O2 Contract Cancellation Gymnastics

Image via Wikipedia I am unfortunately moving to a new flat where I don’t have O2 coverage in spite of the fact that I still have a contract with 5 months outstanding and that I’m generally happy with O2. When I signed up for my iPhone contract, I chose the 45 pound a month plan [...]

Convention vs. Intuitive Interface Design

I was at a conference yesterday that brought up the issue of user interfaces in next generation web services and TV @home services. The key hurdle many people identified during the Q&A was the issue of how to get the average normal user to ‘get’ the interface and all the new features that designers were [...]

My Take on the iPad

As is usually the case with Apple products, the iPad oozes tech coolness. It promises a new freedom to consume media more comfortably. It promises a more efficient way of doing things we currently do on a laptop or phone, but does it really? Although I can’t argue the merits of the device, particularly for [...]

The Kindle, A Parrot, and Platform Cyclicality

This Christmas I was able to play with the Amazon Kindle. Chromewalker’s little sister (CLS), in an attempt to out-do her brother, asked Santa for one of the more recent ‘lust worthy’ gadgets on the market. She must have behaved well, for she got the new ‘international version’ Kindle. However, as usual, CLS is more [...]

Trends in Mobile

Image via Wikipedia These are not some sort of top ten trends nor are they new (you may have heard of these before), but they are trends which I increasingly see  in Mobile: 1) It is all about the platforms that developers will care to develop for: Android (free), iPhone (easy) – these will dictate the [...]

Google Location Favorites

I recently logged into my Google account on my iPhone and noticed that it (the browser) was allowed access to check to see where my location was (I don’t remember this being possible in the 2.2.1 version of the OS). Then after it found my location, it allowed me to see “favourite places”. I clicked [...]

Life after Death and the Future of Avatars

Image via Wikipedia I recently saw the new Caprica TV Show / Movie and was struck by how much they had borrowed the concept of the avatar from the book ‘The Seeker’ where the crew of the space vessel used the avatars of dead people to interact with them. The premise  is simple: During your [...]

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