Sep 19, 2010
A new version of the OS X virtualisation software, Parallels 6, was announced this week. Parallels allows you to run your Windows applications on your Mac, and it does so in a very elegant manner, providing you with some sparking performance. We’re currently evaluating how well it works, and should be able to give you our report in a week or two.
Sep 19, 2010
The next version of Microsoft’s internet browser, Internet Explorer 9, was released to the public as a beta this week. Supposed to be faster, more secure, less resource intensive, and much more user friendly, it does not support XP, and that could be a double edged sword. On the one hand, Windows 7 has been well accepted in the market place, and this...
Sep 19, 2010
Android devices are big news. So too are tablets: a Week or two we heard – officially – about the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and that should be hitting the streets pretty soon. And this week we saw Viewsonic announce their new tablet. With a ten inch form factor plus NVidia’s Tegra 2 chip, this US$430 tablet will be running Android 2.2. With its...
Sep 19, 2010
One of the latest crazes doing the rounds is that of group buying. The way it works is that some intermediary, typically some sort of website or service, organises a discount deal with a supplier of products – maybe a restaurant meal or some other goods – and in theory, the consumers visit the intermediary’s website and buy the product/deal...
Sep 12, 2010
The video must get through. In Britain, the Royal Male Mail has come up with a novel idea relating to those miniature works of art, postage stamps. By the inclusion of a special code on the stamp, a user can scan the stamp using their Android or iOS powered phone, using the augmented reality app ‘Junaio’. This will then cause a short film of actor...
Sep 12, 2010
No gadgets! Hands up if you’ve ever been distracted from what you’re supposed to be doing, in order to check your phone for a message that hasn’t come, or because you were just bored, or anxious, or ….. A group calling itself “Offlining” is proposing a “A time for all to atone for tech sins”, wherein we are all...