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Is Social Networking really social?

May 11, 2010

Here are a few thoughts on social networking (mainly directed at Facebook). The Issues: Collecting friends becomes a habit The collection can become little more than an online status symbol If this happens are these people really your friends? You just opened up your world and made it ‘ privacy invasive’, you’d likely never dream [...]

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Why are Web Applications Superior to their Desktop counterparts?

December 15, 2009

No need for an install or to ship updates The application lives in the cloud and is centrally managed, when you launch the application you will always have the latest version. This leads to a single point for updates and fixes with the user receiving the updated version the next time they use the application. [...]

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What is a QR Code?

December 10, 2009

A QR Code is a two-dimensional bar-code and the name “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as its Japanese creator intended the code  to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes have been very common in Japan, this popularity due to the fact that the majority of  Japanese mobiles can read this code with their camera. QR Codes can [...]

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2 Billion applications downloaded from 40 million Iphones

December 5, 2009

While iPhone is only about 3% of the handset penetration it is responsible for a huge amounts of activity 1.3B Internet users 1.8B Fixed line telephones 2.9B Mobile Phones 4B Mobile users But out of  4B mobile users there are only 40M iPhones (inc about 20M iPod touch). Howver these 40M  have downloaded 2B apps [...]

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Hash key on a mac keyboard osx

October 10, 2009

Having trouble finding the hash key on your Mac keyboard? hold the Alt key down and then press the number 3.

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BlackBerry QuickKeys and Shortcuts

September 25, 2009

Every Day Quick Tips Alt+O = Outbox (sent items) Alt+I = Inbox (received items) Alt+U = Marks messages as read/unread Alt+P = Phone call log Alt+S = SMS messages Alt+V = Voicemail messages Alt+M = MMS messages. U – to cycle through unread messages Once inside the message and you need to: Reply, r. Forward, [...]

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How to repair a VMWare Virtual Disk on OSX

September 9, 2009

If your having an issue with your virtual disk it is worth trying the following: Open a Terminal window /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -R /Users/(USERNAME_HERE or Directory where VM installed)/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows\ Vista.vmwarevm/Windows\ Vista.vmdk If this fails with a message like ‘FILE: FileIO_Lock on ‘/Users/Shared/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows Vista.vmwarevm/Windows Vista.vmdk’ failed: Lock timed out’ then: cd /Users/(USERNAME_HERE or Directory [...]

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HTC Touch Pro2 – The Bad Points

July 17, 2009

Thought I’d highlight the bad points of an otherwise excellent device. no D-Pad Serious lack of buttons you can’t customise the buttons Web browsing isn’t as good as IPhone No voice dialing software bundled. The HTC Touch Flo interface is really nice, but gets in the way of my email. The memory card is located [...]

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