Articles from October, 2009
Is the Magic Mouse the Ultimate Mouse?
Today I got the chance to have a play with the new Apple Magic Mouse. Released earlier this week as part of the Apple hardware refresh, the Magic Mouse introduces gesture technology to the mouse, which was previously only found on the MacBook and iPhone.
So what does this mean for the user?
First impressions are the lack of buttons. While it’s predecessor, the Mighty Mouse, didn’t have visible left and right mouse buttons, there was the tiny scroll ball built into the top casing and the pinch buttons on the…
ExpressionEngine 2.0 Release Announced
Yesterday at the first day of The EECI 2009 conference in The Netherlands, Ellislab’s finally announced the launch date of the long awaited ExpressionEngine 2.0. It will be released on December 1st 2009, an early Christmas present anybody?
Code named “ExpressionEngine 2.0 Kaylee” will in development, this new version is a major step forward for the popular CMS, pushing it beyond its blogging roots and stamping its mark as full on content management system.
Perhaps the most interesting and eagerly awaited feature is its full integration with Ellislab’s other product
Google Wave More of a Ripple
I was fortunate enough to receive a Google Wave invitation over the weekend. Having watched the promotional videos and listened to the buzz in the blogs and on twitter, I was keen to have a look and see if it stood up to all the hype.
So it was with some excitement that I logged in for the first time yesterday. Initial impressions? Well to be honest I have to say I was a little disappointed.
Google Wave is badged as the future of on-line communication and collaboration, combining email,…
Apple Autumn Announcements
Today has been a good day for Apple. They started by reporting their most profitable quarter ever, with revenues of nearly $10 billion yielding a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. Even in this day and age with banks being bailed out across the planet, these are mind blowing numbers.
Where has this dramatic increase come from? Well the iphone sales go from strength to strength which are obviously part of it. However it would appear that Mac sales have also seen a year on year increase and…
Is Tweetie v2 the Ultimate iPhone Twitter Client?
I’m a self confessed Twitter addict and have tried all the major Twitter clients on the iPhone.
Like most people I started out with Twitterriffic but soon moved onto Twitterfon (recently renamed EchoFon) where I stayed for quite a while. I was eventually attracted to the simplicity of the user interface of Birdfeed but as my use of Twitter grew I needed more power and so migrated onto applications such as Tweetdeck, Simplytweet and finally Twittelator.
Along the way I tried and discarded many others…
ExpressionEngine Podcast
A new podcast has arrived on the scene, focussing on the ExpressionEngine content management system and hosted by Dan Benjamin and Ryan Irelan.
The aim of The ExpressionEngine Podcast is to cover the latest EE news, development, and community. Both hosts have lots of commercial ExpressionEngine experience between them, here in their own words is what they cover in episode one:
In this episode, Dan and Ryan discuss the EE beta 2 phase, some new addons from Solspace, and offer some tech tips. We also go…
Spy on your Boss using Twitter
At last a good reason to encourage your manager to make use of Twitter!
This Dilbert cartoon has been doing the rounds on the blogs and by email over the last couple of days and I couldn’t resist publishing a copy myself. As a self confessed twitter addict, I’m sure my old team found twitter equally useful for tracking my whereabouts in the country or even the office.
Catch up with all the latest from Dilbert & Friends at the official Dilbert website or on Twitter
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New Blog or Just a New Look?
After over a year of languishing on my to-do list, I have finally pulled my finger out and got my new blog off the ground and here it is!
I’ve actually had a blog for nearly five years and despite Lea and I using it quite extensively when we were on our career break, it has since sat forgotten and unloved on the Internet, with very occasional random posts from conferences, supplemented by regular automated posts of weekly twitter updates and delicious bookmarks.
I’ve flitted from…
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