If you’ve got a spare GBP 50K lying around and you have a reinforced floor in your living room then you might want to splash out on the 103 inch Panasonic plasma TV. Weighing in at a mere 220kg or 350kg if you use the stand this monster flat screen certainly won’t be wall-mounted and…
Apple’s next version of OSX, codenamed Leopard, was originally scheduled for release in mid-June. Now it is incurring a four month delay with the blame landing on the doorstep of the iPhone development. Personally I am very upset by this. I am on the verge of buying a new Mac might have waited until June…
For a while now I’ve been using the tags feature of MovableType which those in the know will be aware is completely useless outside of your own blog. It’s a nice feature to tag your entries and allow others to search within your tag base but serves no purpose at all for search engines such…
Thanks to Brian W for the link. Steorn, that mystical Irish company with the free energy from magnets technology are set to make an announcement tomorrow, Friday 13th. This update is with respect to the independent review process of their technology. What will come from this announcement, I can only sit and wonder. The marketing…
A perfect example of trying to police the content of the interweb’s social sites/blogs. Depending on the person taking exception, the harassed may become the harasser. This case involves a high school in the US where students, at home and on their own computers, made a fake my space profile for their headmaster and posted…
For a little while now since the Kathy Sierra incident, the blogosphere has been kicking around the notion of a blogger’s code of conduct. Frankly when I first heard the idea I was gobsmacked that people who make their living/popularity from free speech and all things anarchical should even toy with such an idea. I’ve…
iPods have just hit the 100 million sales mark – now the fastest selling music player in history. Now that’s what I call marketing! source: The Register
At some stage or another you’ll have several computers, network attached storage devices, backup DVDs and still maintain a healthy dose of paranoia regarding the potential loss of your digital data. Web-based storage solutions have been around for some time now, I think the first one I ever used was Winamp’s locker service for storing…
Just to top off on a Google filled day (BTW I just downloaded Google Desktop for my Mac and by God does my Mac hate me right now – I assume normal service will resume after the initial index). Anyway ever fancied a job as one of the top executives of Google? Would it put…
Another Google related article! Looks like Google Desktop for Mac is finally set for release next week. Offering Mac users the ability to easily index their hard disk and their iDisk and return search results in a simple format. Finally an alternative to Finder/Spotlight… but why? source: Slashdot