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Google Public DNS


Posted by admin on 07 Dec 2009 / 0 Comment


Google made a big splash last week when it announced Google Public DNS. By changing your DNS settings on your Mac, PC or router you can take advantage of Google’s DNS service and speed up your internet experience. That’s the theory but does it work? First off, what is DNS? DNS takes the meaningful domain [...]

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Spotify Launches Offline Mode


Posted by Ian on 01 Oct 2009 / 0 Comment


Spotify launched a new feature today to it’s desktop client – Offline Mode. Premium users selecting a playlist will now have the ability to click an ‘Available offline’ button which will download the tracks locally for playback when not connected to the internet. I tried the service this afternoon and the results can be seen [...]

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Snow Leopard Icons


Posted by admin on 13 Sep 2009 / 2 Comments


Snow Leopard makes it really easy to view large icons, all the way up to 512 x 512. It’s at this size you realise how much effort the icon designers go to in their icon’s. This isn’t just for the default Apple applications but third party too. Inspired by this post at Cult of Mac [...]

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Spotify iPhone App


Posted by Ian on 07 Sep 2009 / 5 Comments


Today was the day that Spotify finally landed on the iPhone. Many thought that when Spotify announced they had submitted an app to Apple that they had no chance of getting it approved. The many were wrong. I fired up the Appstore this morning, saw the app and thought I need to try this. So [...]

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iPhone 3GS Review


Posted by Ian on 28 Jun 2009 / 4 Comments


It’s more than a week since the iPhone 3GS launch so it’s high time to post up a review. Most readers are well aware of the iPhone 3G so I’ll focus on the differences between the two and also on some niggles that I still have with the iPhone. The S in 3GS stands for [...]

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So you want an iPhone 3G S


Posted by Ian on 17 Jun 2009 / 10 Comments


After last weeks iPhone 3G S announcement there has been a lot of heat, not so much around the product itself, but around the costs involved in purchasing one. This is especially true in the UK, where the cost of the handset and the upgrade costs have sparked a lot of controversy. Firstly, the iPhone [...]

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