Spotify is a peer-to-peer music streaming allowing users to listen to specific tracks or albums on-demand. Despite launching clients for Android, Symbian and iPhone OS, an officially supported Squeezebox Server (formerely SqueezeCentre) client for Spotify hasn’t yet been unveiled. Until somebody...
Playing Spotify through Squeezebox
Posted in Technology on Sunday, January 03 2010 by Nick Kewney
Twitter Brings Back SMS Updates for O2 Subscribers
Posted in Technology on Tuesday, July 28 2009 by Nick Kewney
In August 2008, it was announced that Twitter would stop sending SMS updates free outside the USA . "Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US." Today, it is reported that Twitter...
English to Scots Translations in your .NET Project
Posted in Technology on Friday, May 08 2009 by Nick Kewney
You can now use the Scotranslate dictionary in your own project using the new developer API . You simply pass in the English phrase for translation and the system will return your phrase back in broad Scots! You can use this to translate your entire website, or provide your own English to Scots translation...
BlackBerry Bold: The Business iPhone?
Posted in Technology on Tuesday, September 02 2008 by Nick Kewney
When RIM announced the BlackBerry Bold in April of this year, they promised the ultimate BlackBerry in terms of form and function. They have been kind enough to send us an evaluation unit which I spend some time playing around and I thought I'd take the opportunity to post my thoughts on the new model...
Twitter's rules of business
Posted in Technology on Saturday, August 30 2008 by Nick Kewney
Twitter recently announced that they are to stop sending SMS updates free outside the USA. I'm not really bothered about this as I use Twitterific for the iPhone, but what confuses me is why they don't seem to want your money. Let's consider the following quote from the Twitter blog post: Even with a...
iPhone 3G: The Lack of a User-Replacable Battery
Posted in Technology on Thursday, July 31 2008 by Nick Kewney
I am appalled by the iPhone 3G's battery life. Apple has put an obsessive amount of effort into creating a fantastic looking product that's light years ahead of the competition in terms of overall user experience and external aesthetics. Sadly, their obsession for design has resulted in two major shortcomings...
The TELEFUNKEN
Posted in Technology on Tuesday, July 08 2008 by Nick Kewney
Never before has there been such a gulf between the excitement of a product's name (The TELEFUNKEN) and the disappointing reality (an 11" digital photo frame) In short, it's an 11.3 inch LCD with a slide show feature meaning your "pictures change automatically" (actual product marketing...
3G iPhone
Posted in Technology on Sunday, June 15 2008 by Nick Kewney
Apprently Apple haven't got enough of your money and want some more. Last week saw the announcement of the new iPhone 3G with exciting new features like 3G and... oh that's all? Only Apple could make front page news out of something like this. I actually have Christmas gifts from my 90 year old grandparents...
Twittering: Even more irritating than blogging
Posted in Technology on Friday, March 21 2008 by Nick Kewney
Just when we thought it couldn't get more irritating than blogging, we can now share our tiniest thoughts throughout the day with Twitter . I just started Twittering . Not because I want to, but because someone started a viral marketing campaign to make me think it's a good idea to share the things I...
Calls for a Scottish top level domain
Posted in Technology on Monday, March 17 2008 by Nick Kewney
Do you think Scotland needs it's own top-level domain extension? Scottish visitors should check out this page for an outline of the proposal on Wikipedia Scotland. Everyone else should visit dotSCO , the campaign site for the .sco gTLD. Their plan is to submit a proposal to ICANN later in the year. You...