the Technology Affinity blog

Live coverage of Symbian Expo and Eurogamer Expo this week

geofas — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:35:47 +0000

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 [...]

We’ve moved! geofas.com now runs on Amazon EC2.

geofas — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:28:52 +0000

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 [...]

PowerCurl: Salvation for hot Mac power adapters with long cables

geofas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:08:38 +0000

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 [...]