It’s been a great year for tech and I’ve boiled it all down to my top10 wishes for the new year.
My Top10 Tech Wish-list:
1. Iphone 3g 16GB
Price: $299.99
2. DELL ULTRASHARP 3008WFP 30-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
Price: $1999.00
3. i-rocks USB Hub
Price: $10.99
4. EOS Rebel XS 18-55IS Kit
Price: $599.99
5. VIXIA HF11
Price: $1199.00
6. Sony Bravia KDL-46W4100
Price: $1999.99
7. Bose QuietComfort® 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® headphones
Price: $299.00
8. Bose Acoustimass® 16 speaker system
Price: $1299.00
9. Vodoo Omen
Price: estimated to be up to $20000.00
10. Macmini 2GHz, 120GB HDD
Price: $799.00
Total cost of my fantasies?
Approx. $30505.95
Maybe I’ll wait until …
After reading the countless posts on Macrumors and other sites regarding the statement Jobs made about not working on a touchscreen Mac, I was inspired to write. No, I’m not writing a plea to Steve, begging him to begin development on a touchscreen Mac. I’m not going to be one of those guys. What I’m here to say is that I wonder why there is so much hype and so much Apple bashing because of touchscreens. This innovation shouldn’t be tearing Apple apart! We should embrace it, cherish it, …
A question that has always haunted me, ever since founding my first blog, or even written my first article, has been a simple grammatical error seen all over the internet.
Is it bare in mind, or bear in mind?
The answer, before I hold it back any longer, is "bear in mind." The reason behind this is bear, in the sense of holding, rather than the sense of grizzly bear. A common misconception is that bare means to hold, as well as the correct meaning, nude.
Well that’s my nugget of wisdom for …
I know hundreds of keen Twitter users. We’ve been there since the start, and loved it all the way. However, it seems that now the huge media boom surrounding it, and other social networking systems, it’s struggling to keep up. Constantly being bombarded with excuses, errors and more does not help its user-count.
It’s a classic case of the developers doing the business-man’s job. Having received over $80 million in funding, and still unable to afford scalable servers is quite frankly a scare.
Twitter’s always been built on Ruby, from the …
I would first like to start off by insulting BT, but I won’t despite the poor connection and general service, as in the end, they’re alright to most other customers I know. Then I want to introduce Sky Broadband. These guys are great. Built from the (as you can see below) Easynet infrastructure, they provide tonnes of bandwidth, on an incredibly fast connection.
7148kb/s is pretty impressive considering I am 50 miles from the exchange on a 8Mb/s connection. Technically speaking, they’re doing the impossible! I realised you probably wouldn’t enjoy …