Worlds Oldest iPhone

I have proof here that I have the world’s oldest iPhone (or possible the oldest voicemail if you want to be picky). Look at the picture below and you will see that I have a voicemail from “Unknown” on 01/01/1970! Just another reason why I am swapping my current iPhone for a replacement…

Windows XP Given Another Stay of Execution

It is being reported on the BBC today that Microsoft are going to extend the life of Windows XP once again – this time until the end of May 2009. This is almost certainly due to two things: the public’s dislike of Vista and the huge take-off of netbooks, which use either a variant of [...]

22nd November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 8th November 2008:

Google – do you speak the Queen’s English?

Xobni Adds Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, Hoovers, And The Kitchen Sink

Google catches downsizing fever

Google’s Mobile App Uses Undisclosed Proximity Sensing System and Why You Should Care

Google SearchWiki Launched

Get to Google Docs from Gmail

You can see the rest of [...]

Does Free Lead to Buy?

A fairly common practice for software providers is to provide older versions of their software for free as a taster to encourage you to go on and purchase the latest versions. This applies equally to online apps as it does to desktop – the delivery mechanism is different but the principal is the same.  But [...]

Google Mobile App

So after much anticipation and false starts the latest version of the Google Mobile App for iPhone was launched today. What is particularly exciting about this application is that it uses voice recognition for search text entry rather than having to use the on-screen keyboard. The concept is simple. You start the app, hold [...]

The Netbook Diaries

On the Business Hacks website this week Rick Broida has been documenting his experiences of using a netbook when he has been out and about.
I am on my second netbook having recently change my Asus EEE PC for a rebadged MSI Wind and I love it but, as Broida points out, the battery life [...]

15th November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 15th November 2008:

URLs for iPhone-Optimized Google Sites
Slife 2.0 for Windows Leaves Beta [In Brief]
Google Launches Voice and Video Chat Inside Gmail [Video Chat]
Find and Download Higher Resolution Videos on YouTube [YouTube]

You can see the rest of my reading list here.

SET NOCOUNT ON

I spent a frustrating couple of hours yesterday trying to get output from a database into a web page – something that I have done many times before. However, on this occasion as the query was complex I decided that it needed to go into a stored procedure. I quickly got that working and tested [...]

8th November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 8th November 2008:

Remember the Milk Gadget Puts Tasks in Gmail’s Sidebar [Gmail]
Visualizing data in the cloud
MSI Wind 9-cell spotted in the wild
Gmail’s New Gadget Support Lets You Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available [Featured IPhone Download]
Early Look at Firefox’s Private Browsing [...]

1st November 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 1st November 2008:

Five Best URL Shrinkers [Hive Five]
Introducing Google Earth for iPhone
How Long Does Your Computer Take to Boot Up? [Reader Poll]
The town in the cloud…
New Default Groups for Google Contacts
Microsoft to battle in the clouds
Google Adds Gadgets To Gmail (Docs And Calendar)
Google Labs Gets to [...]