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Ubuntu 10.10 beta
I’ve been running Ubuntu on most of my PCs for about three years now, and have been far happier with their performance than I ever was under Windows. The only real problem I’ve had is that as part of my job reviewing and evaluating hardware, I tend to use quite a lot of high end…
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Want this: Viewsonic launches tablet at IFA
As happy as I’ve been with my iPhone 3GS, I’ll never buy an iPad or another iPhone. It’s the obvious reasons, really – the inability of iOS to support decent multitasking, the walled garden of the App Store, the lack of Flash support, the general attitude of Apple in the wake of antennagate… Don’t get…
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Cellphone microscopes to go on trial in Africa
Yesterday Engadget carried a link about attaching an SLR-lens to an iPhone 4, but this is even cooler. An internally illuminated microscope that sticks over any cellphone camera. According to Wireless Design Online, it’s been designed at UCLA with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and is being used in field trials somewhere…
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New toy
As an aside, I forgot my camera on Monday and saw this on special offer in duty free. I’ve been after one for month’s – the size and image quality makes the GF1 an amazing tool for journalism. Of course, the irony is that this shot was taken with the rubbish phone cam. I should,…
