Archive for July, 2008
The 200
It has been a while since we had a good ole riot. Ah yes, you know that recession is in town when you have a riot of movie proportions, hitting the streets in Ireland. Apparently there was a riot in Mullingar today, involving about 200 people. As of yet there has been no reasons for the riot but the Gardaí did manage to make one arrest - well done lads, that's a 0.5% hit rate. source: Breaking News
Cuil – is it cool?
Reading yesterday's FT I spotted just how out of touch I was with recent events in the world of the internet. A brand new search engine, hyped as a possible competitor to Google, has emerged. Written as Cuil but pronounced "cool" it straightaway fails on the potential of having somebody say "have you cooled them yet?" without making it sound like an extract from a mafia conversation.I stopped by, briefly, to see what Cuil had to offer and immediately I am struck by the plain black page with an off-centre search box that is not only leaning on the left hand side of the page but which also [...]
Living with iPhone
So, I've been a bit negative in general about the iPhone. I've been steadfast with respect to my opinion that the product merges two products that just should not be composed, when one is an essential communications device. Last week I had an e-mail from some cousins in Australia (big hello to Beth and the gang) talking about the iPhone and wondering if I had any opinions on it; I decided that it was time that I tried it out rather than just ranting on about it. So I borrowed an iPhone that was badly hacked by some unknown person, re-installed the original 1.1.4 firmware and listened to what [...]
MacBook Air Alternative?
I'm rarely enthused by the actions of those who "hack" software and hardware together that never had previous meetings but this is different. The MSI Wind (aka an Advent sub notebook) has a very nice 10" screen and is now capable of running Mac OSX Leopard, albeit with a few hacks that are not for the feint hearted. The upside though is that the hardware is cheap and a really good OS is cheap too and you can have your very own MacBook Air comparative that's lightweight and runs Leopard. It's cool and I want to build one now! Too bad I decided to stop comforting myself with electronic [...]
