New 2010 Mac Air – a quick review
Well, I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the new baby. An eleven inch baby Mac Air arrived yesterday and the initial thoughts are, well, feck me it’s small, light and ultra-sexy (is that allowed?). In fact it’s a good deal smaller than I thought it would be and it actually fits (end-on) into [...]
Apple turns the screws on Flash
Apple are now shipping the new, netbook-sized, replacement for the Mac Air and ignoring the hyperbole around “version updates” and “consumer choice” it seems that the Mac Air will ship without Adobe’s Flash system. For years most manufacturers have shipped Flash as standard on PCs and Laptops, albeit usually an out of date version. So [...]
Privacy war steps up a gear
In recent news from our friends in Brussels it seems that the war on privacy piracy is stepping up a gear or three and now the UK will be in the European courts after failing to respond to infringement charges last year. The backlash from Brussels was brought about after a campaign of complaints by [...]
It’s all coming together… on Twitter
For years, Twitter users have been split between those who predominantly tweet directly through the website and those who choose to use third party applications. As I currently sit amongst the latter group opting to use Tweetie on Mac and Twitter (formally part of the Tweetie app family) on the iPhone, I can only give my opinion on why people choose to do shy away from the web interface.
Intelligent browsing is here
We are starting to see the beginnings of intelligent browsers that are centred around the needs of people and not companies. Apple have released Safari 5.0 and it has a really neat [READER] button at the end of the address bar that quite cleverly turns a advert-loaded web page into a lovely, clean browsing experience. [...]
Email is dead?
Radical? Not really, but communication is changing and that does mean the use of email as the defacto communication medium is coming to an end. Ask anyone under the age of 21 how they communicate and they’ll mention Text, Facebook and MSN but hardly ever mention email. To the Generation Y population email is just [...]
River Island loses its flash
It’s great to see the retailer River Island eventually give up the Flash ghost – their new site is hardly ground-breaking and just looks very “me-too” but critically they’ve decided it’s time to bow to usability pressure and get rid of the flash monstrosity they’ve been using for the last few years. Another nail in [...]
Internet Stats : 2010
Nearly 19 million households now have internet access, 11% up on 2008 with 76% of adults now having access. It is interesting to note that still over 10m have still never accessed the web (Europe has now 420m internet users). The UK (almost) tops the European table of usage with an average of 29hrs per [...]
Zuckerberg…unplugged
The somewhat quiet and reserved founder of Facebook is going to be the central character in a new Hollywood film “The Social Network” due for release in a couple of weeks. Most people outside of the webby world won’t have heard of Zuck before so it’s likely to be a bit of a shock for [...]
Privacy arms race is hotting up
You cannot help to notice that privacy is fast becoming one of the hottest subjects in town. Driven, in part, by the social networking revolution every Tom, Dick and Harry are throwing great new applications at us such as Facebook, Gowalla, Google Me (?) with the aim of capturing a large slice of our social [...]
