Archives / 2009

TuneChecker and I Love Stars


Posted by Ian on 31 Dec 2009 / 4 Comments


Legally downloading music has started to take off as more buying choices become available. At one point iTunes was the only buying option but there are now many places that sell digital music. TuneChecker is a great website that shows you where to buy music online at the cheapest price and the potential savings are [...]

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360Live


Posted by Ian on 31 Dec 2009 / 2 Comments


For 360 gamers and iPhone owners there’s finally an app that allows you to easily browse your complete friends list – 360Live. Previous app’s have always been pretty disappointing as you had to manually add friends to your list on the iPhone which to be honest is a pain in the backside. 360Live connects to [...]

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Handbrake and Perian


Posted by Ian on 30 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment


Handbrake is a great video ripping utility for the Mac. Handbrake was initially a DVD ripping tool which was always reliable but for video transcoding I relied on VisualHub. That was until the company behind VisualHub shuttered development. For a few months there was a bit of a gap in the Mac market but Handbrake [...]

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Click To Flash


Posted by Ian on 30 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment


Flash on the Mac is painful. Anytime I hit a website that uses flash my CPU usage takes a hit, along with my battery on the laptop. Not good. This is more obvious if it’s video content on Flash, particularly HD video. There are rumblings that Flash 10.1 will address some of the issues but [...]

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Reeder


Posted by Ian on 29 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment


Reeder is an iPhone app built for Google Reader. Until now I’ve relied on Byline as my Google Reader client on the iPhone but I was disappointed by the sync speed on Byline. it could take ages to sync feeds which was pretty frustrating. I tried Reeder as the sync speeds were allegedly a lot [...]

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Hans Rosling and Gapminder


Posted by Ian on 29 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment


One of my favourite TED video’s is by Hans Rosling. He makes statistics interesting and his presentation style is superb. His full set of TED video’s can be found here but of more interest is GapMinder. Gapminder is a non-profit organisation founded by Rosling and his daughter which developed the software used in his video’s, [...]

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