In a new series in which the Shot Of Jaq team highlight the top ten of a given category, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge give Android the Perfect 10 treatment, highlighting their fave apps, many of which you may have never used.
Of course, we are the very start of the conversation, and this is a great opportunity for the Shot Of Jaq community to come together to share what your fave apps are. Do share your recommendations in the shot comments!
The world is being rocked by mobile Internet via 3G. Despite such technological revelations, it has taken Linux a little longer to catch up. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge talk about whether the free desktop is really ready for the mobile Internet revolution, and whether we should be dossing around with tethering or just bite the bullet and buy a USB dongle (assuming the damn thing works).
Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? What is your experience of mobile Internet? Have you managed to get 3G dongles working well under Linux? Do you find tethering just works for you? What do you feel the Linux desktop still needs to make the mobile experience really rock our worlds?
We often celebrate multiple languages as one of the many outputs of the Open Source methodology. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore how the translations community works and ask how effective it currently is, and how effective it could be.
Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you think the translations community could be improved? Do you think we should care about translations? Have you got any experience or stories that you want to share about translating software? Do you think the commercial approach to translations is better or worse?
Yesterday in a feat of great pomp and ceremony the mighty Google announced Google TV; their entrance into the consumer TV market. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge take the announcement apart, assess what it means for the industry, what it means for Google, and whether Google TV will be more of a GMail (epic) or a Google Buzz (fail).
Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you think Google TV sounds like a compelling product? What does this mean for the cable providers? Do you think that Android can really cater to TV apps? Do you think that Google are overstretching themselves?
Talking over the internet isn’t new. But there is a new kid on the block: Mumble, a group voice chat system. What can it do for us that we don’t currently have? Will we see Mumble displace Skype or IRC? Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge discuss the chat client and new ways of working that it might give our community.
If you’ve used Mumble, or things like it, join the conversation! Tell us how you think we could be better with tools like this!
RSI is a growing problem in the tech community. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge talk about whether it’s given the importance that it deserves and how to alleviate the problems so you can be a happy hacker. Join the conversation and tell us how you avoid RSI, and whether you’ve ever had problems with it?
Who do you need in a dream software team? If you had enough money to set up a software startup, would you spend it all on developers? How important is management and sales and marketing and HR? Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge look at which parts of a company are the most important, and what to do if you win the lottery. Join the conversation to tell us what you think!
We have a wide variety of professions represented across the Shot Of Jaq community. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge talk about their typical work days, covering the kind of work, tools and approaches involved with the hope of the community sharing your typical work days too.
Remember, Shot Of Jaq is all about the conversation, so do share with us what your typical work day is. What do you do? What tools and approaches do you use? How much time on the phone are you? How crazy is your INBOX? How do you manage your work?
Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore Jono’s Severed Fifth project and the different lessons learned in trying to bring Creative Commons music to the world.
Of course, we are the very start of the discussion! What do you think? Do you think Creative Commons artists can be successful? How do you think this intersects with the traditional music industry? Do you feel that promotion or production is more important? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…
In a world filled with seemingly endless network bandwidth, ultra-thin computers, and with the recent banishing to history of the floppy disc, is there really a need for physical media any more? Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore what physical media means for us, the digital divide, and whether we need those physical discs any more.
We are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do we still need physical media? Do you still use floppies, zip drives, or tapes? Do you use USB pendrives? Do you think getting rid of physical media will increase the physical divide? Would we ever look back in anger? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…
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