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So Marty comes to me recently and says he needs a new phone. No longer satisfied with his relatively new Nokia e71 (Hey Nokia, come on out of the 90′s, I’m sorry – but Symbian is dead) he wanted my recommendation for a smartphone. Naturally my recommendation was – “Buy Apple – that would be [...]
I’ve finally found the droid I’ve being looking for. My endless quest for portable sound quality has officially come to end thanks to the HHB DRM85. I talked about the Zoom H2 a while back. It’s a good voice or music recorder – a real good recorder – but it doesn’t suit my needs for [...]
Here’s yet another function that will insert Google’s Adsense into your WordPress post specified by WordPress shortcode. It’s very simple and similar code is widely published already on many blogs… but it is very handy. One notable advantage of using shortcode as opposed to other methods is that shortcode will allow authors to specify their [...]
I purchased a Zoom H2 audio recorder about a year ago as an entry level portable podcasting recorder that I could also both for podcasting and to record my music. I was initially happy with the performance of the unit, but as I’ve become far more discerning and critical, I’ve found that the unit falls [...]
While interviewing a Jetstar Social Media employee last week, they let it slip that the airline would be launching iPads as an IFE alternative with avionics supplier BlueBox. We talked about it only briefly before I was sworn to secrecy. The conversation did, however, inspire my last post. Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Australia’s low [...]
I’ve refrained from the iPad IFE debate for as long as I can. The question many people are asking at the moment is whether the iPad will replace existing integrated IFE (In-Flight Entertainment) systems as the entertainment platform of choice for cabin consumers. To me, it’s like suggesting iPods will put an end to in-car [...]
After just having (finally) upgraded to Windows 7, I’ve come across a number of issues that aren’t necessarily typical from a Windows machine. This is the first. I normally run a batch file to patch the hosts file on various machines. On Windows 7, it had no effect – despite the fact that I had [...]
Ok, so if you’ve read some of what I’ve written in the past, you’ll know I’m not actually pro-Apple. Let’s get that right out in front, so we can move on with what I want to say. Because what I want to talk about is a recent Apple tech support query which was … downright [...]
I have a confession to make. For some time now I’ve been indulging in an illicit, subversive, un-seemly behaviour – very much out of keeping with my persona and belief system as an IT hip type person (did I just use the word hip? Sorry, must be stress/guilt). I’ve been doing this despite having a [...]
You would have be living under a rock if you weren’t familiar with services that truncate long URL’s into shorter, more manageable links. For those of you that don’t know what they are, they take a loooong URL and shorten them down to fewer characters so they can be more easily managed for dissemination or [...]
The RCA Airnergy is the kind of product you expect to be an elaborate April fool’s joke. The Airnergy is able to convert Wi-Fi signals into DC power sufficient enough to charge most gadgets – at this time using mobile phone batteries and handheld devices as an example. The company claims that the enclosure above [...]
Marty has been involved with online application development for a number of years and has worked with large scale applications both as a coder and project manager. He is currently actively contributing to 7 blogs and maintains over 300 websites. 
Ken has been developing software solutions and managing IT projects for over 20 years. Ken has a computer science degree and, although his focus was previously on Windows based software, his focus is now on blogging and other online projects.
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