Archive for the 'tech' Category

This is why you should be getting a new iPhone…
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Apparently, according to this interesting piece of research, iPhone users are younger, richer and more productive than their counterparts. Who wouldn’t want to be so cool?!

Honda’s Not-So-Mean Green Machine
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Jeremy Clarkson writes this hilarious piece on this experience with the new Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid. “So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more. [...]

New tech adventure
Monday, March 9th, 2009

After being Microsoft Exchange users for some time now, we have begun a new tech adventure by shifting to the far more economical Gmail offering from Google by having our domain hosted through them. It’s kind of funny, really. We’ve been thinking about the possibility of cutting back our IT costs by exploring options like [...]

Obama’s Inauguration on Speed
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Apple has this wonderfully interesting “Summary” utility service that allows you to obtain a summary of large chunks of text. The algorithm used is complex and it always intrigues me that somewhere in Cupertino there is a person/s playing around with this sort of stuff. I decided to run the tool over Obama’s recent inauguration [...]

Facebook habits
Sunday, March 1st, 2009

I was chatting to someone the other day about Facebook and the amount of time it takes to keep current with updates, etc., and it occurred to me as I was talking to them that my habits may not reflect those of others. Facebook takes very little of my time, but there is a huge [...]

design = mathematical transformations
Monday, February 23rd, 2009

This guy sounds a bit “different”, but he’s come up with a mathematical explanation for satisfying design, and that makes him “interesting” to me…

Twitter, Australian-style
Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Kind of funny, after a previous post of mine wondering about why Twitter hasn’t really caught on here in Australia, to find a news piece talking about how Twitter is taking off in a hurry down under, albeit in a slightly oddball Australian way. Typical…

iPhone Battery Drain Issue – a Solution!
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I love my iPhone, but there are a couple of things that I’m looking forward to them fixing along the way. One of those things is the power management. I am a fairly heavy user of my phone, so I sort of expect it to get through the battery a bit, but the iPhone seems [...]

Twitter vs. Facebook
Friday, January 30th, 2009

I’m currently faced with a small dilemma… I have been a longtime Twitter user, which is a pretty one-dimensional and simple networking tool, but in recent times far more people in my more immediate zone of relationships are all over Facebook. Preaching a sermon series called “Beyond Facebook” may not have helped in this regard. [...]

Life without email
Monday, January 12th, 2009

Is it possible? As someone who is vitally interested in all things communication oriented, especially regarding technology, I found this piece on IBM dude Luis Suarez very interesting, but also perhaps a little perplexing. He has, apparently, shifted away from email as much as possible and focused most of his communication with colleagues to IM, [...]