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  • Summing Up Why Phones Suck

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    If anyone has been looking for the reason most mobile phones have poor user experiences, this article might enlighten you.  To quote: -
    The panel, whose title was It’s the User Experience, Stupid agreed that iPhone represents a model for mobile operators to follow, but they reached little agreement on how to follow.
    The discussion that [...]

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  • If You Didn’t See This Coming, You’re a Civil Servant…

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    It’s Tax Return time. And, as if like clockwork, the HMRC website has gone down. But how can this continue to happen?

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  • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Software Updates

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    Software updates are unique. They keep your products up to date and often provide new features for free. Something that doesn’t happen with any other products. But it’s not always that simple, and software updates often bring problems of their own.

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  • Finally, Google Takes a Valid and Worthwhile Step

    Posted by Simon with 3 Responses

    I’ve written previously about Google reducing the PageRank of sites that sell links, but it seems as if they’ve gotten round to another much maligned aspect of blogging, Pay Per Post.  Personally, I don’t like Pay Per Post.  While I accept that some blogs make alot of money from it (see the image below), and [...]

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  • R.I.P Windows Mobile

    Posted by Simon with One Response

    Today is the beginning of the end for Windows Mobile. The software found on phones and portable devices, loved by some, loathed by many, is staring down the end of a long barrel. Why? Well, like other technology markets, Google has jumped in and caused a huge splash. Today, Android was [...]

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  • 2 OSX Accessibility Tools Everyone Can Use

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    Mac OSX has some fantastic accessibility features built in, from high contrast and large type to keyboard mousing. There are, however, some fantastically inventive features available that all users can take advantage of. The key to really getting the most out of these features is to tailor them to your needs. Sometimes [...]

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  • 2 FireFox URL Tricks

    Posted by Simon with One Response

    FireFox is a powerfull tool. With the amount of extensions available for it, you can tailor it for almost any need. There are, however, some fantastic pieces of functionality built right into FireFox that can be hugely beneficial, even if they need a bit of setting up first. In this post I’ll [...]

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  • Cleanse your Subscriptions with Google Reader

    Posted by Simon with One Response

    As a user of “the internet”, I’d be willing to guess you are currently subscribed to quite a few RSS Feeds. Feeds are a great way to ensure you stay in touch with your favourite sites and saves you the hassle of going round to each site every day to see if something new [...]

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    This post was written on September 13, 2007 (last modified on September 13, 2007) by Simon and posted in Apple, Technology.

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