June 2010
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pebble.tunes (29/06/10)
We’re music fans in the pebble office, and there’s a fair mix of tastes. Thanks to our Apple Airport Express, Spotify and Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba we can avoid squabbles and pass around control of the office sound system to share our choice of tunes. Here’s what we’ve been listening to this week:
Caravan Palace - Jolie Coquine
There’s a swing revival on the horizon,...
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iPhone 4 vs Nokia 1200 Show Down
For some years my better half has resisted all temptation of moving away from her tried and tested comms solution: a Nokia 1200. The phone may not look particularly jaw dropping, but it does offer some benefits. I’ve tried and failed to impress her with the previous iPhone incarnations, being met each time with unimpressed stares as I reel off the updated feature set after each keynote...
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Aspirations (thoughts from a 37signals podcast)
Just listened to a David Heinemeier Hansson talk on the 37signals podcast about “A Secret to Making Money” and generally, apart from feeling like I was being shouted at for 20 minutes, I thought it was a great listen.
The podcast was taken from the Start Up School in 2008, which is a school for programmers and software engineers to learn about starting up. Along with 37signals there...
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Great service from Moo.com
How many times have your ordered 200-500 business cards only to see about 30 of them used before wanting to change them again?! Well, that has happened to us a few times so we decided to try Moo. We had heard good things about the quality and the fact that you can buy 50 laminated cards for only £12.99 is amazing. That beats the £200 we spent for the last print run! (90% of those cards are now...
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iPhone 4 Tariffs
UPDATE 3: Tesco have now entered the race, the day before launch. They’re offering simplified but very competitive pricing with their 12 month contracts.
UPDATE 2: Vodafone have now revealed their pricing, which differs from what had previously been leaked. Our pricing guide has been updated accordingly.
UPDATE: O2 have just released their handset pricing, which goes against the grain and...
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New Mac Mini
A little later than anticipated, but another of our WWDC predictions has come true. Today Apple updated their store, bringing us pre-orders for the iPhone 4 as well as a brand new Mac Mini.
The most visible update to the device is it’s new unibody enclosure - machined from a single piece of aluminium, much like its Macbook Pro sibling. Looking at the rear of the case we find 4 USB ports,...
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You are the designer
New websites and tools for browsers are showing that users have more control over design than ever.
With the release of Safari 5 Apple added a Reader feature that takes a web page and formats it for easy reading. This type of feature has been around for a while in Chrome and Firefox via the Readability Extension (Chrome & Firefox) and gives users the option to reformat the page in a more...
iPhone 4
WWDC10 kicked off, as usual, with a cracking Keynote. As expected, we saw the launch of the iPhone 4 and the renamed software, iOS4. The phone itself is pretty much the same device that Gizmodo had its hands on a few months previously, leaving many with the guilty feeling of a kid that’s peeked at his Xmas gifts. Still, they pulled some surprises out of the box - here’s a quick...
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Small Business Accounts with FreeAgent
Starting in business is never the easiest thing - there are so many more aspects to making it work than simply plying your trade… accounting and finance being one of them.
Being able to accurately and quickly see where the money is coming from and where it is going is essential.
pebble.it started life using Excel! This very quickly got out of control as the number of transactions...
WWDC10 - pebble's predictions
The pebble.it team has a few predictions on what they expect Apple to be launching today at the opening Keynote to WWDC10:
iPhone HD/4G
Whilst the details are still largely speculative, it’s fairly certain that there will be a new phone announced today. Apple has suffered from some fairly major leaks this time round, so we’re fairly certain we’ll be seeing a new iPhone with...
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A week with the iPad: our Home screens
A week ago, the iPad was officially launched here in the UK. It was a long couple of months that we spent eyeing our American cousins’ tablet experiences with envy. During that period, pebble.it got to spend limited time with a few iPads, we even fixed a few problems, but it would be nothing like having our own…
Well, that time has finally come. Perhaps the most telling statistic is only 2...
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IE9 is still behind the times
Although it has gradually been loosing market share to competitors like Safari, Firefox and Chrome, Internet Explorer is still the dominant browser in many industries. For a long time web creatives have pushed Microsoft to improve support for web standards and to their credit they have been improving things.
A biased report
The Internet Explorer Team recently published a report of tests...
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So long and thanks for all the... iPads?
Life imitates art. Satire site, The Onion, published an article on the iPad by ‘Beepo The Dolphin’ back in March. Now researchers in Mexico are actually using the touch screen device to communicate with our aquatic friends.
Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference
The trademark black polo-neck and jeans appeared last night as Steve Jobs took the stage at the Wall Street Journal’s D8 conference last night. Fielding questions from hosts Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, as well as the attending audience, he spoke openly about the loss of the prototype iPhone 4G, the ‘war’ with Adobe over Flash and the origins of the iPhone and iPad [spoiler:...
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iPad for Business
Apple’s sleek, silver-backed iPad will be officially hitting European shores sometime towards the end of May. So where does the wonder-pad sit in the workplace, or to ask a more important question: how can you convince your boss that the iPad is a necessary business purchase?
Let’s first consider the OS. Since launch of Apple’s original iPhone, the iPhone OS has been extended to 2 further...