Articles Archive for November 2009
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Living in Spain as a British Expat I am always keen to look at applications that make my limited use of the Spanish language better, so I was excited to take a look at Jibbigo which promised:
Your world just got smaller thanks to a speech-to-speech translation app for your iPhone.
Hmm what is the point of having a application launch on an iPhone with the message that this is the first time you have launched the application and suggesting you watch the introductory video which ……….. doesn’t work on the iPhone!
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Apple’s iPhone now accounts for 50 per cent of worldwide smartphone usage, according to a new report. But off in the distance, there’s an Android approaching.
The latest traffic figures (PDF) from AdMob – the mobile ad-servicing shop recently acquired by Google – are less kind to Symbian and Palm. According to the report, Symbian’s market share is nose-diving, and after a recent flirtation with growth, Palm’s share is down as well.
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DEVONtechnologies, LLC has announced their Black Friday deals – offers 25 percent discount on all new purchases of its software products on Black Friday, November 27, 2009.
Eric Bohnisch-Volkmann, President of DEVONtechnologies: “Black Friday is the one-day shopping event for the Mac community. And so, following an old tradition in the USA, we’re offering our well-known applications DEVONthink, DEVONagent, DEVONnote, and the Infoworker’s bundles (consisting of DEVONthink Pro or Pro Office and DEVONagent) with 25 percent discount on this year’s Black Friday. If you’re thinking about going paperless, Friday is the day!”
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As inevitable as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West, an innocuous iPhone worm has been transformed into a malicious bank details-stealing virus.
The second recorded iPhone infection operates on exactly the same principles as the first, as it targets jailbroken handsets with SSH installed, but this time adds the ability for the hacker to remotely control and access the phone. By throwing up a purported ING Direct login page, he (or she, or they) can collect your online banking credentials and, presumably, all the cash they are supposed to protect.
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Possibly my favourite so far! Clever (but warped) back story of a prank gone wrong. Great characters, including the continuation of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s life. It is possibly the only book that actually made me gasp out loud at one totally unexpected plot twist, very unexpected indeed. Still a great read …. as ever couldn’t put it down and finished it in about two days! I must confess that I do like the use of ‘copy n paste’ that he uses from one book to another ….. gives a nice sense of continuity. If you don’t know what I mean read a few and you soon will!
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Really enjoyed this book. Great (but sick) back story of snuff movies . Great characters, including the continuation of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s life. I don’t think I have any criticism of this book. Kept me guessing right to the end, realy well written and the plot had more twists and turns that a downhill slalom course. Couldn’t put it down! Still a great read …. as ever couldn’t put it down and finished it in about two days! I must confess that I do like the use of ‘copy n paste’ that he uses from one book to another ….. gives a nice sense of continuity. If you don’t know what I mean read a few and you soon will!
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Really enjoyed this book. Great (but tragic) back story of 9/11. Great characters, including the continuation of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s life. If I had any criticism it was that compared to other books by Peter James it became too obvious what the twist was going to be a little early compared to other books. Still a great read …. as ever couldn’t put it down and finished it in about two days! I must confess that I do like the use of ‘copy n paste’ that he uses from one book to another ….. gives a nice sense of continuity. If you don’t know what I mean read a few and you soon will!
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Personal and corporate accounts will remain free, but businesses will have the option of signing up to a paid account, which will offer a “special layer of access”, including feedback and statistics. Many big name brands and companies have embraced Twitter as a way of communicating directly with consumers and engaging with customers.
“This takes advantage of some of the commercial use of Twitter we’ve seen from businesses like airlines and big box stores,” said Stone. “We want to present to them a layer of features that allows them to become better at Twitter, show them some of the analytics.”
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Apparent Software today announces a special offer for MacGraPhoto bundle in which 21 buyers until November 24, 8am GMT will receive one of three gifts: his money back, free HoudahSpot license or free upgrade to ImageFramer 3.
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Unlike many of the recent Mac Bundles, the MacGraPhoto bundle focuses on one subject, and one subject only – graphics. So, while a mixed variety of applications can be fun, and many useful, the MacGraPhoto bundle provides a hand picked selection of seven premium applications, many with the Apple “Staff Pick” or Apple Design Award, that will satisfy most of your imaging needs: image editing, applying effects, format conversion, batch processing, vector drawing, geo-locating your photos, framing them or even creating posters and postcards and much more.
Lifestyle »
As you would expect from someone that owns a Toyota Prius Hybrid I tend to try and protect the environment when I can. I am not a saint, and I am not obsessed by recycling, but there are certain common sense actions that can be taken, and when possible I try and take them.
A while back I wrote about how to recycle your Mac involving www.buymytronics.com.
I was looking through some stuff the other day and ended up on their site. Wow it has changed a lot, and in a pretty good way!
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Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, said an unnamed mobile phone company contacted his office to warn him about the leak.
