* Posts by Matt K

61 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Sep 2008

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Wheels come off O2's data network

Matt K

Hmm

It was fairly temperamental late this morning, but I've had no problems since with email or web surfing over 3G or EDGE on an iPhone in London.

MP asks UK.gov: Why are you still using IE6?

Matt K

@ AC 09:04

Somehow I suspect a Conservative (or any other flavoured) government won't be rushing to bleeding-edge technology either.

Oh, and what everyone else said on the risks and difficulty of moving large organisations to newer versions or replacement OS types.

O2 tells Apple fans to talk to the hand

Matt K

What's a portlet?

Great Yarmouth?

Wanted: Creative spark for iPhone games

Matt K

A sea of mediocrity

There are a couple of decent, different iPhone games - Zen Bound and Sway spring to mind - but the majority are just mediocre ports (with added touch, as the article suggests).

However, the setup of the iTunes store really doesn't help. It's very difficult to filter out the dross and see what apps are really new or different. iTMS really needs some quality control barriers.

Having said that, I'll still leap at the first iPhone port of Football/Championship Manager...

Profs: Facebook, Twitter users are lazy, thick, amoral

Matt K

Causation & correlation

There's a lot of bet-hedging going on in that Karpinski study. If all that can reasonably be concluded is that there's some correlation between using social networking sites and not scoring highly academically - well, duh.

As the linked article says, there could be a whole host of other reasons why those students aren't doing as well, and cutting out social networking sites may make no difference at all to their future performance.

iPhone apps punt iPhone apps

Matt K

Erm...

Isn't this likely just to see app developers slinging each other a few bob for a favourable review, or agreeing to promote each others's apps?

Slimline iPhone pictures unearthed

Matt K

"Probably fake" iPhone pictures

Slow news day then?

Online retailer offers Sim-free iPhone 3Gs

Matt K

Er, what about the cost of data?

I'm no shill for O2 (God forbid) but isn't half of the attraction of the iPhone deal the unlimited data? Why would anyone pay £550 and then fork out for data usage on top?

(I can understand why someone wouldn't want to be tied to an O2 contract, but not why they would splash out this much and then pay for calls, texts and data on top. I mean, I like my iPhone, but I'd happily switch back to my Nokia E51 rather than pay those kind of numbers.)

Feds shutter one-stop stalker shop

Matt K

Guess who's not coming to dinner

Daniel B - Tracer R Spence / Spence R Tracer / Spencer Tracy ... or maybe I'm just reading too much into an odd name.

OpenOffice 3 goes native on the Mac

Matt K

File sizes

I'm not exactly an advanced OOo user, but the most noticeable difference to me (other than the shiny new icons) is that file sizes for Office documents seem to have shrunk impressively - .xls and .doc files saved through OOo 3.0 are coming in at a third of the previous file size.

Apple 2G iPod Shuffle

Matt K

...connectors...

I love my Shuffle. I don't miss the screen at all - I was raised on cassette walkmen and making your own mixtapes, so not having a display telling me what's next is no loss.

As for the irritating dock, you can buy rather handy connectors for about a fiver - myincipio.com/product/IP-300 (no, I'm not affiliated with this lot - I have something that looks exactly the same but came from a different manufacturer).

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