Since Readability was available for the iPad it has raised nothing but controversy. Their business model has been criticised as well the applications’ user experience. I have been using it since it was available and I quite like the application. However, there is something that is holding me back from fully embracing it and I keep [...]

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In recent years IP SANs have become increasingly more pervasive in enterprise and SMB environments.  IP SANs enable the centralisation of storage and enable administrators to provide and manage scalable, fault-tolerant and redundant storage from a single access point. Several open source projects enable any startup to build their own IP SAN such as Openfiler, [...]

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Consumerisation of IT

by Irfan on October 17, 2011 · 0 comments

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Last Week’s Economist issue contained a series of articles on how technological innovation has shifted towards consumer technology. The argument generally was, that in the past innovation at the consumer space always lagged technological innovation at the government and military spaces. But that might be changing and might have already done so. Amazon offered cloud [...]

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The Promise of Siri

by Irfan on October 17, 2011 · 0 comments

in apple, iphone, siri

I finally got my hands on an iPhone 4S. I upgraded my iPhone 4 contract at the O2 Store in Cribbs Causeway here in Bristol on Saturday. Fortunately, I didn’t have to queue very long to get one! Before buying it, I headed off to the Apple Store to check Siri out. I was interested [...]

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Think Stats: Statistics and Probability for Programmers

August 28, 2011

Learning about Probability and Statistics in my opinion is as important, if not more, to learn than any programming paradigm out there. Programmers and computer scientists in general love to delve deep into software and computer systems. This often involves the analysis of lots of data, in order to make sense of the data, descriptive [...]

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Facebook: Please fix this!

August 27, 2011

Since the last few months someone or some people have trying to create a Facebook account using my gmail address. I have received countless “Welcome to Facebook” mails. Fortunately, Facebook does provide a mechanism form where you can block the creation of accounts using a specific emails address. The problem is… it doesn’t work. It [...]

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Why are most Twitter clients for the iPad just so bad?

June 18, 2011

Recently there is has been lots of innovation in App design for tablets. Apps like Qwiki, Flipboard, Zite, Pulse, Reedr have really figured out how to give a good user experience on a tablet. However, sadly, most twitter clients have not. Even iphone twitter clients like TweetBot are better than most iPad twitter clients as [...]

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How cloud computing has transformed the PC

May 13, 2011

Yesterday I faced one of the most dreaded events in a laptop users’ life: a sudden hard disk crash. I used it in the morning and when I went to my lab and awoke the Macbook Pro from sleep I could hear strange mechanical noises and it failed to boot.However unlike in the past when [...]

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Increase Loopback devices in Ubuntu

September 29, 2010

I’ve been using a lot of VMs recently. By default the number of loopback devices set in Ubuntu is just 8. So if you want to mount 10 VM disks, your out of luck. An easy way I’v found to increase loopback devices is: edit /etc/modprobe.d/options and enter the line (replace n, for the number [...]

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Apple To Dominate Tablet Market Through 2012, iSuppli Says

August 25, 2010

I just came across this analysis. One statement that stands out to be me is:“While Alexander reports that rivals are developing products that match or exceed the iPad’s hardware specs, she contends that it is “unlikely that any of the competitors will be able to equal the overall performance experience of the iPad.” “The fact [...]

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