Category Archives: IT

We’ve learnt nothing…

We’ve just been through a crisis caused by people putting too much faith in markets.

I have no idea with Angelgate is true or it’s possible impact but this makes me laugh…

Fabrice Grinda: Musings of an Entrepreneur » Angelgate is overblown!

Another cry of put your faith in markets and it’s be fine. We’ve learnt nothing.

Bloglines…

When I first started using a RSS Reader I used Bloglines.

It served me well for a number of years; then they started having service outages. That drove me mad so I changed to Google. In fact, I think that I used Google reader seriously before Gmail.

However, this appeared in my Google Reader today…

Bloglines to Be Discontinued

Apparently, this is because everyone wants their news via Twitter and Facebook.

Really?

Personally, Facebook is nowhere close to replacing my use of Google Reader. For me, Bloglines died because when I look at the screenshot. Nothing has changed since I logged off years ago.

UPDATE: My account still exists! 13,400 outstanding items to read!

Office software…

I wonder how many people would recognize this as an office software setup…

“Right now in Chromium I have the following tabs opened: I listen to music in Grooveshark (yes I work with music right now Kevin Rudolf “Let it Rock”), I blog in Tumblr, I have Seesmic desktop to see what’s happening in Twitter and Facebook simultaneously, I use Postbox for my email (I love Postbox), Netvibes to find out what is happening in the world (outside of Twitter and Facebook), Gmail is open as well for Gmail back up, calendar. My searches don’t happen at Google.com anymore, they go straight from my browser bar to Google (Firefox must add this feature immediately!). Skype is also running.”

Fancy computers and Microsoft don’t matter anymore (at least at work).

Phone updates…

I’m massively frustrated that the iPad doesn’t have iOS 4 on it. However, when I read the information below I count myself lucky.

“The news is worse for owners of the Motorola Milestone, the Droids overseas twin. According to Motorolas official upgrade timeline, the Milestone will get Froyo in late Q4, but only for Europe and Korea. The Android 2.2 upgrade for Milestone is “under evaluation” for Canada, Latin America, and Mexico.

As expected, other Motorola phones that launched with pre-2.1 versions of Android wont get Froyo at all, at least for the foreseeable future. Motorolas Cliq, Cliq XT, and Backflip are waiting for Android 2.1, for which the Motorola Devour was deemed unfit.”

Motorolas Android 2.2 Rollout: What a Mess – PCWorld.

iPad Apps #4 – TuneIn Radio

I love the radio, it’s an integral part of who I am. I listen to hours of radio every day.

Having CD quality radio on my iPhone is fantastic. The best app that I’ve found is TuneIn Radio. The interface is clean, quick and easy to use.

Highly recommended.

iPhone Screenshot 1

Their web site is here…

http://www.tunein-radio.com/index.html

The app is here…

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=319295332&mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

Conway’s Game of Life in HTML 5

As a Computer Science student I spent many an hour playing with the game of life.

However, the one thing that I wanted to do was change the rules so that there were less stable states (ie – there would be more movement) and yet this games would last a long time. Never did find the right solution to that one.

Conway’s Game of Life in HTML 5.