There are a number of potential topics for blog posts swirling in my brain which I’m not going to have time to write. I shall therefor attempt to address each on in paragraph form (Twitter style is a little too brief for me). We were at Maelstrom this weekend. We splashed out for a van [...]
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New Phone
One of the advantages of the current bread of smart phones is they are field upgradable. As so much of their functionality is basically software it makes no sense to treat the phone as a static product once it leaves the factory gates. Coupled with the rapid development of the Android OS means that updating [...]
App Review: Smart Alarm Clock
One of the reasons to own a smart phone is to run applications on it. There are some fantastic ideas out there and given the relative youth of the mobile app explosion I’m sure there is plenty more to come. Today I thought I would offer my thoughts on Smart Alarm Clock. The concept is [...]
Free Software legal battles version 2
“We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” – Steve Jobs, Apple With the embers of the SCO’s legal shenanigans slowly dieing down we were long overdue for the next round of legal attacks on Free Software. We all knew it was coming, having failed with spurious copyright claims the next tool the enemies [...]
Post Travel Slump
I got back from my Hungarian adventures at a slightly more reasonable time than Wednesday mornings departure. Never the less I find travel still zaps the energy out of me. On Friday night I managed to eat dinner before crawling upstairs and passing out. Saturday has been ably documented elsewhere and basically involved a large [...]
Finding Open Source Android applications
I love my HTC Hero and growing number of applications that are available for it. However the marketplace really doesn’t make cleat the difference between free (as in beer) and free (as in freedom). For all sorts of reasons I’d like to be sure the code running on my new favourite device is Open Source. [...]