Monthly Archives: August 2010

Leo Laporte’s “Buzz Sore!”

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If you stopped using one of your main social media platforms for a couple of weeks, how many people would notice? Ten, twenty – Maybe a hundred? OK, what if you were Leo Laporte, one of the best known and most respected people in your field with hundreds of thousands of followers and fans?

The answer might surprise you!

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Google Wave’s demise: How to screw up a great product!

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Ask any Google Wave user and they will confirm that Wave is a very useful tool for working in collaboration on projects. It’s powerful, fast and has a host of superb features. So, why did Google announce yesterday that they were ceasing development of Google Wave?

The simple answer from Google, was that “we have not seen the level of adoption we would have liked.” In other words, it attracted very few regular users…

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iPhone jailbreak – It’s legal, it’s easy, it works…kind of!

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Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad? Well, the good news is that it’s now legal; since last month’s US Copyright ruling. Better still, a new app claims to make it super easy to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad too.

So, a legal and easy way to reliably jailbreak your devices and free them from the bullshit DRM that has driven users nuts for years – right?

Err, no, not exactly!

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