Category: Tech
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BlackBerry’s PlayBook Fail: Two Weeks Later
I’ve now been using the BlackBerry PlayBook for over two weeks now and to be quite honest its a terrible device but it has yet to win me over. I’m still not too sure if it’s all of the previous years of being a BlackBerry handheld user or the short time I have been using…
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BlackBerry’s PlayBook Doesn’t Play Fair
Once again this morning, I arrived at work and yet another tablet device was thrown onto my desk with a post it saying: “I want my mail on this“. This has become a regular thing over the past couple of weeks and as usual I jump at the challenge of trying to see how a…
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The iPhone Goes Where No Mac Has Gone Before
After a year of using a MacBook full-time in the workplace, my new job has placed me in a position where I am using a Windows Lappie again. There are some good things that are worth giving up for even better opportunities. No matter how humbling it is for a developer to suddenly have his…
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Menage a Trois
Ever notice how bad things always happen in threes? Kind of like Nokia, Microsoft, and now RIM
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Skype for Mac 5.0 Goes Gold, Only Deserves Bronze
My biggest complaint is that it’s still too big and adding users to a call is still a bit of a dark art. Skype also seems to be in a real hurry to ditch audio calls in favour of premium video conference calls which just seem to make everyone involved feel awkward. The reality is…
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Mint.com Shows You How to Crack The Credit Card Code
Cracking The Credit Card Code | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice: “Budget Planner Software – Mint.com” For the would-be hackers, security freaks or shopping cart developers, Mint.com just made your life a lot easier. I’ve been developing e-commerce for almost 15 years and didn’t even know this. pwned ;( UPDATE I’m being…
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Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini
Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini This sounds to me like step one of a three step process: One – get people to integrate their Microsoft Exchange servers, which represent the overwhelming majority of corporate e-mail/calendar/contact servers in use (I arrive at this scientific conclusion because every company I have ever…
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Google Announces Cr-48 Chrome’s First Lappie
Google have finally unveiled their Chrome OS laptop which will be available in the new year and still won’t wrong run any real apps apart from web apps making it almost useless without a high speed internet connection. While I am obviously more than a little attached to my developer needs and my MacBook Pro…
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Reeder for Mac Beta 1 Out -via Forkbombr
ForkBombr — Reeder for Mac Beta 1 Out: “Reeder for Mac — a desktop version of the poplar iOS Google Reader app — is here, in beta form at least. The app looks like its mobile counterpart, complete with a services menu and big buttons. It uses the same keyboard shortcuts as Google Reader does…
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Outlook for Mac 2011: Forget About Exchange Rules Sync
Office 2011: Outlook FAQ | Office | Macworld: “Does Outlook for Mac 2011 allow you to manipulate Exchange server-side rules, as the Windows version does? No.” Want Proof…