by Tom | Jun 3, 2010 | Personal, Tech
I had a play with an iPad at the Apple Store in Brent Cross today, so here’s my summary:I have plenty of Apple kit, and I always like it. Apple’s after sale service has been poor for me, but to be fair it is normally because things I think should be in...
by Tom | May 6, 2010 | Business, Tech
How cool to be able to design your house on a computer and then press enter to have it created in sandstone at full size. I’ll say it again: 3D printing will be disruptive to a vast range of industries and I’m not sure many have seen it coming.
by Tom | May 6, 2010 | Business, Tech
I’m glad that we are finding other approaches to combat the copyright lobbyists. I guess it is slightly left-field to lump schools and Google together, but you can see that there is a grain of truth there. In summary: fair use-dependent organisations contribute...
by Tom | Apr 14, 2010 | Tech
It’s quite a strong statement from Apple: “you can only use our compiler to write code for our devices”. The Adobe guys must be gutted at having developed a dead smart system for getting Flash-based code to compile for iPhone.There is a good argument...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2010 | Tech
AppBrain looks like a nice idea: browse and install Android apps from a web page rather than from the phone. It is much easier to read a chunk of comments this way than on the machine.
by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Tech
Google is a million processing units. That doesn’t sound very big. The fact that the largest cloud computing network on the planet is Conficker (a botnet created by a worm) is a little scary.
