Monthly Archive for October, 2009

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T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick data


Microsoft/Danger teaching us why cloud backup >> cloud storage. Good job, guys.

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Welsh yobs clobbered by cross-dressing cage fighters

Unwise yahoos mistake stag do revellers for transvestites

Two Swansea yobs who decided, after a night on the sauce, that they’d give a couple of transvestites some stick, came off the worse for the encounter since their targets were in fact cage fighters on a stag night.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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At-a-glance: Tory conference


Spot the (deliberate?) mistake~

(It was a good conference for the Tories, I suppose)

An at-a-glance guide to the big news stories, lighter moments and the key analysis from Labour’s 2009 conference.
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Mac 101: Forward delete on a Mac laptop


I… I didn’t actually know that.

It is odd that the functions elicited by the “fn” key aren’t labelled anywhere on these keyboards… I imagine such extra text was deemed clutter.

What else might my fn key be able to do?

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The System Works

I bought music this morning because a strain of it was used on a podcast I happened to be listening to. At £1.79 for a three-song EP it was actually simpler to just click “buy” than to pirate it, especially if I wanted to listen to it in the car to work… which I actually didn’t bother doing in the end, because I wanted to finish the podcast.

So yeah, a snatch of music for free on a free podcast actually made a band a few pennies.

>> Spoon’s Got Nuffin (link opens iTunes)

>> iFanboy’s pick of the week podcast (link opens comic-book website)

ASUS ships $100 O!Play HDP-R1 HD media streamer


I suspect Jack needs one? I kind of want one…

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