Getting playlists into and out of Spotify

Much as I love Spotify, I worry that my playlists and starred items (I use the star to note that I like a tune and want it downloaded to my mobile devices) are only in Spotify, and that a) new services will come along and b) Spotify doesn’t pay artists much if...
Spam from your friends? Could be Facebook’s fault

Spam from your friends? Could be Facebook’s fault

Facebook Says Misconfiguration Allowed Spammers To Impersonate Users. Old news, but I guess this wasn’t big news because we have only seen spam as a result. I hope that’s all that was going on. It does explain why I’m still getting messages...
How can Google maps be so good?

How can Google maps be so good?

Wow. Nokia HERE (I hate weird caps) is rubbish. There is a Lego display in Times Square right now, but no swimming pool. And it is lucky for you if you have a smattering of not-quite-yutping that you can see the Causeway Bay MTR station (Tung Lo Wan Zaam), although it...

Predicting tech

How To Predict The Future has a slightly silly title but uses a very simple method to look at what hardware developments say about the likely availability of breakthrough innvoation in services.

Google Now for apps accounts

The toggle is a bit hidden at the bottom of Mobile settings>Org Settings>Android Settings. But it works. Google Apps Mobile Management: Org Settings – Google Apps Help.

Data wrangler

Data Wrangler for all of the data geeks out there. Really neat pro-active cleaning and management of messy data sets.