Mozilla’s announcement last week that they are mothballing their Metro-specific version of Firefox for Windows 8 is pretty much a non-event in my mind. Although people will try to read into it all kinds of things (just take a look at the comments), surely it’s just an example of good resource allocation based on data. The data said this particular implementation wasn’t being...
Reading this interview by Business Insider with David Shing was really good – sounds like he’s a super nice guy. And so underserving of the hurtful outpouring from so many back in February (here’s a taste). In his case he’s taken it all in his stride, and hopefully will actually benefit from it (in terms of exposure, which then turns positive). I’ve never really...
Hopefully you’ve already seen this wonderful interview with Bill Gates in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. If not, then it’s well worth a read. Top marks to the interviewer – a great bunch of questions (and so much better than the cringe-worthy questions Bill’s had to endure in the past). As always Bill is such a clear and useful thinker who answers so eloquently...
An interesting comment by Chris Evans, a Google security engineer for the Chrome browser, at the recent Pwnium 4 security competition in Canada. Commenting on their approach to security: “Bad guys are fundamentally lazy, like the rest of us. They’re looking for the highest return with the least amount of effort.” “They want the weakest link, and we will never have...
Good to hear that Microsoft is supposably releasing an updated version of Office for Mac later this year. When I switched to Mac a little over a year ago, I thought I’d spend most of my time running Windows (eg on Parallels), but I actually found myself surprisingly content with the Mac OS. Pretty much everything I do now runs in the browser, with the exception of a few programs: Word and...
The extremes of the web are present in two related articles this week. First let’s hear from Tim Berners-Lee, commenting 25 years after his first proposal for the web (as we know it today) was written: “Unless we have an open, neutral internet we can rely on without worrying about what’s happening at the back door, we can’t have open government, good democracy, good...
Here’s a quick game to play – try to find anyone saying anything positive about Newsweek at the moment. Their recent ‘scoop‘ got tons of coverage, but it turned negative pretty quickly. Check out the comments on their own followup statement about the story. It’s almost as if they’re encouraging the negativity by putting in closing statements like this:...
This could be handy if you like to use images on your site and in blog posts etc. Getty has announced that many (approx 35 Million) of their images can be used for free on sites, as long as they are embedded using the Getty embed code (it’s an iFrame basically, but includes Getty branding and other guff). Look for the embed button on images (if there’s no embed button, then you...
This is a post purely for me to come back and review in the future for interest. I thought I’d start recording my phone app choices because it would be interesting to see how they change over time. Here’s my current two screens of app: Â The Home screen is the stuff I use the most, and the second screen is stuff that I don’t use as much or are playing with (eg I’ve only...
Sometimes it’s good to record the date when you finally enable something that everyone else worked out years ago. It’s good because there’s always that little reminder to yourself that no matter how behind the times others are (close family are usually in this bracket), chances are you’ve had moments like that too. I’ve had plenty of them. Today’s was finally...