug 4, 2011 12:03 - 0 Comments
Count me in:
Communications regulator confirmed this on 4 August in its 2011 Communications Market report. It found almost four out of 10 adults and six out of 10 teenagers admitted they were “highly addicted”.
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Steve Wouldn’t LIke it (but I do!)
Jul 17, 2011 19:59 - 1 Comment
It has always struck me that the iPad is just crying out for some form of alternative input device other than my finger. This is not a view that I share with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who famously asked the question “Who wants a stylus?” when launching the original iPhone. Of course, Steve’s dislike of styluses doesn’t [...]
iPad 2 and the smart cover
Jul 1, 2011 10:48 - 0 Comments
So I have finally succumbed and swapped my iPad 1 for a sleek new iPad 2. The most noticeable change is the performance boost. My old iPad was beginning to get very sluggish and on apps that I use regularly, such as Pulse, it was becoming unusable. So it has become usable once again.
With [...]
My iPhone 5 Wish List (it’s probably not what you think)
Jun 5, 2011 16:38 - 0 Comments
I am coming to the end of my iPhone 3GS contract in a couple of weeks. Normally this end of contract would coincide with the launch of Apple’s latest and greatest device but this year it looks like I am going to have to wait until September at the earliest for my latest fix.
Of [...]
Evernote Web Clipper now a Rival for Instapaper?
May 24, 2011 19:26 - 3 Comments
One of my favourite tools has got to be Evernote, the service that allows you to upload pretty much anything and have it indexed and available to search and view pretty much anywhere.
Evernote have today upgraded their Chrome Extension to extend it to offer “smart clipping”. Previously when you clipped a webpage to Evernote unless [...]
Mac Folder Action Scripts and Evernote
May 15, 2011 17:29 - 0 Comments
For reasons that I have yet been able to fathom the functionality levels between the Mac and Windows Evernote clients is subtly different. For example on Windows there is the very useful ability to be able to add a watched folder that when anything gets added to this it automatically gets added to Evernote. This [...]
Top tech of 2010
Jan 16, 2011 15:46 - 0 Comments
Last year, for the first time, I produced a list of my top tech for 2009. I thought that it would be interesting to do the same in 2010 to see how things have changed, if at all. So this is the technology that I used day-in, day-out in 2010 and could not do without.
Google [...]
Verizon iPhone, Who Cares?
Jan 7, 2011 10:20 - 0 Comments
It seems that ever since Apple struck an exclusive deal with AT&T for the iPhone the whole of the US have been waiting for the holy grail in the form of the Verizon iPhone. And the blogsphere has been alive with it again this week. My question is this who cares and why?
Well in the [...]
Now This is Getting Ridiculous
Nov 7, 2010 11:31 - 1 Comment
I wrote a while back about the stupid amount of time my iPad backup was taking and moaned that it had taken a ridiculous three hours. My solution to this was to use BackOff to disable the automatic backups during sync. However, this means that if there is ever a problem you cannot do a [...]
Teaching Teenagers to Program
Oct 31, 2010 13:30 - 0 Comments
Had an interesting week teaching a couple of teenagers to program. In fact it wasn’t a week but only four days in which to impart some knowledge and get them to complete a small project so that they felt they had achieved something. For this I decided that they should create a form and then [...]
