How long does it take for software to deteriorate? I ask because of an infuriating problem with my iPod Touch. I originally bought it because I was interested in developing apps for the iPhone. I did not have an iPhone at the time and XCode (the Apple development environment) did not have a useful simulator. [...]
I am in two minds about this. Just at the moment I am climbing the walls with frustration and fury. I have spent maybe two hours so far – one last night, another this morning – failing to get GAP to work properly. There is more than one GAP. Forget the clothes retailer, we are [...]
This is a fairly tangled tale. I first noticed it yesterday when I read a long article in the Sunday Times colour supplement (p33, 35, 37, 39 + photos pp30-31). Stuxnet is the first well-publicised cyber weapon. It was used in 2009 to inflict serious damage Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility – trashing about a [...]
My attitude towards Apple is distinctly ambivalent. In summary, it turned out that the internal hard disk in my 5 year-old desktop iMac was clapped out. When I eventually grasped that, fixing it proved bizarrely complicated. I was not impressed with the Genius Bar in the flagship Oxford Circus store in London. Also the more [...]
I have been trying to find out more about the supposedly wonderful encryption system used in the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) system (see the earlier March article, and a more recent article on its use in the recent riots). My scepticism is because encryption is notoriously tricky. Most software types think all you need is to [...]
