Google as a photographer’s assistant

Trey Ratcliff, the photographer who’s done more than any other to popularise HDR (or, more accurately tone mapped) photos, put up an interesting post regarding what Google will do for photographers: So, along comes this exciting new announcement from Google – that they are using their massive server farms to intelligently organize and post-process photos […]

Land of the free

Autoblog: North Carolina is the latest state to line up against Tesla Motors by proposing a bill that would bar direct automaker-to-customer sales within the state According to Slate, a bill pushed by the state’s Senate Commerce Committee – and backed, of course, by the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association (NCADA) – would not only […]

Selling everything, everywhere, to anyone

From The Inquirer because the Sunday Times’ business model doesn’t want links: According to the Sunday Times’ front page story, Ipsos Mori has been shopping the records around and bragging that the data can be used to track people and their location in real time to within 100 metres. The data is coming from Everything […]

Pathetic

Microsoft enlisted former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Rob Schneider and disgraced baseball star Pete Rose to denigrate Google Docs in two new videos that posted to the Web Friday. via Pete Rose, Rob Schneider mock Google for Microsoft Office | Microsoft – CNET News. Watch the videos, and try not to cringe.  Then shower […]

Adobe & the Creative Business Model

There’s been a boring amount written about Adobe’s move to the cloud this week, but there are two aspects I think could do with a little more focus. The first is piracy.  TechCrunch had a very brief mention of it in their interview with Adobe’s David Wadhwani: One aspect of Creative Cloud that Adobe hasn’t […]

Google Now coming to Chrome on OSX

The Next Web: Over the last few months, the Chrome OS notification center was ported to Chromium and then to Chrome Canary, but the feature was limited to just Windows. Now it looks like the first attempts to do the same for OS X, at least in Chromium, have surfaced, paving the way for Google […]

Bill Gates has lost the plot

Bill Gates On The iPad via Business Insider: He then said of people using iPad-like devices, “A lot of those users are frustrated, they can’t type, they can’t create documents, they don’t have Office there.” I think this is a clear indication of how out of touch and isolated from the real world Microsoft can […]

Acer: Cornering the market in crap

The Verge covered the recent Acer touch event, and put together a nice little video I’ve embedded below.  Is there anything in this video that doesn’t look like utter crap? The R7 has the weirdest design, and not in a good way.  Will it ever be possible to use the trackpad without either cramping your […]

Backwards land

Who would have predicted this a few years ago?  It’s a Windows 8 advert which uses the fact it can play a year old iPhone game as the major selling point.  And this ad has been airing, a lot. The world may be going mad.  If this were a Windows Phone advert, I’d kind of […]

Delivering Government services

I’ve been really enjoying the Government Digital Service blog.  It represents a transparency that I’m not used to from governmental organisations.  It’s not only that, they’re doing some genuinely interesting things. As a huge proponent of agile software development, it’s interesting to see its principles applied to the lumbering juggernaut that is the UK government. […]