Stuff Office Cat’s Diary – 04/10/12
Office Cat wonders how many of Facebook’s billion users are his future friends while sorting through the news slush pile
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Facebook has one billion users
Areas of life where Office Cat and Mark Zuckerberg differ: privacy settings, vegetarianism, favourite quotes, bank balance and opinion of what makes an acceptable social media mugshot. But he doffs his cap to the social media magnate on this occasion – Zuck’s chalked up a billion active users on Facebook. In his victory post, the goofy tycoon honours “the humanity of the people we serve.” Cats snubbed. Again. Tsk.
Source: Facebook
Office Cat thinks Libratone’s new Zipp AirPlay speaker is a pretty nifty looking piece of kit, but he’ll eat his mittens if it’s as tasty as the similarly-fashioned cake he was delivered the other day. Mind you, all that marzipan does muffle the sound a bit.
Pogoplug personal cloud launches in the UK
You can’t own a cloud, at least that’s Office Cat’s interpretation of property law. You can, however, now rent one from Pogoplug for a penny under twenty quid a year, which nets you 100GB of Amazon Glacier cloud storage plus local networked archiving on a Pogoplug cloud accelerator. And no, Office Cat has no idea whether you can own a glacier.
Source: Pogoplug
TomTom Navigation for Android
Good news for TomTom: that nice new Android app it was showing off at IFA has arrived at its destination, the Google Play Store. You can pick up the UK/Ireland package for just over £30, but Office Cat recommends you splash out the extra tenner for Western Europe and kiss goodbye to downloading maps on roaming data. Call it a money-back guarantee, eh?
Source: Google Play Store
Remote control cushion
In practical terms, Office Cat puts this remote control pillow right up there with the chocolate teapot. He’ll concede it’s much harder to lose a cushion down the back of the sofa than a standard remote, but there the benefits end. It does look pretty comfy, mind.
Source: Red5
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