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 [...]

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 [...]

It turns out that Avatar, the hugely successful science fiction epic film from James Cameron, was rendered using a huge Ubuntu rendering server farm, at Weta Digital. The Weta Digital server farm or ‘rendering wall’, as they call it, has a disk array capable of storing roughly 2 petabytes of data in total. The individual servers are [...]

Google, who brought forward the specifics of the ‘do no evil’ ideology within consumer visible software, is refusing to host an open-source project due to slight, almost humorous, modifications to its license, denying ‘evil’ use of the licensed software. Douglas Crockford selected the MIT license for his JSMin program to reduce JavaScript code syntax in such a way to make it [...]

Waking up this morning, I discovered the pond at my house had frozen solid. The temperature in the morning was between -3 and -2 degrees Celsius and was ~ -5 degrees Celsius really damn cold overnight. Glad I got my new winter coat recently…

Why is it that computers in TV dramas and science fiction have the magical ability to enhance any photograph? To make good television, that’s why.