Posted on November 16th, 2009 by geofas
This week two events take place in London that I will cover live via twitter. If you’d like to follow the stream of updates from the areas that I cover, please follow @geekpub on twitter. In case you hadn’t heard about geekpub yet, it’s a little thing that I started in the summer this year to organise drinks amongst like-minded folks. The initiative is in the early stages, free, and open to anyone who likes to chat about gadget, technology, games, etc. For more info please visit http://geekpub.me.uk/ . Besides organising the little meetups I’ve also decided to do all the live microblogging under the geekpub name so as to separate it from the everyday updates under @geofas.
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Posted on October 24th, 2009 by geofas
I’m excited to report that a week’s worth (well about 25 hours in total) of research on work has come to fruition.
After having learned what I need to know about Amazon’s cloud computing web services EC2 & S3 I moved geofas.com over to the new architecture and it paid off. The site runs about twice as fast now which makes me very happy.
If you care to compare bring up http://blt.me.uk/ which on the previous web-host alongside http://geofas.com/ which is now running on Amazon EC2.
Later this year I’m going to post a how2 for setting up a wordpress powered blog on Amazon EC2 and move content over, a particular scenario that I believe has not been properly covered clearly in the blogosphere, so hopefully this may be of help to fellow bloggers.
Update: For cost reasons I’ve decided to go back to my original webhost since I had already paid there for 2 years of hosting.
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Posted on September 15th, 2009 by geofas
Now, I don’t know about you, but my mac power adapter gets quite warm when it happens to lie on carpet, bed or couch, not that that’s a surprise. Also these pop-out claps only help to organize the thin cord leading to the mac. Wouldn’t it be great to have a little gizmo that not only helps to keep the power adapter aired but also lets you organize the full length of the cables on both sides? Hit the Read more link to meet the solution, named “PowerCurl“.
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Posted on September 13th, 2009 by geofas
Call it a symptom of my having to work in a highly restrictive IT environment (I concur with this post btw.), but I feel myself drawn to the wide open spaces of working on cool things with smart people using wicked tools, preferably online. I did some research on the latter part and wanted to share it with you. Here is the “Getting Things Done Online” Special.
Hit the Read more link for a list and brief comparison of truly wicked online tools that can work as your catalyst for bringing cool things to life with smart people.
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by geofas
End of this month Google will open up Google Wave to non-developer users, 100,000 of them actually.
I’m looking forward to continue testing, what has great potential to become an email/IM and collaboration killer. I’ll especially enjoy experiencing to use the service on more responsive infrastructure. Google Wave started off to be a bit sluggish on the sandbox used for the beta.
What follows, you’ll only be able to see if you currently have access to the Google Wave Sandbox.
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Posted on August 24th, 2009 by geofas
Today is the day when Apple adds Snow Leopard to its online stores around the globe, and after testing 10.6 for a few months now I can highly recommend the upgrade, especially at the low low price of $29, or £25 (not sure how that currency conversion worked out!).
Tested on a 2008 13″ Unibody MacBook as well as the latest 2009 15″ Unibody MacBook Pro, the speed increase slightly different but equally significant and noticeable throughout the system, from start-up to any software you wish to use.
Add to that several UI changes to clean up the experience or make Expose even more useful, allowing cross-system drag’n'drop via the app icons on the dock, just to name one example.
The developer versions had a few kinks here and there but now in the final version these will all be sorted out.
Ludicrous speed, commander!
Are you sure, Sir?
Y..es, YES!
Pre-order now, shipping 28 August 2009. Enjoy. 
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US store link
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