Pandora Genome Meets Apple iTunes?
With iTunes 8 just around the corner and some rumored changes that include iTunes suggesting songs you might like or in some way to grouping your music better, I saw a potential acquisition for Apple...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome In Parallels – Flash Is Too Slow
I use Windows on my iMac using Parallels and Firefox runs very well. There’s not really anything I cannot do, since it is actually the fasted experience of Windows I’ve ever had. This is mainly due to...
View Article"Simplify Media" For The iPhone – Too Simple?
Like most people nowadays my computer’s music collection has grown out of all proportion. I have more music on there than I could ever hope to listen to. Gigabytes on top of gigabytes. Luckily there...
View ArticleiPhone 3G – Battery Dies Twice As Fast
I’m finding the battery 3G iPhone is dying very fast. Hopefully the 2.1 iPhone firmware update being released on Friday will do as they say it will and make the battery life better.
View ArticleWelcome To Rogers – The Story Of The Phantom Caller
I recently purchased my first iPhone. Here in Canada, like every other country, there’s only one provider of the iPhone, which is Rogers. I’ve really not enjoyed my experience with Bell and I had heard...
View ArticleSclogging – A Different Slant On Blogging
This week I had an idea for a different form of blogging. This stemmed from the fact that we’ve been seeing a great response with opt-in email and responsiveness to email campaigns. Communicating...
View ArticleMac OSX’s Preview Annotations
This is what I’ve been looking for all my life. Well, all my take-a-screenshot-to-help-explain-which-button-to-click-on life, anyway. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does you want to do it...
View ArticleIs iChat the future of iPhone 4.0?
After seeing the iPhone 4G on Engadget and the front facing camera that will be included, I started to think about what Apple intends as the future of the device. For the iPad Wifi+3G Apple has...
View ArticleAn Android Developer, I Am
Well, I guess I have to be now, because I have just won a Samsung Galaxy Spica Android phone from Rogers. They kindly donated it to the Vancouver Android Developers Meetup. It’s running 1.5, so I want...
View ArticleIs Your Next Phone a Nokia?
This week I attended Mobile Geeks Vancouver where we were given a presentation by Samir Agarwal, Head of Maemo Operations at Nokia in Mountain View, California. The presentation by Samir was definitely...
View ArticleDiaspora – Coming back out of the cloud will be painful
$200,641 has been pledged for the development of Diaspora, the decentralized web implementation, which intends to replace Facebook with a version that is distributed. Each user will retain their own...
View ArticleGmail Priority Inbox – The Email Marketer’s Nightmare
Gmail Priority Inbox is a great idea. Prior to this the Inbox was split into 2 levels – Inbox and Spam. This Priority Inbox creates a third middle level, which is essentially “ham”. Ham is all the...
View ArticleiPhone 3G’s iOS 4.1 Upgrade Cannot Come Soon Enough
When I signed up to Apple’s iPhone Developer programme I had full intention of developing some really cool apps. It has not happened yet, but I have been able to get the latest and greatest iPhone OS...
View ArticleWorking With Large Data Sets
For the past three and a half years I have been working for a start-up in downtown Vancouver. We have been developing a high performance SMTP proxy that can scale to handle tens of thousands of...
View ArticleBootstrappers Unite!
“A situation in which an entrepreneur starts a company with little capital. An individual is said to be bootstrapping when he or she attempts to found and build a company from personal finances or from...
View ArticleData Mining Without Hadoop
This is a follow-up to my recent blog-post on Working With Large Data Sets. That post had some interest, so I thought it would be a good idea to go through the methodologies I had used for processing...
View ArticleLocation, Location, Location
I’ve been meeting other Vancouver entrepreneurs at various networking events and discussing ideas with them. A common theme I’m seeing is that most of them are very focused on building technology with...
View ArticleGreat And Real Customer Service
Customer service has been on my mind recently. Funny, because I do not currently have any customers. I’ve been reading (listening to an audiobook, but it sounds funny if I say “listening to”) the...
View ArticleTools for Testing Ruby On Rails
I’m getting stuck into learning Ruby On Rails and the topic of which tools / frameworks to use for testing came up. Here’s some notes. I’ll be reading up on these testing frameworks in the following...
View ArticleTo Show Ads Or Not To Show Ads
I was just reading “An appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales”, where he is asking for donations for supporting the continuation of Wikipedia, ad-free. I do not need to tell you what an amazing...
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