The Other Foot

August 16, 2013 scaine 0

This cracked me up : http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4625502/microsoft-responds-to-google-youtube-windows-phone-block So Microsoft are whining that Google won’t tell them how their ad engine works, despite needing to know this so that they can write their own Youtube app (they won’t accept Google’s one, or perhaps Google refused to write one […]

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Let it all out (part #1)

January 28, 2013 scaine 0

Sometimes you just have to get it out there, get it off your chest and have a good rant. In no particular order, here’s a tidy list of things that pissed me off in the world of technology recently : This bug, in launchpad, where […]

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Apple vs Google

October 1, 2010 scaine 0

How can I defend Google while slating Apple?  How can someone put Apple down for their “we know better” walled-garden approach to the AppStore, the iPhone and iPad, while on the other hand defend Google’s invasive “if you need something to be private, you probably […]

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Chromium (Take Two)

July 7, 2010 scaine 0

It was September last year when I last properly tried Chromium in Ubuntu.  Back then, there was no bookmark sync, extensions were a glint in the dev’s eyes and GTK theme support was a new feature. I didn’t particularly elaborate in that article about why […]