Category Archive for: ‘Featured’

The iPhone 3G Lives On!

Posted Jul 3 2010 by Oli in , , with 3 Comments

A few months ago I made a decision: Whatever new ‘iPhone’ Apple reveals at WWDC, I’m not interested. I don’t have any money, and I’m perfectly happy with my iPhone 3G. My intentions were good, but unfortunately I got sucked in by Apple’s Reality Distortion Field along with everyone else. At one point I actually found myself welling up at …

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iPhone 4.0: Why can’t we all just get along?

Posted Apr 21 2010 by Oli in , , with 2 Comments

There’s been a storm brewing between rivals Google, Adobe and Apple. Each day seems to bring news of some minor sparring between the software giants, but instead of looking on in mild amusement, I’ve started to realise how their actions are affecting the future of smartphone development. The news that made me sit up and take note came only a …

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7 Days with Windows 7: Part 1

Posted Oct 11 2009 by Oli in , , with 8 Comments

OK, jokes aside, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 this week. I was keen to see if it lived up to the hype, and wanted to see for myself whether this really was Windows “Vista Redux”. I was an early adopter of Windows Vista, and to be honest I’ve been reasonably happy with it. …

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Setting Sail Across the C

Posted Sep 2 2009 by Oli in , with 6 Comments

I’m a Microsoft developer. There, I said it. I’ve grown up in a world of BASIC, from the early days of QuickBASIC through to VB.NET today. It’s a fantastic, easy going world to live in – particularly since .NET – as everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is laid out for you. As a development environment, it’s so easy to get …

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