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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]