The Chicken Coop

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stella Duffy sums it up very well here, and here (same article, on her blog and public address). My reply from PA System is below. When we first arrived in London, we live

Leonie and I just had a lovely weekend in Antwerp with Di. I'll let Leonie show you what it looked like thru her lens, but one of the best places (aside from Di's

I've put up a quick "open letter" type post for London Bike App users, regarding the data quality in the app (and in the Barclays Bike system in general) It's over

Apple have been their rather quick selves, and mobileAgent 1.5 is out. I was expecting it to take a lot longer, so I'm yet to change the website, however, here's a summary

Hurray! Apple has approved mobileAgent 1.4.3 today! New in this release: Contacts can be synced (one way) to the iPhone contacts. Expenses can now have various VAT levels set (auto, 0,

... with proper updated data (well, 3-5 mins out of date, vrs up to 20 or so for the current ones). London Bike App uses this feed now. The current version still works out

mobileAgent is out, in record time - Apple approved it within 24 hours of my submission. Thats almost unheard of! I'm not complaining tho - the quicker updates are out, the quicker I

Nearly 12 months ago, I looked at the original iPad and came to the conclusion that it really wasn't the computer for me. Since then - in November just before we went to

Yup, today is the day the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) get to decide how to vote in the next elections. [Update: this is also worth a read. Esp the H2G2 quote

So while I was lazing in a field in West Wales, Apple approved mobileAgent 1.4.1. The main new feature in this release is Receipt Capture. Receipt capture is very much like

Ceder the European Eagle Owl. Dunrobin Castle. He's about the size of a large cat. Balnakeil Bay Sandwood Bay Random Tarn. All pics are off the iPhone 4. Most are 10-15 shot panoramic,

First, a little disclaimer and statement of potential bias. I develop MobileAgent, which is a native iOS client for FreeAgent, a SaaS accounting package we use for Big Ted. I am also a

From Ben Kepes, Saas-space commentator (amongst other things). MobileAgent Makes Expense Reporting Fun (amongst other things): mobileAgent, a lovely little application that give iOS users the ability to do a bunch of their

Helveticards. Brilliant.

Apple have approved mobileAgent 1.4 today. It's the release I've wanted to do for a while, but until recently, not had the time (or working internet connection) to complete. The main new

"We steal all our vocabulary because our industry is new" - Marco Arment, Webstock, about 31:40 into the video. A friend found this in the BBC Tech section yesterday, and

What: Sennheiser HD448 Closed Headphones. How much: about 60 quid (Amazon). Why: I need to block out the office chatter, while also not forcing my co-workers to hear my music. Also, I need

I've been messing with this code for a couple of days, and finally got it working over the weekend. The problem was, when using an image taken on the iPhone, the image is

Since we got to London, I've had a fascination with the Tube. It's unlike anything in New Zealand: It's a train, and it's underground. NZ has a few trains (few being the operative