admin @ December 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In September 2008, jaws dropped at the TechCrunch 50 conference.
The reason was the Sekai Camera, an iPhone application that takes the view from the phone’s camera and augments it with data overlays including user-generated content.
Could this be the future of social apps?
Er, probably not. The demo was eye-popping, but details are frustratingly thin [...]
admin @ December 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The netbook trend has been called something of a Trojan Horse for the spread of Linux; we’re not about to disagree.
The number of Linux users is increasing exponentially, and there’s a good chance you’re among them if Santa has been kind.
Netbook sales in 2008 have been nothing short of astonishing.
The typical netbook is user [...]
admin @ December 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The iPhone SDK (software development kit) is free to download at www.apple.com/developer, but only for Mac OS X. It’s based on the same Xcode development suite used to develop many Mac OS X apps, which provides a versatile environment for writing the Objective-C code that underpins iPhone software. It’s complemented by companion tools, such as [...]
admin @ December 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You don’t have to be Amazon or Facebook to generate income from the web.
The modest presence you already have – whether it’s a regularly updated blog, fan page or community message board – may be enough to provide a decent trickle of cash.
Many of the methods available can be implemented with very little [...]
admin @ December 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sit down for a moment and think about the best gadgetry of 2008.
Not just the best-selling kit, but those products that raised the technology bar and said to their rivals (somewhat smugly): “go on then, jump over that!”
There’s been a lot of great technology this year, but we think that the biggest impact has been [...]
admin @ December 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Browser choice boils down to a matter of either taste or apathy, depending on your technical background.
A larger number of IT-savvy people choose Firefox over Windows’ default option of Internet Explorer 7 because it’s easily customised and there’s a wealth of add-ons and extensions available for it.
Some people stick with IE out of [...]
admin @ December 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When it comes to DVD recorders, the bargain end of the market is predominantly swimming in no-name Chinese imports. Some are perfunctionary, even fewer perform above their status, but most suck more than a Dyson. Good news, however, has arrived at this end of the market in the form of the unashamedly ‘entry level’ recorder [...]
admin @ December 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
BitTorrent’s been around for some time now, and the chances are that you’ve tried using it to download large files.
The big attraction of the protocol is that it spreads the load of any file transfer across a swarm of computers that are both uploading and downloading.
In theory, this irons out any kinks and [...]
admin @ December 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I have a quad-core CPU, super-fast hard disks and heaps of RAM – Linux is already pretty darn nippy if you ask me!
Perhaps. But, let’s face it: if it takes more than 30 seconds to get from pressing the power button to you reading your email, that’s 30 seconds you could have spent chatting to [...]
admin @ December 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In common with other parts of the early Unix operating system, the term ‘daemon’ gives little away about what its function might be.
A daemon is a task that runs in the background, and there’s a small army of them that are started when you fire up your machine. There are daemons for controlling automated [...]