It’s an annoying bug in Windows 7. The folder tree to the left of the Explorer view (present in Windows Explorer, the Save dialog box and elsewhere) does not have a horizontal scroll bar. So if, like me, you have a well-organised and deep hierarchy of folders to be explored, you’ll often find that the deeper folders disappear. Sure, you can drag the vertical divider to expand the tree’s view, but that unnecessarily constrains the main view. The bug has been around for quite some time. I don’t hold out much hope of anyone fixing it any time soon.
Screenshot of a typical Save As dialog in Windows 7
2010 has arrived, and with it comes the unleashing of the iPhone on new mobile networks. End users will be happy, for a while, until they experience the knock-on effect of skyrocketing data traffic. Mobile networks are being swamped. Unlike the networks in places like Japan (where real 3G has been around for a while), many western mobile infrastructures are still working through their transition to 3G (or even 4G) and are trying to make do with solutions developed in the pre-iPhone era. Back in March of last year we saw reports of AT&T being sued because of the poor iPhone experience on their network. The innovative device led to an unanticipated massive growth in mobile data usage. More recently, [click title to read more…]
Created (mainly) by the BBC during the 1970s, after 40 years of service, Teletext (AKA Ceefax) will start shutting down from tomorrow, 16 December, as the UK continues its move to digital TV and Internet-based services. In Ireland, the Teletext service from the national broadcaster (RTE) will continue to be offered via the existing analogue TV service and via emulation over the digital service.
Teletext is a broadcast service, so it doesn’t matter if there is one, or one million people connected. There’s not impact on service quality. Unlike the Web, which can suffer when servers are simultaneously hammered by eager users.
The biggest threat to the service is not technical, it is commercial. In the UK and many other [click title to read more…]
A picture of the new Google Nexus One was posted on the Web today. If you look carefully at the reflection on the screen, you’ll see that the picture was taken by what appears to be a white iPhone!