Today I finally got around to fixing my wife’s laptop. It’s a HP Pavilion DV8000 series machine running Windows XP which is about 4 years old. It died about 12 months or so ago and has been hiding under the bed ever since. Read more…
Last week I was browsing the web just trying to catch up with some posts that I’d received through Twitter when I came across this from Allison Randall on the Ubuntu archives.
The main thing that jumped out at me was a reference to something called Quickly. Read more…
One of the biggest tech stories in the news today has been the new Apple App Store “try before you buy” apps. As far as I can tell this is actually just a separate section of the store where all the ‘Lite’ or ‘Free’ versions of pay for apps can be viewed in one place. In which case I don’t see how this is anything new at all.
In order to actually bring something new to the App Store and deliver better value for money for iPhone, iPad, iPod users what Apple actually needs to do is implement the 24 hour refund policy that is available on the Android Market.