Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
I've been now playing with Apple's iPhone SDK for a week or so after joining the developer program. My first impressions are quite positive, given that I'd never before written a single line of Objective-C or having any deeper knowledge of Cocoa and other relevant frameworks on OS X.
After doing ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Once again, Steve Outing had a thought provoking article about local news. Pretty much the same idea has been lingering in my mind for a while, not least because I'm an active user of Jaiku. The things I think play in favor of microblogging against local news are quite simple: ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
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Sony has released a new firmware revision for their PRS-505 Reader. The most notable features are support for Adobe Digital Editions and PDF text reflowing. The latter is most interesting for me, as I tend to keep lot of scientific publications on my reader and those ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
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As the launch of Apple's new revision of the iPhone is approaching, there has been growing amount of criticism towards Apple not introducing anything really revolutionary with the new product. This critique is normally heard from U.S. and that is understandable, given that U.S. is still lagging behind ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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So it was destined to happen: Google announced that they are also entering the virtual world arena with Lively, a browser based VW implementation. While there has been a lot of buzz and a lot of VC dollars involved with VW business this year, this news means trouble ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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According to pretty much every possible news outlet, Toyota will be adding solar panels to their Prius line of hybric cars. One thing that bugs me in all of these so called "green" goods is that there is no mention of the emissions from the manufacture of such ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
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If you, like me, use Google Bookmarks for centrally storing bookmarks and want to use Safari or WebKit for your daily browsing, the help can be found at MacThemes Forum. The Goggles plugin for SIMBL adds a new menu to Safari that allows you to use Google Bookmarks ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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It's now been about one year since the original iPhone came out, but it's the new version of the phone where things really start getting interesting. First of all, Microsoft has been pushing hard to make progress with Windows Mobile with help from HTC and ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Numerous different places have reported that Microsoft has struck a deal with HP to install Live as the default search engine for their consumer PC line. Also, as a side effect, Silverlight (and .Net) will make its way on these PCs. This seems to be a duplication of the strategy ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
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The New York Times writes about reaction on electronic books at BookExpo America. I've been using my Sony PRS-505 for a few months now and I can see why some publishers, and especially booksellers are getting worried. The value chain of book publishing is hopefully starting to change, ...
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