Travel guides: big and heavy. When you go on holiday, there’s nothing better than having a good travel guide book. The best ones like Lonely Planet and Rough Guides provide accurate and in-depth information about the places you’re at or going to, with maps, pictures and so on. This is especially useful when you don’t [...]
One thing that surprises me is how few people use RSS feeds to keep updated with news and blogs. Even though it saves users countless time, few seem to know about or understand what it is. Whenever I try to explain RSS, it’s hard to get across what exactly it does in a clear and [...]
Ars Technica reports rumours of an iTunes subscription model: A report by the Financial Times (registration required) cites unnamed executives who say that Apple is in talks with record labels to offer access to the entire iTunes music library for a lump sum price. The fee would be added as a premium option on an [...]
Anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch is sitting very comfortably after today’s announcements. Apple revealed its software developer kit (SDK) and showed off demos of enterprise software and videogames which had been built in only two weeks. There are two sides to this – the developers’ and the users’ – but both perspectives look [...]
As you may know, I’m quite an Apple fan and my interest in the Californian company began a few years ago when I got a second generation 10GB iPod. I then replaced this with a 60GB iPod Photo and added a MacBook Pro to my collection 18 months ago to complete ‘the switch’. When the [...]