Re: I miss the days when it was just email!
lucky for you there is a whatsapp pc app. Downside is it relies on having your phone online but its still more convenient than constantly picking your phone up
Posts by Duncan Idaho
16 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Apr 2012
Tanks for the memories: Building a post-Microsoft Office cloud suite
Is your IT department too tough on users?
Friday 10th January 2014 17:53 GMT
minefield
I wish but giving that control to people in general is a minefield. That's not to say the Core 2 Duo 3GHz with 3GB of RAM I have to deal with isn't a daily frustration. I retired my home computer with a same-generation 3.2GHz quad core with 8GB of RAM a year ago because it didn't have enough RAM!
Having a 64 bit image and being able to double the RAM would probably solve most of the complaints we have.
T-Mobile US: AT&T's mobe buyout deal is so 'desperate', we'll do it too
Ten... freeware gems for new PCs
Friday 11th May 2012 22:15 GMT
Re: And then...
Zero Assumption Recovery is amazing for recovering images from memory cards for free. I bought the full version after using the free a few times. Well worth it. There might be other more full-featured free programs but for flexibility in dealing with images it does seem to have everything.
Hated Visual Studio 11 beta in HIGH-ENERGY colour blast
Dell puts Sputnik open-source laptop on launch pad
Zynga shares wobble as biz bleeds $85.4m in Q1
What kind of LOSER sits in front of a PC...
Sunday 22nd April 2012 23:41 GMT 
No Nook there? bummer
Being over here on the left side of the pond I treated myself to a Nook Simple Touch back in January and love it. I found it less "gadgety" than the Kindle Touch and more like something that was just meant to be read on.
I plug it in to my computer, load it with oodles of epubs and off I go.
And of course now they just announced one with a built in LED lighting system, curses!
Hands on with the Nikon D3200 DSLR
Sunday 22nd April 2012 19:45 GMT
I'm stuck in an annoying spot. The 5D Mark III is in every way that matters to me an improvement over my 1D Mark II but the 5D Mark III does not pack a sensor as capable as the D800. Other than the sensor though I prefer the 5D III and it is what I'm looking for. It just smarts to pay $500 extra for it which is one part of why I haven't yet (that and limited options for arca-swiss style L plates).
Image quality on the 5D3 is very good, yes, but the D800 has leapfrogged it in a couple ways. In most cases the differences aren't enormous but they're there. Of course back when I bought my 1D2 it was the other way around. I'm fairly confident we'll see the torch pass back and forth in the future but I don't really care to buy new cameras every few years, hence why I've been using the same one for almost 8 now.
I'd be a lot happier buying the 5D3 if it cost the same as the D800, but it doesn't. Hopefully the prices will drop before I actually make the jump. I'll grumble about how the D800s sensor is technically better but the 5D3 still beats my 1D2 in dynamic range, ISO, resolution, size, color, etc.
Too many lenses to jump, some which have no appropriate replacement on the Nikon side.
Sunday 22nd April 2012 19:45 GMT
Re: And still no built in GPS
Some people vehemently deny the benefit of in-built GPS but I wouldn't mind it. Wouldn't use it all the time but if it was there? Yes, yes I'd have a GPS built in to my camera, please and thank you.
As long as it's not significantly jacking the price of the camera up (the external addons are absurdly expensive) and it can be turned off and not impact battery life (and location acquisition is performed promptly) it would be swell.
Sergey Brin REALLY ADMIRES Apple, Facebook
Sunday 22nd April 2012 18:53 GMT
Re: Google...
Plenty of companies do a lot of following. Even Apple wasn't the first at a lot of things they have done (and I'd argue they didn't even get it right a lot of the time but somehow they're still successful).
Sometimes the follower gets it right though, although sometimes getting it right isn't enough to be successful. It worked with the Google's search engine and with Gmail. Android seems to be working if they can keep it going but Google+, which to me seems nicer than Facebook, is a ghost town (I check but don't use it).
Of course Google has innovated more than just with maps. Consider how they've monetized search and what they've done to internet advertising. They have had their hands in a lot of other innovative pots but not all have been as high profile.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
