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March 2009

Coincidence? Could be!

March 30, 2009

Is it just me, or is it an amazing coincidence that as soon as real celebrities appear on Twitter and comfortably eclipse the “A list bloggers” for follower numbers, those self-same “A-listers” decide that Twitter is over and talk about moving on to the next big thing? Did someone just have their ego take a [...]

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The Microsoft “Lauren” ads are right

March 30, 2009

Joe Wilcox is right: The Microsoft “I’m not cool enough for a Mac” campaign has really struck a nerve. The Mac sites are abuzz with rebuttals, cries of foul, and general wailing and gnashing of teeth. The reason for the attention is probably because there’s a grain of truth in what Microsoft is saying. The [...]

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Is Chrome the only secure browser?

March 20, 2009

ArsTech, quoting the guy who won at CanSec: “Miller also told reporters that he targeted Safari on Mac OS X because he believes that it is the easiest to exploit. Windows, on the other hand, he claims is tougher because of its address randomization feature and other security measures. As for Chrome, he says that [...]

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This is why we need to retain the right to film and photograph the police

March 19, 2009

The government claims that Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act won’t be used to stifle legitimate criticism of the police. However, in every case that the government has been granted wide-ranging powers that “won’t be used to stifle” something, they’ve gone ahead and down exactly that – see, for example, the use of ASBOs [...]

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The all-new iPhone

March 17, 2009

Michael Gartenberg hits the nail on the head about why the iPhone 3.0 upgrade is important: “Apple’s got a 1,000 new APIs for developers to build on, they showed a few today in demo applications. What’s interesting is that most of those applications shown would be virtually impossible for developers to create on other platforms.” [...]

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Problems installing OpenOffice on Windows 7

March 14, 2009

I’ve been conducting an experiment running Windows 7 as my main operating system for a couple of weeks, and so far the experience has largely been positive. There’s been only one problem: OpenOffice failed to install. When installing, the installer would get to the very end and fail with this error: “ Error 1303. The installer [...]

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James Kendrick really wants a Palm Pre

March 13, 2009

I mean, really, really wants one: “Every video demonstration I have seen of the Pre since that first date has ratcheted up the want factor higher and higher. Watching that fluid UI waltz around the user information is heady indeed.” And I’m really interested in the thinking behind o2 apparently picking up the Pre for [...]

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Twitter as super-fast news network: Get over yourself!

March 10, 2009

Regarding the new API from The Guardian (which looks rather neat), one of my friends Twittered this: “Twitter fastest with the news, even in their building. Reading about the product online before they’ve announced it in the room!” At which point, to my shame, I lost my Twitter-temper: “Oh yawn. Can we not just get [...]

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