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TweetNotebook
Dec 24, 2009 17:23 - 0 Comments
In what must be one of the greatest acts of egotistical self-indulgence a couple of weeks ago I ordered a TweetNotebook.
For those that aren’t familiar with it the TweetNotebook is a notebook with a random selection of your tweets printed at the bottom of each page and with your Twitter icon printed on the [...]
A Better Perspective
Dec 17, 2009 20:27 - 0 Comments
I consider myself to be a power Googler. Not only can I bang in keywords but I can also use boolean operators and search operators, such as filetype: & site:. However, I discovered yesterday that this all counts for nothing if you don’t know what it is that you are searching for.
One of my clients [...]
BBC iPlayer on Nintendo wii
Dec 14, 2009 20:44 - 0 Comments
The BBC has been doing a sterling job with its iPlayer making it available in all sorts of places. I had an opportunity to try out the Nintendo wii implementation over the weekend and I was pretty impressed.
To date all my iPlayer watching has been done on a computer of some description or another (or [...]
Online EPS Viewer
Dec 11, 2009 13:08 - 0 Comments
I love timesavers like this.
EPS files are great for high quality graphics and are essential for press ready artwork but viewing the files can be a real pain. Typically you need a high end Adobe product or a specialised viewer which I don’t want to have to install just for the odd occasion when [...]
My Space? Your Space More Like
Dec 7, 2009 14:04 - 0 Comments
Really interesting article in the FT yesterday about the rise and fall of MySpace drawing a (contrasting) comparison to the current web sensation Facebook.
I have to admit that while I really struggled with the point of Facebook but I have never got MySpace. Not at all. Ever.
Potentially I can see Facebook being a real [...]
Business Card Reader for iPhone
Dec 3, 2009 16:20 - 0 Comments
Like so many people I still get plenty of business cards and despite many attempts to replace them with something a little more up-to-date nothing has succeeded so far (and won’t in my opinion until there is a common standard). Actually I like business cards but entering the details from them into my contacts can [...]
TweetCloud
Dec 2, 2009 11:06 - 0 Comments
I have covered word clouds before when I looked at the service Wordle. Another, similar, service has popped up over the last few days offering a similar service for your Tweets, tweet cloud. Having pointed it to my Twitter stream @spokenlikeageek (you are following me, right?) it produced the graphic on the left showing the [...]
2009’s Must-Have Device
Nov 30, 2009 19:24 - 0 Comments
There has been a lot of talk in the press recently about Rupert Murdoch taking his news off the web and off Google in particular. Murdoch feels that content has a value and that we should be paying for that value. In a sense he is correct of course but unfortunately he is too late. [...]
MacBook Pro
Nov 8, 2009 14:53 - 3 Comments
One thing that I particularly like about the MacBook Pro is its grunt. Even though mine is the bottom of the range model it has far more processing power than my old Windows desktop allowing me to rip DVDs in minutes rather than hours. This processing power has led me to make the MacBook [...]
Windows 7 vs. Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Nov 5, 2009 22:03 - 0 Comments
Well to date I have upgraded two machines to Windows 7 and I have to say that the whole thing has been a pleasurable experience. Not only has it breathed new life into a couple of old machines but also I am liking the improvements that have been made. I particularly like how you [...]
