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Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID

Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID

Three patent applications made by Apple were published on Thursday, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved,...

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[3 Jul 2009]

by David Meyer


Thursday 28 May 2009, 8:19 AM

Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" - It Just Keeps Getting Better

From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | 17 comments

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J.A. Watson I have now loaded the new release of Linux Mint on all four of my laptop and netbook computers. It loaded absolutely smoothly on all four of them, including both HP 2133 netbooks, with no problems and no special "tricks" required. As I mentioned... more


Tuesday 9 June 2009, 10:33 AM

Why Normal People Don't Use Linux

From Web design & FOSS | 16 comments

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Jake Rayson aka The Four Eyes A way back I blogged in a self-important and knowing way about Why People Don’t Use GNU/Linux. I'd like to update that now, and thus the appearance of The Four Eyes: 1. Inertia: it’s a lot of effort... more


Monday 15 June 2009, 2:38 AM

Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?

From Khaotic Musings | 14 comments

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conz You've probably caught up with the news that Microsoft is going to offer a version of Windows to the European market, without Internet Explorer pre-installed. This seems to be a ploy that isn't making anyone happy. My interest here isn't... more


Thursday 28 May 2009, 6:54 AM

Radical Idea: Charge Vendors for Software Deployed in Schools

From Khaotic Musings | 14 comments

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conz Many years back, when I had the time to make the rounds at various government education departments, I asked the brass why on earth they didn't charge software vendors (like Microsoft, Adobe et al) for software the government's schools put in... more


Thursday 7 May 2009, 9:09 AM

GIMP - what's in a name?

From Web design & FOSS | 11 comments

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Jake Rayson I believe in Free Software. This is a strange thing to say, rather like believing in air or water. As Rupert Goodwin pointed out in a recent blog entry “open source isn't about benevolence”; there is an advantage to be gained from... more


Thursday 4 June 2009, 5:31 PM

First impressions of the Nokia N97

From Communication Breakdown | Reviews Blog | On The Road | 8 comments

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David Meyer I'm currently having a play with the Nokia N97, the Finnish handset maker's big play against the new iPhone and the Palm Pre – both of which are expected to land around the same time as the N97, in the next few weeks. I haven't spent too... more



Friday 15 May 2009, 5:51 AM

WINE and the importance of application compatibility

From Khaotic Musings | 7 comments

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conz With much talk in recent days about the worthwhile-ness and importance of WINE to the success of desktop Linux, I though it worth re-posting a piece I'd penned a little while ago... One of my favourite areas of amateur endeavour is researching... more


Wednesday 13 May 2009, 8:33 PM

Windows 7: Paint a Lemon and Call it Innovation?

From Official Mobile Security & Innovative Technologies Blog | Small Business Blog | 7 comments

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MobileTech Windows 7: Paint a Lemon and Call it Innovation? Author: Eric Everson In the automotive industry junk cars are dubbed lemons; these are the junkers that shady auto dealers repaint and polish just to make the cars more attractive to unsuspecting... more


Thursday 18 June 2009, 3:37 PM

Apple 3G S fetishists - your number is up

From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 7 comments

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Rupert Goodwins With the release of Apple iPhone OS 3.0, a widespread affliction has become a true, World Health Organisation recognised pandemic. I speak, of course, of the almost eroticised fetishisation that many iPhone owners have for their hardware: it... more


Friday 26 June 2009, 9:09 AM

A Norwegian Technology Odyssey

From Software application development | 6 comments

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Adrian Bridgwater I've spent a couple of days in Oslo, Norway this week meeting with a few local IT companies and have been profoundly impressed by the country's attitude to technology and the way it works to develop it. IT is now the second largest land-based... more


Wednesday 17 June 2009, 7:49 AM

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and IT survey statistics

From Software application development | 5 comments

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Adrian Bridgwater I would have thought that given the number of IT surveys we see floating past us these days that more tech bloggers would have referenced the phrase attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and also associated with Mark Twain when we look at these things,... more


