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ALT.Lion

August 8, 2011 by james hamilton

Just a short one, but it seems that since Lion came out, the one key difference is literally, the key to everything is ALT…

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too many things, which one wins

April 20, 2011 by james hamilton

So after going to the London Facebook Developer Garage tonight, I was happily surprised that it was more useful than the month before. I don’t really know the atmosphere there fully yet, but it’s good to be a regular for a bit, become a familiar face and part of the community. I somehow got speaking [...]

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stop that phishing – Apple/Adobe scam

January 27, 2011 by james hamilton

Would it be possible to keep track of phishing with a set of twitter searches, analyse the tweets with the word phishing etc. in and issue some form of early warning system?

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back to the Windows.. 7

January 24, 2011 by james hamilton

I’m not writing this as a review as such, just a little bit on my recent experience, but making a ‘switch’ back to windows, even if it’s literally an Alt+Tab away from my OSX, has been a bit of a confusion.

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the new droid snore..

January 24, 2011 by james hamilton

Did I get bored of technology or did my iPhone 4 just make me completely apathetic to new releases of phones? I have to wonder about the tech news that announces endless phones and tablets, that possibly Apple isn’t actually for the device snobs, but for the people without the attention span to figure out which of the competition is actually good!

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google voucher groupon something

January 22, 2011 by james hamilton

After the failing of the Google/Groupon $6BN offer, Google have announced that they have been setting up their own. It sounds like you would expect if not better.. instead of having actual people making offers with merchants, they’re probably looking to automate the process and just throw servers at it. You’d sign up online, submit the offer you’re willing to give to your potential customers, and let the computers do the rest.

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banner sizes and why?

January 4, 2011 by james hamilton

I know why there are standard sizes for advertising banners on websites, but the why for the specific sizes is less clear. For example, what is the deal with the 728x90px leaderboard.. I might be living in a bubble but there’s nowhere on my site that is 728 pixels wide.

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digital magazines on iPad and the price of digital media

July 13, 2010 by anon

I was just flicking through Apple’s app store checking out reviews on magazine apps because I have clients who are interested in this sort of thing.. who isn’t these days. Wired magazine went from the reason to get an iPad to something to avoid..

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Making use of this, describing my bookmarks

May 14, 2010 by chippie

The plan is to link to sites and describe things more than write large amounts of stuff myself, although who knows how it will pan out. I already have a contributor lined up who I’ve worked with and known for almost 20 years, so lets see how we get on.

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An Apple app store workaround?! Sell your source code?

April 5, 2010 by chippie

if Apple doesn’t allow complete programmer control over what gets sold at the app store (read as app approval), what are the options to sell or open source the xcode projects that end users can build themselves?

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