Just One More Thing…

I’ve been working on something on the quiet. Actually a few of us have been working on something. If you were at Edinburgh Coffee Morning or The Tuttle Club today you may have caught sight of this little beast in the raw.
We’re calling it the PsiXpda, and we’re publicly announcing it today.

I’m back in [...]

Does Google Chome OS redefine our computing needs?

So the dust settles on the details on Chrome OS and everyone can spend the next few months debating Google’s strategy.
Unlike other Bay Area companies, Google has been known to get it wrong, so just because they are doing something, it doesn’t meant that they will make a success of it. With Chrome OS they’re [...]

A Card Game Designed For Heavy Duty Mathematics

Now this looks fun!
Geekstack (www.geekstack.com) is a card came, currently in the late stages of design, from Peter Chrisensen and Michael Pavelich. The hook? It’s not going to be just a great collectible card game, but it’s going to have educational cards by using real life people as the ‘heroes’, and it’s going to have [...]

iFringe and The Podcast Network bring BAFTA-nominated Fringe Show to the iPhone App Store

For Immediate Release Monday August 3rd, Edinburgh
iFringe – the independent guide to the Edinburgh Fringe for the Apple iPhone – and The Edinburgh Fringe Podcast have announced a major collaboration for this year’s Festival.
A unique new venture from six of the Fringe’s leading independent reviewers, iFringe brings together reviews, video [...]

Skipping the Edinburgh Girl Geek Dinner Next Month

Kate has asked if I’d mention the upcoming Girl Geek dinner to take place in Edinburgh. Following on from the first Scottish Dinner in Dundee, the Edinburgh Girl Geek Dinner will happen on May 14th, at Edinburgh University’s Informatics Forum in 10 Crichton Street.
More details and tickets can be found here.
I look forward to reading [...]

Hello Darkness My Old Friend, No Longer on Spotify

Now that Spotify has run into trouble with the music labels (suddenly?), everyone is going to be looking for the next new thing.
May I suggest you look at Stopify, the world of silence available for a small paypal donation. I think they’re in alpha, but the website design is… striking
Sign up at www.stopify.com.

Twitter Shot J.R. – How The Buzz Is Turning Towards Making Money

TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter is close to securing another funding round which should value Ev’s company at a quarter of a billion dollars. No matter the economic climate, or any lingering web bubble, investors do not put down the cash unless they see some concrete plans.
Now those plans could be a cold hard plan [...]

The TechCrunch CrunchPad Is The Future of Fabrication

A fair amount of buzz today over Michael Arrington’s posting of details of his Tablet Computing prototype over on TechCrunch. Arrington is looking to make a slate-style touch screen device, running at 1024×768, and booting directly to a Webkit based browser. It looks ungainly now – although I think the Duplo based stand (*) in [...]

Not Your Father’s Palm – Impressions of the Palm Pre

So at CES today, Palm unveiled their new phone, the Palm Pre. This is a tough time for Palm, they’ve not had luck with their recent devices and software. The assumption is that this device had to hit it out of the park for Palm to survive the recession.
Form the initial looks, I think it’s [...]

The Silent DJ Is Here – How Did That Song Go Again?

Probably the craziest music I’ve heard is the Silent Disco – where everyone piles into a location, grabs a pair of headphones, and starts dancing to the music on the headphones. The music is supplied by DJ’s which broadcast the music to every headset. So people who want to hear the music can hear it, [...]

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