#“Today I "Attic-ed" Some Of My Favourite Old Tech” I did a big clean out of one of our big cubby holes upstairs that held a lot of my old tech from the past few years. Anything that was already of no practical use had been moved to the attic when we originally moved to Cork back in 2004. This stuff was in the "well you never know, I _might_ need it some day" »
#“Android Running Perfectly on an EeePC Netbook. Totally Mad.” This just totally blew me away. I grabbed the ISO of Android X86, "burned" it onto USB stick, booted it on an ancient 700Mhz EeepC 701 Surf and 5 minutes after the initial download, it was running. Almost flawlessly. Only issues I've run into so far are Wifi giving a bit of grief (LAN fine) and some text entry playing silly buggers. »
#“Google Takeout - Why You Can Still Love A Multi-$Bn Corporation” via youtube.com https://www.google.com/takeout/ - Unlike G+ it works with Google Apps accounts. This kind of stuff is why they are still my fave company on the planet and why we root for them when they try car-crashes like Buzz, Wave, Latitude (and hopefully G+ won't end up in that list). »
#“Ah come onnnn Google, you gotta be kidding me. Google+ incompatible?” I honestly thought the Social Secret Weapon would be mobile-only. Instead it's, well I dunno, I haven't used it yet. I'm running Android 2.3.4, what the hell could be incompatible there? »
#“My First Encounter with Google+ - Not exactly what I had hoped for” I thought they'd sorted all this crap out with GApps accounts? »
#“Turntable.fm blocks access outside the US - Nooooooooooooooooo” Were very sorry, but while we would love to let you in and rock out with us, we need to currently restrict turntable access to only the United States due to licensing constraints. We are working very hard to try and and get you in as soon as possible. If you believe this is a mistake and you are located in the United States, please e-mail help [at sign] turntable dot fm »
Google has announced they are winding down Google Health. I'm terribly disappointed by this as I really thought they had something visionary there. I wrote this piece last year:Google Health + Android + CardioTrainer has me excitedCoincidentally, Erick Schonfeldover on TechCrunch,interviewedthe creator of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, a few weeks back. He said that the reason it never took off was that Google Health never asked, What could they do that people would want? »
#“IBM100 - Icons of Progress” These 100 iconic momentsthese Icons of Progressdemonstrate our faith in science, our pursuit of knowledge and our belief that together we can make the world work better. via ibm.com Happy Birthday Big Blue. »
#“I’ve never met an Engineer who could turn their hand to business” With that one line by Alan Sugar on last night's UK Apprentice, I finally realised why Amstrad was never able to grow beyond the odd burst of short term opportunism into a global company. I'd like to run a few numbers past Lord Sugar: Number of Amstrad Music Devices sold last year: 0 Number of Apple Music Devices sold last year: 84m Market share of phones with e-m@ailer technology: 0% Market share of phones with ARM technology: 98% globally Dell market cap: $30. »
#“Greatest Browser Extension Ever? Cloud Save.” Save files to the cloud. Supports Google Docs, Box.net, Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive, SugarSync, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Min.us, Twitpic and more. via chrome.google.com Right click to save anything on a webpage to Dropbox, Google Docs, Facebook etc etc etc. Where have you been all my life? »