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Why Steve Jobs is wrong about Flash
Steve Jobs doesn’t like Flash. That’s patently clear. He blames most Mac crashes on Flash and, I have to say, since Firefox starting sandboxing plugins I’ve seen regular reported Flash crashes. However, a lot – a lot – of high profile websites use Flash, mainly to render video. Steve’s answer to this is HTML 5…
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The T-Mobile G2 Touch finally gets Eclair!
Today, T-Mobile finally announced that Android 2.1 (Eclair) was available for G2 Touch (AKA HTC Hero) owners. If you’ve not received your “pre-upgrade” update already, you’ll need to do this – it makes various small changes in readiness for the Eclair update. To get this, wind your clock on by a month and switch off…
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Removing “My Bluetooth Places” desktop icon
Having just installed some new Bluetooth software, I was left with a “My Bluetooth Places” icon on my desktop. And you can’t delete it as you would with other icons. But there are two methods of getting rid of it (these apply to Windows XP)… Use Tweak UI – under the “Desktop” you can untick…
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The iPhone 4 – We may or may not recommend it
The iPhone 4, evolutionary rather than revolutionary, has had users reporting signal strength problems since its launch. It continues to sell well, despite what appears a big flaw and Apple refusing to be helpful. Let’s have a quick run down of what’s happened since the iPhone 4 launch on the 24th June.
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TomTom – remembering existing customers
Earlier in the year I purchased a years worth of HD Traffic service from TomTom. More recently they’ve made the decision to half the price of this service. Now, paying up front, most people would accept that this is the cost of buying up-front and wouldn’t expect that existing customers would feel the benefit until…