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Tag Archives: Google
Why do Spotify penalise their UK customers?
I love music, but gave up buying CDs years ago, when I decided I already owned enough possessions for a lifetime. I still don’t know how to get rid of my old vinyl collection and I don’t want to clutter … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Personal
Tagged Chromecast, Google, Google Play Access, music streaming, price discrimination, Spotify, UK price
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Almost perfect?
When I read a recent article announcing Google’s claim of achieving “almost perfect language translation”, it reminded me of a story our school teacher told us, many years ago. Apparently, computer scientists wrote an application to translate between English and … Continue reading
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Tagged automatic, automation, English, Google, language, linguistic, translate, translation
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Time for an HTML revolution
When I worked in the studio and dark room of a local newspaper, one of my first tasks was copy mark-up. This was before the days of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), so you had to quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged app inventor, Apple, code, coding, desktop publishing, DTP, Google, HTML, phototypesetting, typeset, WYSIWYG, Xcode
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Google want the internet to be more open. They could help.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin complains to The Guardian today that oppressive governments, along with the ‘walled gardens’ of Facebook and Apple, pose a threat to the openness of the internet and consequently to innovation. While he makes a serious point I … Continue reading
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