March 15th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Apple, Music, Web/Tech
Spotify is a new piece of software (well relatively new anyway) which you can download to your PC or Mac and then listen to as much music as you want – for free. It’s advertising supported, so unless you sign up for the premium account, you’ll be hearing an ad every four or five tracks [...]
February 4th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Web/Tech
This looks pretty neat – Google Latitude is basically a service which allows you to see if any of your friends are nearby, so if you’re bored or whatever you can hook up with them.
I’ve tried services like this before (most significantly Brightkite) but they never seem to have gained enough acceptance to make it [...]
January 5th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Web/Tech
So I took the opportunity to do some works on my site behind the scenes. I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 which is brilliant, and thankfully went smoothly.
I’ve also enabled a function on my site that allows you to log in using Facebook when you want to post a comment – I just thought this was [...]
December 18th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Apple, Technology, Web/Tech
Mac users have been able to stream video from the BBC’s iPlayer service for a while now – nearly a year I think, but now you can download video as well, and keep it for 30 days before it expires. The BBC has launched a new version of the iPlayer desktop manager, which you can [...]
December 9th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Shopping, Web/Tech
Ok so I’m a bit behind with this because it happened last week, but Amazon have started selling music downloads – at a discount to iTunes. At the moment, as what I can only presume is a loss-leader to get people to try the service, they’re offering some brand new albums for only £3 – [...]
October 19th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Internet, Technology, Web/Tech
Ok I’m a bit behind with this, but basically if you are in the habit of sending drunk e-mails that you later regret, and are a Gmail user, fear no more, with the introduction of Mail Goggles from Google.
It asks you to perform some sums before you can send your e-mail, hence avoiding the crushing [...]
July 9th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Internet, Web/Tech
Google today launched Lively which is a like a Second Life type world where you can create your own avatars, rooms and chat with your friends. Details of how to actually get started with it seem pretty skimpy at the moment, but one cool feature is that you can apparently watch Youtube videos in a [...]
April 2nd, 2008 | by Simon | published in Photography, Technology, Web/Tech
If you’re like me, you’ll use an image editing application quite a lot – from removing red-eye from party photographs to cropping an image, rotating it or putting a border on it for your blog and so on.
It’s sometimes frustrating though, say if you’re at work and need to alter an image quickly or away [...]
September 3rd, 2007 | by Simon | published in Web/Tech
I use Gmail for my e-mail, and think it’s great – it does everything (almost) that I could possibly want – access from my Mail client at my home, the web, and my ‘phone. That’s not why I like the video above though – I think it’s just a brilliant demonstration of how creative people [...]
