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Time to ditch Gmail (in a browser window)

What do you like about the new version? It makes me want to buy an email client, which is probably good for me in the long run, as it will insulate me from unnecessary (web) application UX changes. The New … Continue reading

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Who gets what?

After a raft of injunctions against Samsung, in a dispute over patents and the ‘look and feel’ of the new Galaxy tablet, Apple have now decided to start threatening retailers in Europe. You have to wonder why Apple appear to … Continue reading

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Time to ditch Firefox

After a raft of pointless UI changes and a move to a senselessly rapid development cycle, the Mozilla developers have decided in their wisdom to make it harder to find the version number in Firefox. Way to go guys, that … Continue reading

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Fr*gging auto updaters

Opera have just joined the ranks of “companies unable to write auto update software”. My working install of Opera, running on a Macbook with Tiger auto updated itself yesterday. Of course, the Opera auto updater, like the Skype for Mac … Continue reading

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“So that’s why the Wifi has stopped working”

Here is a post for those of you out there involved in designing home routers. In particular those of you involved in the important design details of the positioning of buttons. IF you are going to put a button on … Continue reading

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Nokia C3-00 and watching videos

I bought a Nokia C3-00 a while back, simlock free of course. I never got on with texting using T9 and a standard phone keyboard so if I were to buy a phone it would have to have a QWERTY … Continue reading

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Can a socialist be a technophile?

The thought just popped into my head after writing the previous two posts. Given that most people confuse new ways to sell you things with new technology, can a socialist join in with the capitalistic, pseudo-monopolies of the current internet … Continue reading

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Oh you technophobe!

I’m a technophobe? I don’t think so. If I’m a ‘phobe’ of some sort then ‘commercephobe’ would be a better term. People confuse a phobia of restricted commercial practices with luddite-ism. Ads everywhere, mobile devices tethered to the company that … Continue reading

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The internet is dead, long live the smartphone app.

Now in this stage of the internet we are experiencing the internet equivalent of the land enclosures acts. Everyone trying to wall off a bit of common, open internet space and push internet serfdom on the rest of us. The … Continue reading

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Fantastic Fantastico.

When I installed my first WordPress blog on this site, I used the Fantastico program that came with Cpanel. This seemed to go fine until I tried moving the mm blog from mistymornings.net/blogs to mistymornings.net/blogs/mm. The move itself went fine, … Continue reading

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