Archive for the ‘Technology.’ Category

‘Defective by Design.’

The Free Software Foundation, as part of their Defective by Design anti-DRM campaign, have undertaken something of a festive approach to their latest efforts: they are in the process of producing a ‘35 Days against DRM’ series of articles, no doubt a nod to the ubiquitously understood ‘12 Days of Christmas’. Whilst noble in and [...]

I Could Have Done with this About Five Months Ago.

Google, you are king.
Seriously, this is why I love the long lease given to Google developers: things that you’d never usually think of integrating come through.

If I wasn’t scared about the LHC before…

It worries me that this was sponsored by the organisation which is going to do something which may (though probably will not) bring the end of man in an orgy of strangelets and mini-black holes.

Apple iPod Video (60GB) vs. Creative Zen Micro (6GB) vs. Creative Zen Touch (20GB)

So yes: my iPod arrived; and no: I’m not disappointed with it. I love it, I really do: it allows me to listen to all of my music one one device, something that the other two never could. Being honest, that was the only reason for the change. In the past, I had always spouted [...]

CheapVPS Review

I am always looking for a better deal, more features, whatever: my most succinct abbreviation would probably be the age-old statement of a desire of ‘more-for-less’. Free-market competition does have it perks, it would seem: I have changed hosts often just for the thought of a more beneficial business arrangement. I’ve been with (for A [...]

Why the Last.fm Redesign is a Success.

It seems that, on the whole, the userbase of Last.fm has taken a strong distaste to the redesign of the Web 2.0 music giant’s redesign of the site. Based on past records of website redesigns (see: MySpace, Facebook etc) this shouldn’t really come as a surprise, but this noise usually dies down after a few [...]

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