Well this is a bit of a stupid move by the US Patent and Trademark Office. For some inexplicable reason they have approved a patent application from Apple to protect the shape of the iPad. For those unfamiliar with an iPad – it’s a rectangle with rounded corners. The patent does not cover any of …
I suppose I should start by making it clear I have no love for Apple’s products, marketing or business practices. So undoubtedly those biases will influence the tone of this post, and there is no point in denying that. I normally stay clear of trashing Apple because I have no real reason to do so – I just don’t …
Reporters Without Borders has released it’s 2012 Enemies of the Internet Report. It’s a veritable who’s who of failed former or current communist states, military dictatorships and hard line theocratic states. An alarming change is the appearance of a few western democratic nations. The list is spilt into two, with the worst offenders being labelled as ‘Enemies of the …
Don’t be evil. That very simple sentence is the first few words of Google’s code of conduct, an informal company motto first used by Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmail. Over the last week, a growing tide of criticism of Google’s latest changes to it’s privacy policy has challenged that very concept. Google claims that its latest policy simplifies things for its users, …
In case you somehow missed it yesterday, over 700 websites including Wikipedia, Google and WordPress protested against two bills due to come up in front of the US Congress. Wikipedia and WordPress blocked access to all of it’s pages for 24 hours, while Google and many others had prominent messages on their sites denouncing SOPA …
I’ve been playing about with a fun piece of software called IOGraphica. All it does is track your mouse movements as you use your computer and creates an image based on those movements. Like all great software it is both fantastically simple and effortlessly brilliant. As the mouse moves across the screen it draws a …
