The more I use it, the more conflicted I am about the iPad. It’s bright and renders images beautifully. I love the way designers are now taking this big screen into account when they produce apps like Pulse news reader and FryPaper. It’s really fun for showing photos to people. But—and there are so very… Read More
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Friday, December 24th, 2010 Tags: Apple Inc., iPad, IPhone, tablet computer
Category: Digital, Featured, Perspective, review 3 Comments 
When Lucas joined our household, I knew he’d make a great working dog. His sire was a steady, dependable sort who is used for picking up, and Lucas took immediately to retrieving. Not only do I like the idea of having him with me in the field, but I can also see just how much dogs seem… Read More
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Tags: designer, Dog, energy, gundog, hard rubber, innovation, product, Shooting Times, The Working Dog Company Ltd, training, training dummy, working dog, Working Dog Company
Category: Like, Perspective, Pup, review 1Comment
Fool’s Gold As a child in Colorado, I have a distant memory of finding a nugget of pure gold, bigger than the tip of my thumb. I instantly became the richest kid in America! I thought I could buy a husky (with a sled) and a Tama Starclassic Birch studio set with a full range… Read More
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Tags: America, Birch studio, coffee, Colorado, disappointment, GBP, hot beverage, microwave, Miele, nespresso, stainless-steel finish, steel, Tama Starclassic, USD
Category: Coffee, Perspective, review 1Comment
Reviews of new Windows releases always seem to say the same thing, depending on what kind of person writes them. Mac enthusiasts say it’s yet again stolen more MacOS features. Microsofties defend the new-found stability and the speed compared to last editions. Non-techies say how pretty this one is in comparison with the last, et… Read More
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Tags: anti-malware software, Bluetooth, Browsing, Google, home network, Homegroup, Internet Options, Mac, MacOS, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, operating system, OSX, Private, Task Bar, Windows 7, Windows Live Writer, wireless network
Category: Digital, Perspective, review 14 Comments
So, the web is full of interesting stuff, right? Gadgets, people, blogs, books, tips, wine—all good things. At least, the web is full of interesting pages about these things. In a single session, you might read a mate’s blog (maybe about wine), then browse a retail site for a book that that mate recommended and… Read More
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Tags: adaptiveblue, app, context, glue, Perspective, retail site, review, social network, social-networking space
Category: Digital, review 5 Comments
Sometimes I come across a site and have to wonder what the designers, consultants, marketers, management teams and everyone else involved were thinking when they signed off on the project. The sting is that much worse when it’s a re-design of a well-loved site. Well, the brains behind the new BBC iPlayer layout have failed,… Read More
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 Tags: actual player, BBC, broken, Digital, Owen Gibson, player, review, web interface
Category: Digital, review 22 Comments
Image via Wikipedia I’m trying out a Zemanta blog post. What it does, apparently, is to suggest ideas for the article you’re currently writing. It’s a semantic blog suggestion feature, and it’s manifested in this instance as a firefox plugin that adds a write widget to my WordPress WYSIWYG editor. IIt updates every 300 characters,… Read More
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Tags: blogging, curser, firefox, flickr, interface feature, Internet Genius, on-the-fly, online application, plugin, RDF
store, rdf, scribefire, semantic, semantic features, suggestion, widget, wysiwyg editor, Zemanta
Category: Digital, review 9 Comments
I read about sliderocket over on R/WW, and at ZDNet, today, and signed up for a Beta. While I’m waiting for them to send one out (I hope) I’d like to talk a little about why I love the idea of this product. Firstly, I was recently tasked with conducting a 40-minute presentation. This is… Read More
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Tags: Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, online application, powerpoint, presentation, presentation software, review, sliderocket, Web 2.0, web app, web-features, web-tools
Category: Digital, review No Comments
Are we, as a society or set of societies too quick to categorise? I think we have built upon the Victorian-era’s predilection for classification for understanding. You’ll notice, no doubt, that I categorised the idea of classification as Victorian. Perhaps this is a helpful metaphorical conduit for expressing a large number of semantic nuances–a sort… Read More
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Tags: Digital, ideas, nurse, practicing veterinary surgeon, semantic, veterinary surgeon
Category: review No Comments
Live Writer Right, so I’ve been blogging using Windows Live Writer for a few weeks, and have generally enjoyed it. It’s easier than logging into my CMS, and it integrates with the site theme, so what I see is actually what the post looks like. As you can see, it’s a pretty slick interface, and… Read More
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Tags: Aero, blog editor, blogging, desktop blogging, Digital, Google, HTML, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, review, using Windows Live Writer, web interface, Windows Live, YouTube
Category: Digital, review 5 Comments
