The technology blog of Neil Thompson
Greymatter on the move
I discovered another great thing about Greymatter today – it is BlackBerry compatible. This entry is being posted via my BlackBerry 7230 and will be submitted over GPRS.
This is a great feature and means that I will be able to post no matter where I am – like the States in two weeks time!
Text to your home phone
There have been a number of occasions when I have been out and about and would have found it useful to be able to text a landline phone. Well with a new service from BT, BTText it seems that you can.
The service allows you to both send and receive SMS messages from a home phone. [...]
AppSwing and Citrix
After 12 months of negotiations the company I work for, AppSwing, have pulled off something of a coup by receiving investment from Citrix – not bad for a company of seven employees! Read the full press release below:
AppSwing Limited Receives Strategic Investment from Citrix Systems
AppSwing Limited, a leading developer of mobility middleware solutions for extending [...]
Cool Gadget of the Week
How’s this for a neat gadget and a free one at that.
A colleague of mine recently returned from the Citrix Solutions Summit in Orlando and presented me with this 1.3 mega pixel camera that all the delegates were given. It’s about the size of a cassette tape (if you remember such things!) and is pretty [...]
Extending Greymatter
This site is built using the content management system, Greymatter, of which I have written previously. The admin pages for Greymatter are great but for a novice offers little easy control over the look and feel of entries. This is where a very neat little control, HTMLArea comes in. This is a free control that [...]
Can your iPod do this?
As already stated elsewhere I am getting back into doing my family history fuelled by my wifes new years resolution. Even better I have now found a way of combining the search for my ancestors with my love for my mp3 player! Strange though it may seem but my iRiver iHp-140 is just the thing [...]
Retro Cool
Now here’s a great idea brilliantly executed – the Namco 5 in 1 Stick – all those games you used to play down the arcade now neatly contained in a small box with a joystick on the top. Plug it into your TV and you have access to great classic titles such as Pac-Man, [...]
