Nic Wise

Yesterday, FreeAgent announced that they have integrated with Barclays, so your bank transactions are auto-loaded into FreeAgent. This is a huge step, which would cut out one of the few reasons why I log into the bank (if I used Barclays - HSBC next,

As might be abundantly obvious, I use and love the Xamarin tools for mobile development - mostly MonoTouch, which I've used for all my apps, but also Mono for Android. They are fantastic tools, backed up by fantastic support and an amazing community. Xamarin

These panoramics were taken with AutoStitch on the iPhone 4S. No other retouching. All link to full sized versions. Captions link to Google Maps. Kaiteriteri Awaroa Awaroa

4 days in the US. 21 days in New Zealand. 6 flights (2 business class!). 4 days at Awaroa. Lots of coffee. A fair bit a cider. Lots of sun (and some rain). One small horse with sore feet. Lots of fun. [gallery link=

Amazon dropped off a new backup drive today, so I thought I'd share my backup "strategy", because you should be backing up, kinda like you should be flossing your teeth. These days, especially if you have a Mac, it's so easy that

From the New York Times For Mr. Cook, the focus on Asia “came down to two things,” said one former high-ranking Apple executive. Factories in Asia “can scale up and down faster” and “Asian supply chains have surpassed what’s in the U.S.

TL;DR: Netflix (UK) is nice, but it's mindless TV without the schedule. We'll keep it, but mostly for the cost-vrs-iTunes aspect. Netflix was released in the UK this week, and unsurprisingly, I signed up right away. For £6/month, it's a remarkably good

OK, I'm going to try REALLY hard to not rant against Starbucks "coffee", because while I will not drink it except in desperation, I know a lot of people will, and I'd rather not judge you based on your caffeine consumption habits.

Marco Arment brilliantly puts into words what I think about open plan offices and headphones. (about 20 mins in) I really enjoy being in the headphones, being in the closed off environment, where I can block out noise distractions..... (at tumbler) if I wasn't

Ah yes. Back to the (semi) technical topics. On the site we are working on, we serve everything except the HTML (via Umbraco) from a CDN. Littered throughout the code and references like: {{codeclock}} " /> {{/codeblock}} .. but for CSS, JS and any images we have.

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Leonie is up in Scotland - Glencoe - doing Bruce Percy's Scotland photographic workshop. As it's very much not London, I'm tagging along, and doing some work up here while she's off freezing her arse off learning new tricks. We headed up on the

First up, I realise this is pointless, but it's been pissing me off for ages. [Update: this is now in Apple's bug system as BugID: 10469092] I have fairly large fingers. They are not huge, but they are not dainty lady-hipster-fingers, either. Most things

With Leonie away for a week in Mexico, I got a lot of back-dated bugs and little fixes done on both of these apps. Nearest Bus was the first to get an update. [AppStore] If you tap on the bus you are interested in,

Recently, on the MonoTouch list, there have been a lot of questions around things which, for me, are fairly basic, including UITabController MonoTouch.Dialog and UITableViews Location awareness GC issues I thought a good way to try to help people would be to release

The latest release of Nearest Bus was approved by Apple a few days ago, and is now available in the AppStore. This release includes Favourites, which allows you to mark a stop as a favourite, and if you are within 2km of the stop,

I can't actually tell if this is fake or real. Obviously, the pre and post roll bits are (Dharma Initiative etc), but I think the middle might be real :) Either way, brilliant, esp as Leonie uses an SX-70 a lot. http://vimeo.com/14165062

So reports have it that the RIM/Blackberry issue which has taken Blackberries worldwide out of service, was down to "unidentified technical debt". According to software experts at CAST, the reason for the problem is down to ‘unidentified technical debt’.  While not

My latest iPhone app is now available in the AppStore: Nearest Bus: Nearest Bus is a simple application to answer one question: Where is my nearest bus? Nearest Bus uses the TfL Countdown prediction service to show you when the next bus is coming

Righto, everyone else is doing it... so why not :)* Mac Rumours: One. Two. Three. Cult of Mac: One. All things D. So, being I have an arehole like everyone else (and opinions are like areholes), here's my take. All this is sourced from sources

This announcement from Sony today looks interesting Furthermore, Sony's expecting new games and apps to be available for the PlayStation Suite in spring, which means willing C# developers will be busy over the next few months should they wish to deploy their software across

Here's my thoughts, in quick bullet point format: It will be huge. It's Windows, FFS. Windows 7 is brilliant, on the desktop, and MS was so badly burnt with Vista, they will not let it go backwards, so I'd expect Windows 8 to be

It's not hard, at my age, to remember Chernobyl. Even from the deep south (New Zealand), it was a major incident, with a radioactive cloud flowing over western Europe. Nothing this major has happened since - tho the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster after the

Not much to say about this - 1.6.1 is out, which was an expedited fix (thanks, Apple!) for the issues described here. I'm not happy this happened, as I take a lot of pride in the quality of my software, and I've

Apple surprised me by approving the latest mobileAgent in around 24 hours. So surprised, that I've not yet updated the website! [And, of course, there was a bug in the Invoice part. Details are here, and the update - v1.6.1 - is