From the monthly archives:

January 2009

“The krona is dead”

January 30, 2009

Iceland joining the EU: "The krona is dead. We need a new currency. The only serious option is the euro," said a senior Icelandic official. I wonder how long it will be before the government admits the same is true of the pound?

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Quote of the day

January 29, 2009

Irish ISP will disconnect Internet users after three unsubstantiated copyright claims – Boing Boing. “You don’t hear the record labels offering to have their Internet connections cut off if they send out three false copyright accusations.”

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I was right about Vista

January 28, 2009

Looking through some old work, I found this post – an article I wrote in 2005 for the Irish Times on Windows Vista, and why it was doomed to fail. I identified three key problems: Lack of effective (at the time) competition from Mac and Linux meant that Microsoft wasn't being pushed very hard to [...]

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TFL sure knows how to explain a route

January 16, 2009
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Steve Jobs’ health: How much should Apple reveal?

January 15, 2009

There is, unsurprisingly, a lot of talk about Steve Jobs’ illness. It’s understandable: Jobs is a person who thousands of Mac fans around the world think of more as a friend than just the CEO of the company whose computers they like. This devotion and concern often manifests itself in a simple idea: Jobs’ health [...]

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If your Add/Remove applications has no applications in it, here’s what to do

January 15, 2009

It looks like there's an interesting bug in the current version of Adobe Air for Linux which, if you install it, can affect the Ubuntu Add/Remove Applications programme. So, if you find that after installing Air, you have no applications at all listed in Add/Remove Apps, do this: In terminal, type sudo update-app-install If that [...]

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Why Apple will have a Mac App Store

January 14, 2009

Given that Giles found it interesting enough to want to write a post about, it's probably worth delving a little deeper into why I believe that Apple will end up producing an online store for the Mac similar to the App Store for iPhone.It comes down, as you might expect, to the same two reasons [...]

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If your Add/Remove applications has no applications in it, here’s what to do

January 14, 2009

It looks like there’s an interesting bug in the current version of Adobe Air for Linux which, if you install it, can affect the Ubuntu Add/Remove Applications programme. So, if you find that after installing Air, you have no applications at all listed in Add/Remove Apps, do this: In terminal, type sudo update-app-install If that [...]

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How much will the Palm Pre be?

January 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Palm Pre Sprint’s pricing update and sales volumes » Unwired View “The earlier quoted $399 price for Palm Pre was actually for a handset without contract on Sprint. And it is only one of the possible price points Palm is contemplating. Another one is $499 for a phone without contract. So when [...]

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Sniggering at John Dvorak is harsh, but fun

January 12, 2009

Jan. 1984: How critics reviewed the Mac – Apple 2.0: San Francisco Examiner, John C. Dvorak, 19 Feb. 1984: "The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. [...]

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