Monday, October 24, 2011 at 7:19AM I heard about this over the weekend, so I thought I would try it out to see how bad this is. First off this only affects the iPad 2 running iOS5. To test this out for your self you will need to have passcode set on your iPad and a Smart Cover case, which I am assuming is the majority of iPad 2 owners out there. Steps to reproduce this are
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 6:49AM What can I say RIP Steve Jobs.
Below are a couple of links from other great techology people, and what they thought of Steve Jobs.
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Steve-Jobs
He will be long remembered for making great products, constanly innovating and making great ideas a reality. A man who accepted excellence as the only option.
Wired.com homepage is a great tribute to Steve Jobs, I recommend you check that out
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 1:07PM 
I have just synced my iPad and I saw that I had an update to the kindle application. When looking at the details of the update, I was shocked to see that to comply with the "App Store" conditions they had to remove the button to go to the kindle store from within the application.
Now from what I understand you are not supposed to carry out in-app purchases, but the button before took you out of the application loaded safari and took you to the Kindle Store. Now if you need to browse the kindle store you need to load Safari separately and navigate to the store via a bookmark or manually typing in the address, the link is (http://www.amazon.co.uk/kindlestore).
In my opinion it seems petty for Apple to make Amazon remove the button from the application, users are still going to use the kindle app to purchase books etc. By forcing them to carry out this manual step, it just gives some people out there who don't like Apple, more reasons because of issues like this, to me it just seems like Apple are flexing their muscles in this case.
I will still use Kindle/Amazon as the range is books is far greater and in many cases cheaper than the iBooks store.
I would love to know your thoughts
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 3:06PM These are just a couple of things that I thought sounded interesting from the WWDC keynote from Monday.
From now on with iOS5 you will no longer be tied to a PC or a MAC, you will be able to setup your device, wire free so to speak. This will also allow you to carry out over the air syncing and OS updates. iOS 5 will also work on the iPhone 3GS, I would of thought that it would just be for iPhone 4 and both iPad models, but it is good they will port is back to the 3GS. It was reported also that the notifications have now been significantly improved. It was mentioned that you will be able to receive location based reminders. iOS is available to developers now, and will be available for everyone this Autumn.
They also announced the next version of the OS called Lion. This will be released in July and again like Snow Leopard they have kept the price very low, this will cost £20.99. The only concern I have with this is that it will be download only, personally I have liked the fact you have a CD. The reason I like having the physical media is that there are the odd occasion that you will have to boot from the CD, so if this comes in download form only, what would you do in the event you need to boot from the CD?.
They also announced a new service called iTunes Match (only available in the US to start with but it will be coming to the UK after). This service basically allows you for a one off payment of $25 it will scan your machines for all your mp3 files and over to 256Kbps high quality version of the songs and store them in the cloud for you. Not sure how many people will take this up, there a lot of people out there who download/torrent mp3's them selves because they don't want to be tied into iTunes
The good news if you do buy a new Mac, when Lion is released in July you will be entitled to a free upgrade.
As always I am always interested in your thoughts so if you have any comments or feedback then please feel free to add any comments, or you can mail me here.
