Oh, by the way...
...your "buy now from Amazon" link is broken. Possibly a temporal offset decouple. I'd try reversing the polarity of the neutron flow if I were you.
The one with the funny-looking screwdriver in the pocket, thanks.
Posts by BorkedAgain
686 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Mar 2010
Asus Eee Pad Slider
Making sport of browser security, hackers topple IE, Safari
Thursday 10th March 2011 11:11 GMT
@ Spodula
Y'reckon? You don't think the extra 20k on top of the 15k standard bounty, plus the kudos from the other hackmasters would tempt anyone?
More likely scenarios (as suggested elsewhere) would be:
* bought out for 36k + job + second-hand car with odd holes in roof
* Exploit no longer works on Chrome 10
* Bizarre GooNav accident drives him into a river en route to contest
Feel free to choose, depending on your favourite shape of tinfoil hat...
Microsoft compares Amazon cloud to 'horseless carriage'
Spooks' secret TEMPEST-busting tech reinvented by US student
Lady Gaga puts the squeeze on breast milk ice cream
iDect iHome Android phone
Tesco heralds 2011 as YEAR OF ANDROID
Wednesday 9th March 2011 13:33 GMT
Well...
Wide user adoption CAN translate into broader support, especially where apps are concerned. So popularity can be a useful factor in certain circumstances.
Probably shouldn't be the only or main factor, though. And the translation doesn't always happen; some pretty big names are still missing Android support, despite the fact that it's an increasingly popular platform. Naming no names.
Anyhoo. As you were...
Dixons Advent Vega
Hackers find Google's music cloud
Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old
Monday 7th March 2011 15:52 GMT
Sinclair's biggest issue (well, one of them...)
...was supply.
I remember studying an electronics course at the local night school, the end-result of which was to be the building of our very own ZX81 from the Sinclair-supplied kits. We paid our money*, built beepy wossnames out of 555 multivibrators, waited and waited and (as best I know) the kits never actually arrived...
I still get flashbacks when I smell a waft of flux-smoke...
*Well, I paid my parents' money. I was far too young to have much of my own...
Microsoft and Google tag-team GeoTag patent
Ex-PM blocked Steve Jobs knighthood
Midnight theft left Vodafone users bereft
SeaMicro drops 64-bit Atom bomb server
Doctor Who inspires another game, this time MMOG
Killzone 3
Google wheels (another) Trojan App inside Microsoft Office
Friday 25th February 2011 13:09 GMT
Dropbox good.
As Blubster says, Dropbox is also an excellent solution for this kind of thing: also cloud storage, with a nice local client allowing you to set up a folder to sync with your cloud account. Nicely seamless, easy to share (although not *entirely* flexible; can't share folders within shared folders...) but what's different about this is that the docs can be edited by multiple users *at the same time* which is sweet-as.
Sorry, I'll go away again...
Friday 25th February 2011 11:04 GMT 
Hoo boy.
I can see the Microsofties round these parts getting a sweat on already. Bless.
I've played with this a little; it's a tool for sharing / collaborating *in* Office *on* office documents *via* Google Docs. The link you send people allows them to *download* a version of the original (including fully-featured embedded charts) or *view* a read-only version which, rendered as it is through the Google Docs interface, is fine for general copy proofing but shouldn't be considered WYSIWYG.
It's kind of what Office 2010 with Sharepoint 2010 is trying to do. Only far cheaper, easier to set up and (ironically) considerably more functional and supporting more formats and versions.
Ouch.
Seriously folks, you should try this Kool-aid. It's decent stuff. Beery...
Mmm... Kool-aid...
Friday 25th February 2011 11:04 GMT
Ingrate.
Seriously. They've taken something MS have been trying (and failing) to do for years (years!) and just done it. So that it just works. For cheap.
True, the Cloud Connect toolbar is a bit in-your-face and could do with being smaller (and optional) but hey.
And you're saying the Mighty MS never acquired and integrated anything? Puh-leez...
(Okay, they acquire plenty, but the integration side of things was always tricky; takes a few versions before the UIs begin to converge, for a start... Visio anyone?)
I'm kidding. You're sweet, really...
