This morning the Raspberry Pi launched and immediately the servers of it’s two partner companies crumbled under the load of interested paying customers trying to buy the device. Raspberry Pi themselves had adjusted their own site into a single static HTML page in anticipation of the load and say that they had warned their partners [...]
Over the last few weeks I have been building a project using the JQuery Mobile framework. Overall it’s been a hugely interesting experience and has exposed me to the subtle differences in developing mobile web apps as opposed to platform specific binaries (i’ve dabbled before but this has been my first commercial mobile web app). [...]
I heard an interesting anecdote this morning about Spotify and the multi grammy award winning singer Adele. It turns out that Adele’s album is not available on Spotify (noticed a while ago by my Wife) not because Adele didn’t want it to be but because of the Spotify freemium business model. Adele it seems was [...]
There’s a new to-do list in the iPhone store that’s creating quite a lot of chatter on the web. It’s called Clear and has been crafted by the small British development studio Realmac Software (i’m proud of any British software success). So what makes this to-do app different from all the other’s out there. Well [...]
Chief evangelist for Yahoo Christian Heilmann has written an interesting post on a topic that has been rattling around in my mind now for some time – why it is most of the people who build the web don’t make that much money from it and how it is that people who don’t understand the [...]
I have a confession to make. As a technologist, I hate digitised music and video. It has nothing to do with quality, not having the box etc – the usual arguments that are put forward for not using digital content. For me it’s the fear of loss of content through my own poor file management [...]
I downloaded the new (to the UK) Starbucks iPhone app yesterday and thought i’d write up a few thoughts. The app itself is fairly slick with the main feature being that you can reload your My Starbucks loyalty card (via your credit card) and pay for your coffee in-store. This is achieved by presenting the [...]