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 …
Read moreGood News for Bletchley Park
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 …
Read moreAn idle thought…
With all the Kinect hacks out there, why hasn’t anyone created a real-time Max Headroom implementation?
Read moreWhy Firefox’s new numbering is a problem
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 …
Read moreXDMCP to return to Ubuntu?
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 …
Read moreNintendo 3DS hands-on, Part II
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 …
Read moreNintendo 3DS hands-on, Part I
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 …
Read moreSocial Computing
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 …
Read moreCheaper Ubuntu One tiers
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 …
Read moreGrave Gravatars make comments seem sarcastic
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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