Technology Blog

Ammat Consulting's Neil Thompson writes a regular technology blog, Spoken Like a Geek. The following are the latest entries:

• Sony Reader ( 15 Feb 2010 )
  So I have joined the ranks of people that are ebook readers only in my case not Amazon’s Kindle but Sony’s Pocket Reader – you can see it in the picture on the left on the top of the pile showing MacBook, Netbook, eBook (can you see what I have done there?). Anyway rather than [...]

• Clipping to Evernote from iPhone Safari Browser ( 17 Jan 2010 )
  One of my favourite tools is Evernote, the note taking application. I regularly find snippets of information on the internet that I want to retain and come back to later. Evernote provides a number of tools that sit in the browser allowing you to clip directly to your account. This is enormously helpful and [...]

• Rule 1: Don’t Call Your Product “Unbreakable” If It Is Not ( 12 Jan 2010 )
  My advice is never give a live demonstration if you can possibly help it and never, never, never claim a property that the product doesn’t actually possess. Advice that Sonim would have done well to have heeded before handing over their “unbreakable” mobile phone to a reporter from the BBC. The reporter, Dan Simmons, [...]