Park the Mario Kart, and throw your keys in the bowl
Fujitsu relieves Ballmer's iPad pressure
German Foreign Office kills desktop Linux, hugs Windows XP
Memo to iPad mimics: No one wants a $799 knockoff
Google 'Arctic Sea' – Chrome native code, ahoy!
Google Apps boss says cloud computing is your destiny
Saturday 19th February 2011 13:25 GMT
Okay, sure...
... finally Sharepoint and Office are catching up on simultaneous updates. Here's something to consider, though:
(a) How many businesses have you encountered which are "implementing" sharepoint? Not have it up and running, but are (still) in the process of figuring out how to get it to work properly and roll it out to their users? And at what expense? Me, I've lost count. And I could* name you at least one that's STILL at it after four years. Four years, and still paying the consultants to roll out something that should just work...
(b) How easy is it to share that experience with someone outside your immediate corporate domain? If you have a living collaborative document that you use to track UAT results being posted by your client's testers and reviewed / updated by your in-house devs, for example?
(c) How easy and cheap is it to set it up in the first place? 'Cos my Mum could set up a Google Apps account (for free) and share and collaborate seamlessly on a workbook, a document, a presentation etc with any of her friends (with internet access) tomorrow. And, fine woman though she is, she's no MCSE. And all she needs is a browser.
I really don't want to sound like a zealot, but this is incredibly good stuff. Not everyone's cup of kool-aid, I'll grant you, but shouldn't be dismissed out-of-hand for lazy reasons.
*could but won't, 'cos that way lies trouble... ;)
Friday 18th February 2011 13:11 GMT
Who downvoted?
Seriously. Someone asked a question, and El Limerino answered it. What's to downvote?
Or did you not like the fact that there was an answer? "Ooh, someone spiked my FUD... Boo hoo..."
Like someone said earlier, horses for courses. There are a lot of applications where this simply works best. You don't have to deal with it, but it's worth getting up-to-speed on the subject in case it becomes part of your job at some point. And for those applications where it really doesn't make sense to go cloud, don't.
There. That wasn't so hard, was it?
Friday 18th February 2011 13:11 GMT
Well, just as a f'rinstance...
If you thin-client into a remote server to work on an Excel spreadsheet on a shared folder, and one of your colleagues wants to edit the same spreadsheet at the same time, it's going to go tits-up.
With a google workbook, I can have a conference call with a project team (in-house and external), all of us looking at the same status sheet at the same time, able to see who's updating what and how and all doing this in real-time. With version control in case the new guy wipes the whole thing.
Okay, not all of the analytics tools are reproduced; it's basic spreadsheet functionality (growing every month), but for 99% of uses it works, and the benefits from easy sharing are enormous.
Or you can email your precious trackers back and forth and try to figure out how to consolidate Fred's updates with Wilma's updates and Barney's deletions. I assume you have the time...
Inventor of the Workmate dies
US robot ornithopter spy-hummingbird in flight test triumph
RoboCop statue fundraiser hits $50k
Samsung intros 10in Android tablet
Monday 14th February 2011 16:53 GMT
Yeah, I know...
All the macho alpha-geeks are moaning about the "ugly" comment, 'cos tech SHOULD be ugly, right?
Well, I'm sorry but a tool that you're embarrassed to pull out in front of a client is a tool that stays in your satchel instead of being useful. I'm all for function over form, but form's a factor too.
Difference between you and me: I recognise the importance of form. Difference between me and a fruity-fanboi: I don't over-emphasise the importance of form.
La.
(Paris appreciates a well-formed tool... Obviously...)
Google brings 2-factor authentication to Gmail
Sunday 13th February 2011 16:10 GMT
No.
It's wrap your phone in tinfoil and your head in clingfilm.
***Children! This was a joke! Do not really wrap your phone in tinfoil or you'll block the signal!***
(seriously, if you do wrap your head in clingfilm 'cos I told you to then don't come crying to me if you die as a result. Have some common sense...)
It's official: Nokia bets on Microsoft for smartphones
Saturday 12th February 2011 16:24 GMT
Cheap, powerful alternatives...
...to the fancy Apple and Android offerings already exist. Some of the best run Android, mind, but they're not expensive. The Orange San Francisco, for example, is extremely capable, costs under a ton and can be unlocked for free.
Okay, it's not $30, but it does have the distinct advantage of actually existing...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
