Elliot Jay Stock is moving from Paypal, and encourages others to follow suit : If PayPal want to hold your money, they can, and they will. A freeze on your account means you absolutely cannot get at your own money, and even if you eventually do, it will only be after a hefty delay and [...]

Paul Miller sums up the differences between his (and coincidentally my) Facebook and Twitter usage : I’m often asked if I’ve lost touch with a lot of friends and family since I’ve left the internet. “Not really,” I say. I was never much of a “Facebook guy,” I explain, and I talk to my mom on [...]

Microsoft have unveiled their new logo, which bears resemblance to the blocky (previously Metro) aesthetic that they’ve been incorporating into all of their products. I think the logo is fantastic. It’s clear, representative of the work that they do, products that they make. It has hints of this branding concept, that was created a few months ago, which I think is great [...]

The open, publicly backed alternative to Twitter, App.net, has reached their goal of $500,000 with 38 hours left. The premise – Twitter, without ads, funded by people that will use it – is not a bad idea for people who are oposed to the closed nature that Twitter have seemed to adopt recently. It’s also recieved some [...]

One blogger. Thats all it takes it seems to trigger a whole industry to wake up to the fact that we are not secure.One piece of clever social engineering set of a series of events which had said blogger locked out of his Google Account, his Apple account, his Mac wiped, and his Twitter hacked [...]

I’ve never been entirely comfortable creating a place to write on my website that I use to advertise my work to prospective clients. I dont talk about design enough to warrant a blog on a site that displays my design services. This is where I’ll be posting now. So, what will be posted here? It’s [...]

I’ve been using my Retina Macbook for just under a week, and while I think its the best machine I’ve ever owned, It’s resulted  in some ways, my most unproductive of the summer. Yes, that could be partly due with having to configure a new machine, but it’s more than just being busy  with other [...]

From the comprehensive Ars Technica Mountain Lion review : The biggest threat to Apple’s success is not the company with the most innovative devices and OS (arguably, still Microsoft); it’s the one with the most powerful, successful suite of online services—Google. In this context, the Mac’s continued independence of character seems even more assured. Apple’s online platform [...]