Archive for the 'Software' Category

Opera + Delicious awesomeness

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

It took me some time to get into Delicious, I never really saw the pull of it. I could never be bothered to copy a URL, goto the site, login, and post it.
That was until I found something that smooths the whole process out. I am an Opera user, and unless it [...]

Opera Mini displaying 1 billion pages a month

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Over at Opera Watch, there’s a lovely graph showing page views per month shown on Opera Mini.  It’s one of those sharply rising graphs we’re used to seeing from popular web start ups.  About 100,000 page views in March 2006, to almost a billion page views in July 2007.
I think that’s pretty awesome, the market shares might [...]

Desktop to lose its web access monopoly

Monday, March 12th, 2007

People have talked for years about how everyones going t be accessing the internet via their mobile phones, or through some screen on the door of their fridge, or some such other ‘alternative device’. But it’s never happened, almost all internet traffic is still done through a desktop/laptop PC/Mac.
Most mobile phones are useless when [...]

Bug vs Feature

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

“I’m a bug - I’m a feature” ads coming soon

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I think someone has gotten the wrong end of the stick here.
The article is suggesting that a certain Trading Standards Officer has a problem with distributing free software.
The Trading Standards Officer said they had:
encountered businesses which were selling copies of Firefox, and wanted [...]

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

I just installed the Performancing.com Firefox Extension and writing this post to see how it works.
It’s an extension that lets you hook up to various blog platforms (blogger, hosted and custom Wordpress, livejournal, typepad, moveable type) and post to them from Firefox itself, [...]

Scoble on why Apple go x86

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

[quote]To understand why Steve Jobs fired IBM you need to look no further than the Lenovo Thinkpad T41 Tablet PC.[/quote]
[quote]But, it all comes down to performance. This new [Lenovo] machine is using a very fast Intel processor that uses very little power, and generates very little heat.
That’s something that IBM wasn’t able to give Steve [...]

Apple & Intel

Monday, June 6th, 2005

From Kottke

a number of people worried about … Apple losing out on future hardware sales when OS X can run on a $300 PC available at Wal-Mart.

And that’s a problem because?

Podcasting, some thoughts

Monday, June 6th, 2005

OK, so I’ve done a bit of listening to some podcasts, mostly from Adam Curry, though also a few others, and I’ve got a few comments….

Council moving to StarOffice Suite

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Bristol City Council (South West England, about an hour from me) are rolling out Sun’s StarOffice to 3,500 PC’s.