Justin Hartman

Posts Tagged ‘Software’


Posted on July 11, 2008 - by

WordPress for the iPhone

This is the best news I’ve heard coming from the new iPhone Application store. WordPress made easy for iPhone users.

 

Posted on September 20, 2007 - by

What IPTV should look like in South Africa

This week has been a week of reviews and I figured why stop now. With the recent announcement of Pay TV operators in South Africa I thought it would be best to look at IPTV in the form of Joost and what local operators can learn from them.

Joost can best be described as a blend of traditional and Internet TV in one user-friendly desktop application and as Joost’s website explains:

“It’s free TV, with the choice to watch alone or with friends. Joost is packed with internet tools such as instant messaging and channel chat, allowing people to really share the TV experience……. Joost isn’t just video on the internet – it’s the next generation of television for viewers, content owners and advertisers everywhere.”

The desktop application, available for PC or Mac, is really an experience to behold. It’s simple, easy to navigate and offers a huge set of features that really start to change your perception of what TV is meant to be.

Joost Interface

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Posted on September 17, 2007 - by

Parallels for Mac OS X

If you’ve owned a Mac before I’m almost positive that you’ve tried some kind of virtualisation software before. Be it Microsoft’s Virtual PC or Apple’s Boot Camp neither have really solved the great need to run Windows applications on a Apple Mac machine.

Most Mac owners actually couldn’t be bothered with Virtual machines on the stable and powerful OS X operating system but at The Times we’ve been given some licenses of SWSoft’s Parallels so that we can run some Windows-only software and eliminate the need to have a PC sitting on our desk in addition to the nifty MacBook Pro most of us have.

As with most virtualisation products I’m sceptical because this normally equates to a slow Mac computer and many system crashes. My experience of virtualisation is that there simply isn’t enough memory allocated to a virtual machine and after a short period of time the virtual machine (i.e. Windows) becomes unusable. Parallels however is different.

The first noticeable difference is the quick install of Windows XP. Normally this can take many hours however within 35 minutes I had Windows XP installed and working.

Parallels

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