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Should Amazon Fear the iPad?

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Technology commentators have noted that Amazon is trying to improve the Kindle browser experience. With the iPad only weeks away, I don’t blame them for trying to play catch up. However, I do wonder if this is really going to be a net win for end users?
Wired Magazine’s Michael Calore has described the Kindle’s browser [...]

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Just In Case Computing - iPad vs HackBooks

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Everyone is talking about the iPad. I reckon all we’re going to hear for a while will be “iPad iPad iPad!”
Having read countless comments about the new iPad having “no SD card slot” and it being made only for fanbois, I found myself considering the question:
Is the iPad better than a Netbook?
Many early [...]

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Sphinx Search in Japanese

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

About 4 months ago I was wondering how hard it would be to get Sphinx to work in Japanese. This fantastic freetext search engine by Andrew Aksyonoff has literally changed my approach to web development.
At the time there were instructions for Chinese, but no Japanese unicode character map. Basically, Sphinx needs a “guide” to read [...]

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Mashables has released a custom iPhone App to view their posts, tweets and events on the go. Despite the title of this post, overall it is a great little app, and potentially much better than browsing through the normal browser. Unfortunately it is still in need of some “polish” to make it really sparkle!

PROS:
The RSS [...]

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iPhone Designers Don’t Ride Subways!

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Having used the iPhone 3G since August 2008, I am definitely a fan (fanboy?) I am currently addicted to Tap Tap Revenge 2, and I probably spend most of my traveling time glued to mobile Safari. However, since the iPhone 2.0 upgrade, I have noticed that only people who don’t ride subways could possibly have [...]

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