Open Office May Be for You

A friend of mine was asking me the other day if I could get here a copy of MS Office.  I pointed her to Open Office which at version 3 is well worth downloading if you do not have desktop application for editing.  Plus its free!!

Useful Links

• Download Open Office
• Youtube Overview

Bon Iver - When No Tips Go With The Music

iOS 5 Problems

All around the world all you can hear is the busy download of people downloading iOS5 and Blackberry users retrying their servers.  Such a sweet sound for Android owners.

500 Mhz

I was speaking to a friend last night and he told me that his laptop had 500 Mb of memory and he was very happy with it.  He explained further.

He did not

- Download anything
- Surf the net too much
- Wrote assignments on it
- Used it for light email
- Didn't engage in social media so didn't have any of the apps or other bloatware

And finally he said that it worked nice and fast for what he used it for.  He didn't need any techy tips to improve his PC Speed as basically he treated His machine as an island.

However for the most of us this isn't the case and even for the most cautious you can quickly bloat you memory usage and disk space in a very short time.  I have started using external memory to try and overcome this and I have a self imposed ban on downloading the next great application.  I have also migrated a lot of my work to the web using Google Docs and where possible do not save items locally but put it on the above external storage.

The more naïve user however can go on download sprees and this is to be avoided.  Think first what REAL use you can make of the tool or download before using .  Admittedly there are a lot of useful download but they are hugely outnumbered by a lot of useless crap.  So beware and go to the island.

Best App In A While

I use several Apple devices and have been frustrated for some time by the lack of a decent App for Facebook.  This is now corrected as of Oct 10th and the new app is really well designed and a huge step forward.  Good apps encourage you to use them and this one will have me on Facebook a lot more than in the past with its clean interface.  What amazes me is what took them so long.  Facebook is like a virus these days it is growing so fast and love it or hate it looks like it will continue to dominate for some time to come.

The End of Printing As We Know It?

Soon there will be mass migration of love to the new iPhone 4S and with it people will discover that in their hands now they have a very powerful device that is also a pretty powerful camera and video recorder.  If you look back even 5 years (an age in Internet and technology time) most entry level cameras and smartphones didn't even posses a fraction of this power.  As a result even more photos and video will now be taken and the knock on will be the online sharing through social media and online free and paid storage site like Flickr and  YouTube.

I have an iPad and now use it exclusively for showing everyone my photos online or occasionally on the local storage and haven't printed a phot in an age.  I think it makes solid sense to set up both a Flickr and a YouTube account for your media as it is free and always on.  I envisage with the iPhone 4S that I will take much more photos and share them much more.  The quality of my iPhone 3 is terrible and I literally have hundreds of sub standard photos.  

I have seen the quality of the existing iPhone 4 and with the new 8 megapixel camera I think that it will attract the 3X crowd.  I am now sure why someone with an existing iPhone 4 would want to make this upgrade and sign up for a plan that would tie to them to a contract with a possible iPhone 5 in 8-12 months then coming out.

What are you going to do?

iOS5 Impact on Bandwidth

There is a lof buzz now going around the upcoming iOS5 and the hlevel of interest in it.  These servers are bound to be completly overloaded once it becomes available and lifehacker are even showing how you can get hold of an early update of iOS5

iOS5 will change a lot of online behavior with regard to music and photos at a minimum and will pose question marks around a lot of poor broadband download capability as people share more and upload and download to different devices.

Expect lots of complaints as people who may not have uploaded significant file sizes in the past encounter poor bandwidth and download speeds.