As 2011 comes to an end I pondered on my last story of the year. I wanted to avoid looking back as we should always look forward. However I also wanted to avoid the trap of speculating on next years tech, and I am very anti-rumour. There are enough sites out there churning out the latest tech stories from un-named sources, or those familiar with the product !
Instead I leave you with a question….. What do those lovely people at the Mozilla Foundation (Firefox, etc) do with all the donations?
It is no great surprise that over the holiday period the use of technology increases, and it will also be of little surprise that a very popular Christmas gift is a smart phone or device.
The figures are quite astounding when you compare them to the norm.
At this time of year you may be lucky enough to receive the gift of a PC or laptop running the latest Windows version and everything will be zipping along nicely.
In your excitement you will possibly install so many bits of software and listen to the advice of an army of PC experts. Here are my tips on configuring your new PC/Laptop.
I’ve blogged about LogMeIn Ignition in the past, and I stand by the review. LogMeIn is an excellent app for the PC or Mac allowing you to control a device from a remote location.
Ignition was a great leap forward allowing you to control a remote PC/Mac from your iPad/iPhone. It had a difficult price tag but I eventually caved and paid the price.
Now the people over at LogMeIn Inc have announced a free version – yes that’s right folks, you now get a free version for the iPad/iPhone. This coupled with the free version of the LogMeIn host software makes a great suite of tools.
A few days ago Twitter announced their latest attempt at a Twitter front-end facelift in a bid to engage their users better. They have had a number of attempts over the years, and each is met with a lot of negatively. To be fair, any system that is upgraded will always attract a lot of criticism as people inevitably get comfortable with the current setup and find ways to work with any quirks.
The most recent change is a bold step for Twitter.
Finally, after what seems like an eternity, Facebook are rolling out the new Timeline feature, but only in New Zealand to start with. Although it has been available to turn on for developers this will be its first public appearance.
The very controlled rollout does make you wonder how sure they are of the update, especially when they say “we are making Timeline more widely available as we measure speed and other types of performance”. Of course this could be viewed as sensible practise, however the more suspicious amongst us may be more sceptical.
Timeline was announced and demonstrated in September 2011 by Mark Zuckerberg, the social network’s founder.
Do you ‘Chrome’ or ‘Firefox’? Let’s forget IE for the moment (well actually, can we forget it completely?!)
I’ve been a fan of Firefox since the early days — I think since version 2 in 2006. I’ve watched it grow from an obscure little browser, used by geeks into a mainstream browser, used and loved by millions.