August 29th, 2009
I have been able to update my iPod with the latest App for Facebook. It’s really nice and since leaving my blackberry behind I find this app even more intuitive to use than the the blackberry one.
I have not noticed any great new features but the layout is much nicer and what I want [...]
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Tags: Blackberry, Facebook, iphone, iPod, New Features
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August 20th, 2009

I don’t qualified to write a review of this awesome gig but I need to give it a shot.
Seeing U2 play live is always going to be a treat but with their most recent album receiving mixed reviews, this maybe POPmart revisted. Their choice of openning track, Breathe was an interesting one, but after seeing [...]
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Tags: Atmosphere, Classic Songs, Crowd, Doubts, Drum Groove, Gig, Glasgow, Great Graphics, Hilt, Horizon, How To Dismantle And Atomic Bomb, New Album, New Songs, Pitch, Riff, Snails Pace, Tunes, U2, U2 Live, Unforgettable Fire
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August 17th, 2009

Whilst trawling the interweb I noticed one of my friends has started a new blog. Nothing too exciting there except that he is using blogspot in place of myspace, and that his music is AWESOME.
Check it out.
http://gavinmart.blogspot.com/
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Tags: Interweb, Music Mart, Myspace
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August 10th, 2009

Most people in the tech world have been buzzing over the massive judgement levied against a student for illegally downloading and sharing 30 copyrighted songs online. The student, Joel Tenenbaum of Boston University, was ordered to pay the RIAA $675,000 for the copyright infringements last week by a jury. Citing his obvious lack of funds [...]
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Tags: 1000s, Actual Damages, Assumptions, Bankruptcy, Boston University, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Infringements, Copyright Laws, Downloaded Music, File Bankruptcy, File For Bankruptcy, Financial Damages, Judgement, Law States, Money, Mr Tenenbaum, Music Games, People, Producers, Recording Industry, Riaa
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August 10th, 2009

As the internet continues to grow at incredibly fast rates, the debate and fear that the government will censor its citizens from viewing certain material is always there. TechRadar, a popular technology site, is now listing many of the countries that actively censor content. Many of the expected countries are listed there. China prohibits its [...]
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Tags: Airports, Alcohol, Authorities, Breast Cancer, Cancer Breast, Censorship, Censorship Internet, Child Pornography, Citizens Internet, Citizens Watch, Illustration, Internet Watch Foundation, Laptops, Outgoing Traffic, Regime, Residential Traffic, Saudi Arabia, Train Stations, Uk Slant, Url Comparison, Urls, Violent Pornography
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August 9th, 2009

Continuing my on-going hands-on review of this amazing phone (my first post is here), I want to talk briefly about the case I just bought.
After lots of searching on google and ebay, I settled on this crystal case and screen protector pack from Amazon. I have never had a crrystal case before but I am really [...]
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Tags: Amazing Phone, Amazon, Crystal Case, Ebay, Google, Highest Quality, Music Crystal, Music Review, Nerd, nokia, Nokia 5800, Nokia Case, Nokia Music, Nokia Review, Screen Protector, Xpress
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August 5th, 2009

So thanks to a loop-hole I have been released from my contract with Orange early and was able to get myself a new handset. I settled on the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music I have had the phone a couple of days now and I am really enjoying using it.
As a non-techie geek I thought it would be [...]
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Tags: Clarity, Couple Of Days, Customisation Options, Handset, Loop Hole, Love, Menu System, Music Top, nokia, Nokia 5800, Nokia Music, Notifications, Operating System, Probaby, Professional Reviewers, Techie Geek, Touch Screen, Xpress
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August 1st, 2009

Firefox may be headed for a couple of significant design changes as the latest mockups from the organization reveal that they are contemplating a Chrome-esque interface. Two mockups were displayed, one with the traditional tabs under the address bar and another with the tabs above the address bar. Although I’ve never contemplated the pros and [...]
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Tags: Application Icon, Browser Industry, Compromise, Consistency, Design Changes, Design Decision, Existing Users, Familiarity, Firefox, Heck, Mockups, Mozilla, Pros And Cons, Space Efficiency, Tabs, Titlebar, Vertical Space, Visual Complexity, Visual Element, Window Widgets
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July 31st, 2009

A little while ago, I wrote about Microsoft’s new store idea and how it can and should compete with the widely successful Apple retail stores. Two days ago the good people at Gizmodo received some leaked slides from a PowerPoint presentation that show how the new stores will look. Suffice it to say, I think [...]
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Tags: Apple Retail Stores, Apple Store, Business School, Clone, Functionality, gadgets, Genius, Heck, Market Share, Media Center, Microsoft Employees, Microsoft Store, Place Where People, Powerpoint Presentation, Retail Concept, Sized Tv, Slides, Tv Displays, Visual Studio, Xbox
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July 29th, 2009

Over the past few years I have become more and more fond of foreign language films, there’s something unique about the way the story is told, and how each scene is shot and coloured. ‘Le Vie en Rose’ is a biographical drama that tells the harrowing tale of Edit Piaf’s life and relatively short career. [...]
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Tags: Best Actress, Biographical Drama, Brothel, Desperate State, Different Times, Edith Piaf, Final Cut, First World War, Foreign Language, French Singer, Heyday, La Vie En Rose, Language Films, Le Vie En Rose, Marion Cotillard, National Legend, Portrayal, Spending Time, Tribulation, Young Girl
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