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Category Archives: Pointless Futurology
Daily Telegraph Photoshop Fake. Again.
Oh dear. Despite it being known last year that an iconic image of Iranian missiles rising from the desert had been Photoshopped to show more missiles than were actually there, they’ve repeated the photograph alongside a story today. Fail The … Continue reading
Will iPhone Apps replace the desktop… and the web?
I’m sure I’m late to this whole thing (I blog once a week – in my underpants – and I really don’t know shit about technology) but having just had Windows 7 installed, I’ve just noticed that the “desktop” metaphor suddenly feels incredibly dated and stale. Continue reading
Posted in Pointless Futurology, Technology
Tagged apps, design, interface design, iphone, programming, Social Media, web
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Broadband Tax. A predictable “no!” from me.
My boss blogged approvingly about the proposed broadband tax. Predictably (for those who know me) I think the idea sucks. Continue reading
Posted in Pointless Futurology, Politics, Rants
Tagged 3G, broadband, government, internet, Politics, technology
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Tumblr is better than Twitter. Fact.
I’ve been giving Twitter a hard time for ages now. It’s well documented that it is insecure (and I know for a fact that problems that got massive coverage a couple of weeks ago are still going strong) and for me it has no features to speak of… only limitations. Continue reading
Shock news just in: Google.co.uk is a bit shit
Yeah I know – like the world needs another ‘Google are bastards’ post, but I think Google is biting off more than it can chew. Continue reading
The Times goes all Web 2.0 and shit
Noticed this little, Digg-style feature on The Times website this morning. Continue reading