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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (along with Windows Server 2012) represent Microsoft’s bet on the next four years of personal and business computing. Windows 8 is getting a lot of negative press, from everywhere, while Windows Phone 8 is slated to be the final nail in Nokia’s coffin. But is this really indicative of […]
Continue ReadingI’ve spoken of my excitement for Firefox OS before, but now Mozilla have released version 1.0 of the operating system simulator into the wild. An entirely-web-based operating system poses an enticing, compelling experience for the user; an experience known as “continuous client” because it follows you across your devices as if you were using the […]
Continue ReadingThe Task List in Visual Studio is apparently very well hidden. But if you’ve ever put a “TODO” comment in some code in Visual Studio, you’ve already started to use it! This is a feature of Visual Studio that has been around since at least VS 2005 and yet I talk to so many developers […]
Continue ReadingWhat are you good at? What do you, or your business, do best? Is there something you do better than anybody else? Once you have identified your specialism, turn it into a graph. TL;DR: I predict that graphs will become the standard way of storing and sharing information. And that providing graphs containing useful information such […]
Continue ReadingPop quiz, hotshot, the image shows a common JavaScript ‘gotcha’ – or inadvertent mistake through incomplete knowledge of something. What exactly is happening here? You create a simple function called “getPerson”, and it returns you a JSON object with a single property on it, “name”. However! When you come to use the “name” property, it […]
Continue ReadingMySpace. Remember them? They were ‘Facebook’ back when Nokia ruled the mobile world, Yahoo! was the world’s second most popular search engine, oil was cheap, flying was luxurious and Saddam Hussein had loads of WMDs. Then Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook turned up and stole everyone. Rupert Murdoch bought the ailing MySpace for a smidge under $600m […]
Continue ReadingIs Amazon Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos on Twitter? Only, I did a quick search and could only find the guy to the right. And I don’t think that’s him. I mean, I doubt he’d post 66.6% of his total Tweet count in French. Plus, he’s not verified. That’s what really tipped me off. Jeff! […]
Continue ReadingOnce the domain of only military pilots and smartbombs, the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system has now proliferated its way into every facet of our modern lives. From Facebook statuses, sat nav in car dashboards to geo-tagged photos taken with your digital camera you probably use GPS at least once a day even if you […]
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