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Month: June 2010

  • iBooks could convert me, only if…

    I’ve writ­ten before about the flawed state-of-the-art that exists with eBook read­ers. It all relates to busi­ness mod­el and DRM. Though today, I think I may change my tune, maybe just modi­fy it a bit — thanks to iTunes (believe it or not). …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts…

  • Second thoughts on Apple’s upcoming iOS4 operating system

    Earli­er today, Apple kicked off their World Wide Developers Con­fer­ence with the tra­di­tion­al key­note present­a­tion by Steve Jobs. Tris did an excel­lent job of live blog­ging the event and I pos­ted my ini­tial (and some­what per­son­ally ori­ented) per­spect­ive of the announce­ment of iOS4 on my own blog. But then, a bit of time passed… But…

  • Apple just made my iPod Touch even more useful — not

    Today Apple (well, Steve Jobs) announced a num­ber of things at WWDC (Apple’s World Wide Developer­’s Conference). The one caught my atten­tion  was the announce­ment of iOS4 — the oper­at­ing sys­tem pre­vi­ously known as iPhone OS. Sure, there was a new iPhone, and a bunch of oth­er stuff, but I have an iPod Touch (2nd…

  • This is the week that was

    Face­book CEO gets hot and bothered while being grilled over pri­vacy; Apple gets a new Spy­ware app (!), and the guy behind @BPGlobalPR talks about why he’s up to what he’s up to… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post…

  • How DLNA enabled media centre components work together

    It’s not magic nor rock­et science…it’s just Tech! Mak­ing DLNA work in your home media centre.. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Potatoe Slow. Opera Fast [Video]

    It’s Fri­day, and I’ve been remiss in post­ing videos, so here’s a Two­fur — A video about two of my favour­ite browsers — Opera and Chrome. Po.Tate.O. Pota­toe Slow. Opera Fast. Though if you want some real info on the browser test, check this out.

  • Using your phone to control your media centre with DLNA

    A few months ago I had the pleas­ure to attend a Sam­sung product demo that included some very cool HDTV and 3DTV tech­no­logy. Today we look at DLNA. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Saving the Internet, one plugin at a time

    Well, a few posts ago I men­tioned that I’d taken steps to speed up this blog. Here’s a Ping­dom response time graph show­ing how fast slow this blog was, before I pulled a few plugins. And here’s what it looks like today. So, accord­ing to these res­ults, the blog is faster. And what I’d done was­n’t…

  • eBooks — not quite there yet.

    Recently I bought a simple eBook read­er online. My wife has one too, from a dif­fer­ent man­u­fac­turer. All’s good; they both work great and make it easi­er to read books in situ­ations where turn­ing pages is harder than press­ing a but­ton (on the tread­mill, for example). It’s also great to have a nice light device…