Apparently, many of the standard iPhone apps which were going to be including within the base install of the iPad operating system are no longer going to be included. This is due to the simple reason that when scaled up to the larger, higher resolution screen of the iPad, the iPhone apps are described as looking and [...]

So, it turns out that the PlayStation 3 problem (or PlayStation 3 ‘blackout’ as it has come to be known) on the 1st of March 2010 was resolved on the turn of midnight on the same day. To resolve this issue, it turns out Sony did… nothing. As assumed by many PlayStation 3 users, the [...]

Latest info on PlayStation Network Status – So, it turns out the Sony PlayStation 3 issues today (1st March 2010) are becoming quite a huge issue, I have seen many many news articles on the web and have heard this issue reported many times on various BBC radio stations already. Having got home recently and [...]

I do not often post about my gaming habits. I do not play games as often as I used to, by any means. However, I do have a PlayStation 3 and found today’s story about leap year issues very interesting. It seems that the PlayStation 3, the original – not the slim version, is programmed [...]

I’m quite highly anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS – Google’s net book and appliance cloud operating system. There are a few main reasons behind this. Simplicity and Openness Note that I combine the two here. It is very important that both software user friendliness is combined with the nature of free and open source software to prevent [...]

Some people think of search engine optimisation as being strictly building links and content, and that was very much the case before the advent of microblogging and social networking. Now being social is very important for search engine optimisation. Using social networking, social bookmarking and other such sites can really help boost your traffic, both [...]

Like my pun? I know, I know. It is ingenius. What is Google Buzz? Google Buzz is a new social networking venture from the almighty search engine. It is designed to integrate well with their webmail service Gmail. Google have dipped their toes in the social networking marketplace before with services like Orkut and Google Friend Connect. [...]

An SQL check constraint is used and designed in the schema of a database table to restrict the range of values that can be entered into a specific field. In many experienced, they are very rarely used. However, these simple checks, entered at the time of database table creation, can provide additional safe guards against [...]

I recently wrote an article on the company blog regarding the Apple iPad and its potential effect on the mobile web. “The release of Apple’s ever popular smartphone, the iPhone, back in mid 2007 caused a huge development spike in websites and dynamic web applications designed the mobile devices. Of course, the vast majority of [...]

This is just a quick post to announce the recent start of one of my recent open source projects, Contacular. I have been building up Contacular’s overall feature set over the past week, having made the initial release on the 25th of January 2010. I now believe it is worthy of a post here, based [...]