Last week I berated the company for lacking marketing flair, but this week I’ve been justifyably drooling over Microsoft PixelSense. Things change so quickly in tech. That’s why I love it so… $8,000 is a lot for a glass coffee table with a plasma screen under it, but Continue Reading
Twitter v2.0
There is a lot of talk around at the moment about Twitter’s new stance on 3rd party applications integrating with the service. Twitter has pretty much banned clone applications like Tweetbot, and went as far as buying Tweetdeck for $40 million. Twitter says it doesn’t want third party developers to “build Continue Reading
How Governments have Tried to Block TOR
TOR (The Onion Router) is a second Internet running inside the existing Internet. It allows people from countries with strict regimes to bypass blocking and monitoring software. This is a video from the guys behind TOR claiming lots of things about how Governments are using Internet surveillance and censorship to Continue Reading
Firefox OS
As many expected, the Mozilla “Boot to Gecko” project has become “Firefox OS”. Gecko is the software behind the scenes of the Firefox web browser that reads the HTML, style sheets, etc. code and converts it into a webpage. Boot-to-Gecko is Mozilla’s plan to make a mobile phone platform based entirely Continue Reading
Google Glass Steals the Show at IO ’12
Today, Google’s annual IO developers conference kicked off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. During a talk by patronising Google+ Chief, Vic Gundotra, Google co-founder, Sergey Brin thankfully interrupted wearing one of the pairs of “Google Glass” glasses we’ve seen him and vocally-impaired other-co-founder, Larry Page, sporting lately.One commenter Continue Reading
Func<T> vs. Action<T>
Although I’ve been using Func<T> and Action<T> for years, I’m embarrassed to say I hadn’t really thought about the differences between them – or more importantly, how they are in fact two sides of the same coin. Most of the time their use has been a natural reflex action to Continue Reading
Facebook to Allow Post Editing
Facebook will soon let you edit your posts and comments, but in my gut I don’t agree with this. It feels wrong. You see, Facebook is special. Very special in fact. It isn’t just a website, it’s grown beyond that. It’s much more than just a fancy bulletin-board or a Continue Reading
New Google Maps – A Real, 3D Virtual Earth!
Google are making me eat my words about them not being innovative on an almost-daily basis. And i couldn’t be happier!! Have you seen the new Google Maps? They say… Since 2006, we’ve had textured 3D buildings in Google Earth, and we’re excited to announce that we’ll begin adding 3D Continue Reading