I was doing some work administering MySQL databases earlier in the week. I haven’t done much with MySQL in over half a year since we use Postgres as the backend for phuser.com, needless to say I’d forgotten a lot of the commands! Here are a few MySQL tips which I’m putting up here for my [...]
Yesterday I was ranting about MySpace, in particular how their music downloads don’t actually let you download the song. While I’m at it I’ve got another mySpace gripe I’d like to get of my chest…
MySpace lets people include lots of things on their profiles such as songs, video’s, flash animations, etc. Due to this lots [...]
Today like most days I got added as a “friend” by a band on mySpace. Surprisingly the band was quite good and some of their tracks were available to download from their mySpace page, great!
When I clicked on the download track link the mp3 actually gets streamed in your browser using quicktime. It is not [...]
So there’s been some banter on this blog about the “Mac vs PC” advert spoofs over on YouTube. I’ve watched a few of them and this Wii VS PS3 spoof is current favorite. Enjoy!
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Apple has released some UK only adverts which feature the comedy duo Michelle and Web from the peek show. These adverts are a reworking of their Americans ones which feature one character as a PC; who is slightly uptight, uncool has bad hair and a bad suit. The Mac character on the other hand is [...]
Tech Superstars is a new segment that I’ll be running. In it I will be profiling individuals that have made an important contribution to the fields of Computer Science or technology. Readers of my Peteamania blog will know I love facts, I’m sure you’ll be delighted to hear my Tech Superstar Profiles will contain facts [...]
One of the popular facilities on phuser.com is the ability to create polls. Once a poll has been created it can be sent to people by SMS or Email. The recipients can reply with their choice of answer and a optional comment using SMS, Email or phuser web interface, lovely!
Handling of emails replies has easy [...]
Apple Overlord Steve Jobs has also been getting his bearded face in the papers because he’s finally managed to settle the legal dispute between Apple Computers (now just Apple) and the Beatles owned Apple records. Interestedly Apple is now able to sell iPods preloaded with music. iPod will be the New CD is an interesting [...]
There has been much discussion in the media this week about DRM (Digital Rights Management) and downloadable music. Apple Overlord Steve Jobs has done a U-turn and now decided that he doesn’t like DRM, Jobs has told the press that the only reason songs downloaded from his iTunes store are locked with DRM is because [...]
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