Friday 12 June 2009, 4:50 AM

What Open Source shares with Science

From Khaotic Musings | 5 comments

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conz I had a lengthy discussion with a new acquaintance the other day, and as it so often does in conversations I'm involved in, topics eventually shifted to the philosophy of knowledge and ideas, and their impact on the improvements within human... more


Saturday 20 June 2009, 5:42 PM

How giving Twitter away can make it money

From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 5 comments

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Rupert Goodwins You may have noticed that we've started to get much more involved with Twitter. That's partially my fault - I'm a certified addict - and partially recognition by everyone involved that Twitter has become a very important part of the online environment. Twitter... more


Friday 8 May 2009, 3:08 PM

The true cost to the BBC of iPlayer...

From Mixed Signals | 5 comments

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Rupert Goodwins Over on CNet, Nate Lanxon has delivered a stonking piece on the technical background to the BBC's iPlayer servers. Which does raise the question, though: is it value for money? I'm trying to work out how much more - or less - it costs... more


Thursday 21 May 2009, 9:19 AM

IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession

From Software application development | 4 comments

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Adrian Bridgwater IBM put out a study datelined one minute past midnight this Thursday morning commenting on the fact that outside of netbooks, the recession has largely put the kibosh on PC growth. There is according to IBM, however, an area of PC investment... more


Thursday 18 June 2009, 6:54 AM

Bizarre Windows 7 Downgrade/Upgrade Policies Coming

From Jamie's Random Musings | Vista Upgrade Blog | 4 comments

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J.A. Watson Over at the ZDNet U.S. site, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has posted about what will apparently be a new low in bizarre downgrade/upgrade policies involving Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. It sounds like Microsoft has outdone themselves... more


Tuesday 30 June 2009, 1:18 PM

More on Moblin

From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | On The Road | 4 comments

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J.A. Watson The Moblin steering committee has announced the "release" of the Moblin 2.0 Beta for netbooks and nettops. I have a couple of questions and comments about that, before I get into the last few observations about the software. First, what... more


Friday 5 June 2009, 3:39 PM

Leaving Windows behind

From Web design & FOSS | 4 comments

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Jake Rayson I have spent a happy morning installing Windows XP on the computers at the Youth Centre. Windows XP is really showing its age, in terms of speed of installation and hardware support. The most frustrating element was the need to authenticate... more


Tuesday 12 May 2009, 12:43 PM

Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant

From Communication Breakdown | 4 comments

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David Meyer The UK Film Council and other luminaries of the creative industries have gone on the warpath about filesharing, calling for persistent sharers to be kicked off the internet. According to the BBC, the coalition "wants the government to force... more


Monday 8 June 2009, 8:40 AM

Reboot bandicoot!

From Web design & FOSS | 3 comments

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Jake Rayson An old friend of mine, Download Dave, used to shout out “Reboot bandicoot!” every time his mac used to crash. This was a cultural reference to Crash Bandicoot, a computer game from way back when. Recently I've been working... more


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Etymotic hf2 custom fit earphones

It was way back last year that a guy called Andy Shiach came to my house and syringed a thick gloop into my ears. It was in a good cause. Andy is an ex musician who damaged his ears while playing....

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Zoho socialises Projects 2.0

After a teaser campaign that mentioned integrated Zoho web-based services and a 'popular Microsoft product', Zoho has unveiled Zoho Projects 2.0, which brings together Microsoft Project and a...

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HP Mini 2140 - I Get To Try One!

I have been wanting to get my hands on an HP Mini 2140 netbook ever since I read the first announcement for it. I already own an HP 2133 Mini-Note (wouldn't it be nice if they would be more...

J.A. Watson

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Apple patents point to haptics, finger...

Three patent applications made by Apple were published on Thursday, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved,... More

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NoSQL and the monster mutation

Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle... More

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