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Clipping to Evernote from iPhone Safari Browser
Jan 17, 2010 18:16 - 0 Comments
One of my favourite tools is Evernote, the note taking application. I regularly find snippets of information on the internet that I want to retain and come back to later. Evernote provides a number of tools that sit in the browser allowing you to clip directly to your account. This is enormously helpful and [...]
Rule 1: Don’t Call Your Product “Unbreakable” If It Is Not
Jan 12, 2010 13:36 - 0 Comments
My advice is never give a live demonstration if you can possibly help it and never, never, never claim a property that the product doesn’t actually possess. Advice that Sonim would have done well to have heeded before handing over their “unbreakable” mobile phone to a reporter from the BBC.
The reporter, Dan Simmons, [...]
Your Own URL Shortener
Jan 11, 2010 11:35 - 0 Comments
URL Shorteners are all the rage these days what with bit.ly, tinyurl.com, flic.kr and the rest. They take the incredibly long URLs that are generated from tools such as Wordpress and turn them into something shorter and more manageable. So, for example, the URL for my last post on my top tech of 2009 [...]
Top tech of 2009
Jan 7, 2010 18:52 - 3 Comments
For the last few years Michael Arrington has been producing a list of the top tech that he has regularly used in each year and I thought this year I would give it a go. So this is the technology that I used day-in, day-out in 2009 and could not do without.
Google Chrome
A lot [...]
