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Watch this? Maybe not
Life, James Hein, Published on 10/09/2014
» What would the week be without another Apple rumour? The new iWatch, out next year, will apparently cost US$400 (about 13,000 baht). I recently ordered a smartwatch for about $40, just to see what it could do. I seriously doubt I would ever pay 10 times that amount for a similar item. More when it arrives and I get to play with it.
Are Padfones one step too far?
Life, James Hein, Published on 11/06/2014
» Sometimes all you need, or want, is a simple version of a device that will meet your needs. All too often in the IT and technology industries, builders keep adding bits and pieces to a product to try and make it all things to all people. Microsoft Office is one example. How many people use all the functionality of, say, Word — or even 50% of what’s available?
Flash in the pan
Life, James Hein, Published on 21/08/2013
» As you might imagine, companies that make flash drives are working on making them faster, have them last longer and keeping the prices down. At a recent Flash Memory Summit in California a Facebook representative was urging them to "just make it dense and cheap". His reasoning is that there are some types of information that don't need fast access speeds such as logs, usage metrics and even some user data that they hardly ever access. How many photos have people uploaded that they looked at once and are now stored in memory bytes somewhere? "Write-once, read-never is probably the spec for a lot of this," the rep suggested. In other news, there is such a thing as a Flash Memory Summit.
Windows 8 for tablet
Life, James Hein, Published on 14/08/2012
» It is time to start thinking about Windows 8. OK that's enough. Windows 8 is primarily aimed at the tablet or touch-based computer market. Yes there is a PC version and yes it has been adjusted for regular mouse and keyboard users but according to organisations such as Gartner it is not all that suitable as a corporate replacement for Windows 7.
How to get rid of those annoying hangers-on
Database, James Hein, Published on 06/10/2010
» Have you ever noticed how hard it is to get rid of some products from your computer? Some, like McAfee and Norton Antivirus, are well-known examples, but one reader contacted me about Yahoo Messenger.
If they didn't want it then, why would they want it now?
Database, James Hein, Published on 08/09/2010
» A number of companies are now readying their iPad challenger. But why? What has changed in the past 10 years to suggest people who once rejected pen or touchscreen computing will now embrace it?
Win 7 a winner on my new notebook
Database, James Hein, Published on 14/07/2010
» This week I'll catch up on some reports I promised for Windows 7, my new notebook and Jitbit's Macro recorder software.
The extermination of all things impure from Apple
Database, James Hein, Published on 24/02/2010
» Is Oracle a trusted form of Open source software? With the recent resignation of Ken Jacobs, the man tipped to look after MySQL, people are starting to wonder. Jacobs was known as the friendly face of Open source in Oracle. When Oracle did not assign MySQL to Jacobs, he quit. Jacobs did say that he believed Oracle would look after MySQL and "make it better".