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Why Best in Class is Best

It always strikes me as odd that in the constant battle for online supremacy, the big companies like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL etc habitually make the mistake of over-diversification.

Samsung I8910HD Review

This week the people who do Samsung’s PR in the UK were kind enough to send me Samsung’s latest phone to test out! Despite having warned them that I’m an avid fan of Apple’s revolutionary handset and that I would be unlikely to warm to an iPhone wannabe they were keen for me to take a look, so I did.

Xbox Press Briefing – Galen Center, Los Angeles – 1st June 2008

We arrived at the Galen Center in Downtown L.A. having heard rumours of a big announcement from Microsoft on their beloved console. The various queues seemed to consist of media, bloggers, fans and some people who didn’t look nearly geeky enough. After joining the shortest queue we took our seats which faced an impressive stage of Xbox branding and mood lighting.

How To Remove Unwanted Features in Safari 4

Apple released a new version of ‘the fastest browser on earth’ the other day. If you haven’t already, you can check out the new features and download it here for Mac and PC. In typical Apple fashion the new features are a mixture of pointless aesthetic enhancements and genuine progress in usability. Unfortunately this update contains very few of the latter. The most tedious new feature for me is the placement of the tabs on top of the title bar, so that’s number 1 on the list. Conversely, I find their new url auto-complete really useful. Like Firefox it now searches titles of pages as well as the urls so makes visiting previously visited pages much easier. Below are some very simple instructions on how to turn off the various new features.

8 Great Twitter Tools You Need To Use NOW!

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the best thing about Twitter is how accessible the data that lies on the site is and how many enterprising developers have made use of it in some way.
Many of these sites present some fascinating but essentially useless data whilst some (the minority, it has to be said) are now firmly in my favourites as must-have tools. Check them out below to find out all sorts of stuff such as who your mutual followers are, what time of day you’re most likely to tweet at, how powerful a tweep you are and how you can send tweets when you’re fast asleep!

 

12 Free iPhone Apps I Can’t Live Without

The iPhone can do lots of cool stuff but the killer feature has to be the App Store, this essentially opens the platform up for anything (Apple approval allowing). The good news is that a lot of the best apps are free! Here are my 12 favourite apps on the house.

The World’s Reaction To England’s Snow

Last Monday I, like many Brits, had an unexpected day off work without sickness or emergency – a ’snow day’ – which I spent with my wife, working from home and trudging in beautiful fresh snow. The inclement weather dominated last week’s news headlines, largely because the snow fell in London, home of the country’s national press (other parts of the UK gets this kind of weather every year). What’s really interesting though is the reaction to the ‘chaos’ in the foreign press. Nick Squires of The Telegraph wrote a good article about the various reactions elsewhere in the world which includes a snippet from the Herald Tribune questioning the ability of a country that made it through the Blitz to deal with a few inches of snow. Canada’s Globe and Mail even quotes a London commuter comparing the capital to a third-world country. The fact of the matter is that it is not our inability to cope with snow that brought the country to a standstill. It is the English condition.

Twitter to Enter the Mainstream on January 23?

Well, quite possibly. Jonathan Ross returns to our screens on January 23 following a three-month ban for his part in the ‘Sachsgate’ madness (for those of you who aren’t British or have no access to the media other than my blog, in October Jonathan was a guest on Russell Brand’s BBC radio show. They telephoned no-show guest Andrew Sachs – an actor who played a bumbling Spanish racial stereotype in a classic 70’s British sitcom with John Cleese – and reached the actor’s voicemail. Jonathan blurted out “he fucked your granddaughter” during the series of messages the duo left – referring to Russell’s fling with Sachs’ offspring’s offspring who can currently be seen touring Eastern Europe in her burlesque troupe ‘Satanic Sluts’ (yes, really). Two complaints were filed against the late-night show but only when, eight days later, a conservative newspaper picked up on the ’scandal’ did 38,000 horrified people then decide to bother to complain. The country briefly went into a state of panic – it was even discussed by our head of state in the House of Commons (again, yes, really) and a slew of suspensions and resignations (including Brand’s) followed. It seems surreal looking back. I expect to see this referred to in my children’s sociology text-books under “How People Know What To Be Offended By” or something…).

Not so modern art

Hi,

Blimey, I’ve been married for 14 months now… which is going fine thanks I likened it the other day to the difference between buying and renting, which says it all really…

So, with my lovely wife I went to the Tate Modern on Sunday. We walked over the Millennium Bridge on the way which was quite pretty, if a little chilly, and arrived to look at lots of nice manmade things.