Alex Knight

Amazon Is Building A Hardware And Services Empire

It's incredible to reflect on Amazon's history as a once strictly online retailer, and think one day they would get into the web services business. It was ten years ago in 2002 when Amazon Web Services was launched — that's certainly quite a long time

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Thomas Brand And I Talk About Old Things

This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Thomas Brand, of Egg Freckles fame. We reminisced about passed technologies, current technology, trends in OS X, and even Linux. Alex Knight: What is it about old technology that some people such as yourself seem to cling to it so strongly?

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Apple Ships Podcasts with iCloud Syncing Support

When Apple shipped the first version of their own Podcasts app a few months back, I lambasted it for its strange reel-to-reel tape deck skeuomorphic design. There were many problems with the app though other than just the design, such as: sluggish performance, stability, and no option to auto-download new

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Reflecting on August

I'm sitting at my computer on a very rainy Sunday. The summer seems to have come to a close and fall is encroaching quickly. August was a relatively quiet month as far as big announcements in the technology sector. That doesn't mean it wasn't

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Microsoft's Core Problem

The Nokia Lumia 920 has been announced, and it will ship with Windows Phone 8. Everything I’ve read and heard so far about the operating system itself sounds great, and it seems like it might do for Microsoft what Android 4.1 did for Google — continued refinement and filling

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Games I'm Playing This Week

I've been trying to get back into iOS gaming lately. I found a few good ones which fall into different categories, so I thought I would share them. * Galaxy on Fire 2HD * ORC Vengeance * Flip's Escape * Random Heroes * Dead Trigger * RealMyst The most visually impressive game

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Using Buffer to Cross Post Between App.net And Twitter

Over a year ago, I sung praises about Buffer. If you’re as of yet unfamiliar with this, it’s a web app that allows you to schedule specific times when you want to post to your favourite social networks. More specifically, you can keep on writing without fear of

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I Wasn't Always A Mac User

I wasn’t always a Mac user. Back in the late 90s, I remember being a pretty serious PC gamer. I used to rebuild my computer once a year because I always lusted after the latest Intel processors and Nvidia GPUs. Whilst many people I knew played Starcraft, I was

A Week on A Jailbroken iPhone

I’ve never had the predilection to jailbreak my iPhone, up until recently that is. Lurking at the forefront of my mind were many questions, which led to apprehension, which led to me giving up on the idea. My mind recently changed, and there are a few factors that contributed

A Review of Fever

For the past several months, I’ve been searching for alternative RSS syncing solutions that didn’t rely on the Google Reader API. For a brief period of time, I grew weary of searching and went back to using my faithful companion -- NetNewsWire, eschewing the  syncing aspect  in favour