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iPad killer app: comics?
Posted on Friday, April 2, 2010 | 4 CommentsI've been scoffing at the iPad since its details were first announced: no Flash support; no multitasking; no third-party unapproved apps; why would I ever want one? Well, I think I've just found the answer in the Marvel Comics app. Quite frankly, it looks awesome. The ... -
Long Spike: The Newegg saga
Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | 1 CommentHere's a little article originally written for bit-tech but never published, regarding the interesting case of Newegg accidentally sending a selection of fake Intel i7 CPUs to its customers. Since this article was written, NewEgg has confessed that the CPUs in question were fakes, ... -
Long Spike: LG LED 3D TV
Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2010 | No CommentsAnother article saved from the bit-bin, this time about LG Electronics' latest LED-backlit 3D TV: LG Electronics has made good on its recent promises and announced the impending launch of its first LED-backlit 3D TV, the LX9500. Launching first in Korea - to be followed by ... -
Firefox issues on Ubuntu 10.04
Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 | 1 CommentHaving finished my articles this morning, I figured it was time for an apt-get dist-upgrade on the laptop to ensure I was running the latest versions of everything. A quick download and install later, and it was time to reboot. At which point Firefox broke ... -
The E-Paper Watch
Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2010 | No CommentsNeat-o watch manufacturer Tokyoflash has unveiled an awesome new concept watch which uses an e-ink screen to create a wraparound inverse display. As seen over on the company's blog, the e-Paper Timing watch uses a curved e-ink screen to "show the time digitally in the ... -
Long Spike: Larrabee canned
Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe second long-spike article that I've resurrected is regarding Intel's decision to downgrade its Larrabee platform release into a Software Development Kit, written back in December. If you've been awaiting the debut of Intel's Larrabee multi-core graphics processor with bated breath, there's been a ... -
Long Spike: AMD/Intel settlement
Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2010 | No CommentsI've been going through some of the older stuff I wrote for bit-tech, and came across a couple of articles that never made it. Rather than consign them to the digital dustbin, I figured - having already written them - I'd resurrect them here. The ... -
Gnome Power Management glitch
Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | 1 CommentI appear to have broken my netbook. Well, 'broken' might be a bit steep - it no longer responds to a lid close event with the nice, neat standby mode it once treated me to. Instead, it triggers the standby script and gets itself into ... -
Router fun and games
Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | No CommentsI came home tonight to find that my Internet connection had crapped out, but that's not what this post is about. This post is about how Billion - that is, the company rather than the oft-misused numerical value - software engineers are perhaps not ... -
Apostrophe’s in the wild: 6
Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2009 | No CommentsIt's not often that a mere sign - even one displaying a frankly staggering ineptitude with the English language - leaves me speechless, but this particular example of apostrophe abuse came close. Note the shotgun-like approach to grammar involved in this image, where every single ...