Tag: Technology

  • The New York Times discovers how free pays!

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    I was listening to George Hook, Karlin Lillington and Simon McGarr on The Right Hook yesterday discussing newspapers’ online business models. They referred to the New York Times and how it charged for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives (what it perceived as premium content). Overnight the New…

  • First iPhone photo editor app?

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    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pixenate on the iPhone, originally uploaded by pxn8. Having recently successfully deployed their Pixenate FaceBook app (a photo editor for Facebook), it looks like Sxoop Technologies are now out to be…

  • Backup software for Vista?

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    I want to install a copy of Ubuntu on my laptop. However, when Vista was installed on it, a single partition was made of the hard drive so if I try to install Ubuntu now, it will overwrite the Vista partition (I assume, anyone knowing better, feel free to jump in!). I presume that what…

  • New battery technology imminent?

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    I was reading a report on Ars Technica today about an emerging battery technology which could totally change how we use batteries today. The breakthrough comes from using capacitors as batteries. Up until now this has not been feasible because there hasn’t been a strong enough insulator to make this approach compelling. However, EEstor, the…

  • What are the chances?

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    What are the chances of getting this into Pixenate Walter? via TechCrunch

  • David Boschmans RIP

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    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Microsoft David2, originally uploaded by PeterForret. I heard this morning that my friend David Boschmans died suddenly and unexpectedly last week. David was the Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Belgium. He was…

  • You wait for ages then along come three!

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    I have read a lot about how great the iPhone is but I hadn’t seen any until last Friday; and then I saw three! I was at a lunch in Cork with Britt Blaser and Sean O’Mahoney (amongst others). Both had iPhones. I had a chance to try the phone out for myself and see…

  • Summer book recommendations II

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    Back at the end of June I posted about three books I had bought to read on my holidays. The three books were: David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur and Don Tapscott’s Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything In my naivety I brought another couple of books along as…