- 7th
- SMS Export → I’ve always harboured a slight grudge against text messages, because they’re never treated as first-class citizens of internet messaging; they’re a hack built on an obscure part of the GSM specification, never intended to be used for person-to-person messages, and still to this day treated as temporary data. Few phones let you even save texts, [...]
- 15th
- Audio end-game → The preferred method of pirating music has long been to rip and release whole albums at a time, but with fast broadband and BitTorrent, pirate releases are getting bigger and bigger. Here are some of the files offered up on The Pirate Bay right now: The History of Rock & Roll 1956-1977 (Bill Drake) - 6.12 [...]
- Nokia maps → I went to Bristol on Tuesday to look for somewhere to live! The N95’s built-in GPS and map program worked amazingly well. It was at least as good as a standalone satnav system, and it only cost £4.50 for a week, rather than £200 for a Tom Tom that I’d only use for a week [...]
- 20th
- HM Revenue and Customs leaks private data → BBC News: Confidential details of 15 million child benefit recipients are on computer discs lost by HM Revenue and Customs, the BBC understands. What will come of this? There might be some political kerfuffle in the House of Commons and the newspapers, somebody might resign, a department or two might be reshuffled, and a few unlucky individuals [...]
- 26th
- Free for now → I like reading Ars Technica. It’s a thoughtful, conservative journal of geeky topics with just the right volume of coverage that following it doesn’t become a chore. So that’s why I was reading about something called the Folder Quick Look Plugin for Mac OS X. The programme sounds strangely unremarkable - it “now lets you [...]
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