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Anti-noise App Idea

Posted in Misc on Mar 31st, 2010

people would pay, I am certain, to have their televisions mute the sound when certain politicians are speaking.

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First Impressions: Ubuntu 10.04

Posted in Misc on Mar 25th, 2010

A first look at Ubuntu 10.04. The commercialization is already alienating some open source purists, some of whom are busy forking Ubuntu already, but if it lights a fire under Linux, and if the revenue earned funds the improvement of components that are shared across distributions, it’s hardly the end of the world.

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World Daylight Map

Posted in Misc on Mar 5th, 2010

A review of some world time applications that display a map of the world showing daytime and nightime.

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Another Blasted iPhone Customer

Posted in Misc on Apr 29th, 2009

My Treo 650 has been retired for a month. I finally bought, or rather subscribed to, an iPhone (16Gb 3G, 18 months at £35/month). Not having the Internet on tap anywhere and everywhere, with an unlimited data plan, is now even more inconceivable than I expected; 3G makes all the difference. I’ll just write off [...]

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Bluetooth Keyboards Again

Posted in Misc on Mar 18th, 2009

I considered bringing my Ubuntu-powered Asus 1000 netbook on this trip but decided in favour of the much larger Samsung R60+ (which I reviewed here). It runs Vista and Office 2007 and would make working with Microsoft Office documents a bit easier. A netbook with a long battery life would have been ideal, but only [...]

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