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RIP Steve Jobs

Mark Thursday, 6th October, 2011Sunday, 6th June, 2021

Today the world lost a great man with the sad passing of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers. I’m no Apple fanboy – in fact over the past few years I’ve increasingly stopped using their products as they’ve become more …

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Miscellaneous Tech

Good News for Bletchley Park

Mark Tuesday, 9th August, 2011Sunday, 6th June, 2021

It was great to hear today that Google are financially backing some of the restoration work taking place at Bletchley Park. It’s a site with an incredible history and is well worth a trip. Much of the commentary about it …

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Miscellaneous My Green Life Tech Things I Love

An idle thought…

Mark Monday, 4th July, 2011Sunday, 6th June, 2021

With all the Kinect hacks out there, why hasn’t anyone created a real-time Max Headroom implementation?

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Miscellaneous My Green Life Tech Things I Just Don't Understand

Why Firefox’s new numbering is a problem

Mark Monday, 27th June, 2011Sunday, 6th June, 2021

Mozilla recently released Firefox 5, (quietly) announcing that this represented the end of life (EOL) for Firefox 4. The problem is that Firefox 4 was released less than a two months ago. This has led to an ongoing discussion about …

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Tech Web XUL

XDMCP to return to Ubuntu?

Mark Friday, 13th May, 2011Sunday, 6th June, 2021

I’ve posted several articles about XDMCP in the past, and the most popular ones by far have concerned its removal from Ubuntu, and alternatives and workarounds to get the functionality back. I have to admit that I didn’t see much …

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Linux Tech

Nintendo 3DS hands-on, Part II

Mark Monday, 7th February, 2011Sunday, 6th June, 2021 1 Comment

Previous Part: Trying to get to, and find, the event After finally arriving at, and being let into, the Nintendo 3DS preview event in London, I made my way into the first of two rooms containing 3DS units and software …

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Games Tech

Nintendo 3DS hands-on, Part I

Mark Monday, 7th February, 2011Monday, 7th February, 2011 1 Comment

Yesterday I went to a hands-on preview of the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS. First I’d like to mention a few things about the event itself; if you’re just interested in my views on the 3DS and games then you might want …

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Games Tech

Social Computing

Mark Friday, 8th October, 2010

A couple of days ago I read, and commented on, a blog entry called “The Case for More Community on Your Ubuntu Desktop (Part 1)“. There’s no sign of Part 2 yet, but in the meantime this post is my …

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Linux Miscellaneous Tech

Cheaper Ubuntu One tiers

Mark Thursday, 7th October, 2010Friday, 8th October, 2010

A while back I blogged about a few bits of software which provided free versions, and paid-for versions, but which I felt missed the mark by overpricing the cheapest paid-for options. Amongst these was Ubuntu One, which offered 2GB of …

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Linux Miscellaneous Tech

Grave Gravatars make comments seem sarcastic

Mark Tuesday, 7th September, 2010

Like many other blogs, this one uses so-called “globally recognised avatars”. or “gravatars” to provide each commenter with their own unique image which will match from site to site, and from visit to visit, so long as they use the …

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