Just when I thought that those annoying Google popups telling me to install Google Chrome had gone way, those evil things made their return yesterday to IE7, IE9, Firefox 9 and 10, and Safari. Strangely that damn popup did not appear in Opera. What does it take to destroy that annoying Google popup? Clearly Google [...]
Further to what I think of as Google abusing its dominant position in constantly targeting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers and asking the user to switch to Google’s Chrome browser, there appears to be a change now. My previous rants on this: Google, you’re still annoying me and abusing your position http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/12/16/718.html Google abusing its dominant [...]
I had originally posted my quick review of the iPad ebook/app version of Richard Dawkins book “The Magic of reality” in the iTunes store a few days ago (late October) but, for whatever reason, the review has not shown up there. I have therefore taken the opportunity to post that review here albeit with this [...]
Well, well, well. Why do I say that? Now here’s a tale… There’s a very popular free iPhone app called “Talking Tom Cat” by Outfit 7. It’s an interactive cat and the kids love it (and a few adults too!). As a free app I was not in the least bit surprised to see that [...]
As good as iTunes is, in some respects it’s just brain dead. Take the case of synching your photos between a PC and an iPad. I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) and have a number of photos taken over many years and other jpegs of paintings. Quite a number of these are drafts, duplicates [...]
I bought an iPad a few days ago. It is a very sexy-looking device and there are some really cool apps for it. But there are also a few issues with the iPad. There’s no Flash and hence I don’t get the “whole internet”. Same with the iPhone. It’s quite heavy so needs to be [...]
After my Future of music – my vision! article posted in January 2008, Wired has just put up an article regarding the new Microsoft Zune MP3 players, where it seems that the Zunes will implement the ability to purchase songs heard on the Zune’s FM radio. My original thoughts were that Apple would be the first [...]
I own an Apple iPod touch (32GB). Now that the 3G version of the iPhone is out, the latest software firmware (version 2.0) for the iPod touch has also been released. The cheek of it is that Apple are trying to charge me £5.99 to obtain this firmware! Are Apple really trying to make me regret [...]
Having bought the 80GB Zune 2 MP3 player, I treated myself to the 32GB iPod touch from Kuala Lumpur after all that hard work on the Borneo Orangutan Adventure. The iPod touch is a really sleek design, a joy to hold and look at. However, even with the latest firmware (1.1.4), the iPod touch crashes on [...]
A device, whether mobile or fixed, such as a laptop, a mobile telephone, a desktop, etc which is used (as one of its functions) to receive “radio” stations from the air (using radio techniques such as VHF/FM, DAB, etc) or “streamed” such as from an Internet connection over xDSL, WiFi, etc. Such a device, using automatic [...]
