Technology
OS X Mountain Lion First Thoughts
I was a bit surprised today to find out that Apple had announced another new OS only 7 months after they launched Lion. As you would expect though, Mountain Lion is more of the same in terms of new additions being heavily inspired by their incredibly successful mobile operating system, iOS. Probably the most useful [...]
The Social Network and Skype Video on Facebook
Last night I watched the Social Network. I really enjoyed it but it left me with a few questions about some of the intricacies of the story of facebook, and it also got me thinking about what they’ve been doing lately. The Skype Video on Facebook rumour was around for a long time before it [...]
Can Google+ Compete with Facebook?
Google have a poor track record when it comes to social media. Just look at Buzz and how that didn’t give Twitter any competition whatsoever. This from the one of the first, and probably still biggest internet companies. Google+ is another typical Google product from what I can tell. It looks good, has the best [...]
Firefox 5
I was planning to do a review of Firefox 4 when that came out a while back, but I just never got around to it. Thankfully, Mozilla have a new, far shorter release cycle for their browser so I can just skip 4 and move straight to 5. Also thankfully, not much has changed from [...]
WWDC 2011 – Part 3: iOS5
The main new features of iOS5 are the new notification centre, wi-fi syncing and the ability to be PC free and iMessage among others. Notification centre is definitely the biggest and most significant update. I got my first smartphone a while back, a Sony Ericsson Android phone. It doesn’t run the most up to date [...]
WWDC 2011 – Part 2: iCloud
I think iCloud is fantastic. When it was first announced, we assumed generally that it would be the name for a new iTunes streaming service but it ended up being so much more, and all of it great. I’ve been saying for such a long time now that I thought Apple should compete with Google [...]
WWDC 2011 – Part 1: Lion
Apple did something uncharacteristic this year in the lead up to WWDC, they announced what they were going to show at the conference. We knew they would be covering Mac OS Lion, iOS5 and iCloud at the event. Normally they have kept quiet even when the cover had all but been blown on an upcoming [...]
Chromebooks are finally here, but they cost how much?
I honestly don’t understand the pricing strategy on the new Samsung based Google Chromebooks. These go for £350 and £400 and are primarily cloud computers. The £400 3G model may be worth the price if you do get the 3G service for free, although that may be a limited time offer or for the long [...]
iPad 2
Before getting into my impressions after watching the Apple event, I just want to mention that it was great to see Steve back already for this event. I was sure we would be seeing Phil Schiller take over for the next couple of announcements. It’s not that he does a bad job, but no one [...]
Tumblr fully introduces Explore
Tumblr has now officially introduced and expanded upon a feature which I wrote about a while back. Originally known as curated topics, they’ve renamed the feature as simply “Explore”. Tumblr has appointed many curators for specific tags on the site. Not everything is covered of course, that would be close to impossible, but they have [...]
