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It’s about time!

I’ve finally got round to doingwhat I’ve said I wanted to do pretty much since I started the first version of this blog 6 years ago, and that’s writing some code to release.
So yesterday I posted my .NET wrapper to the bit.ly API. I’m hosting it on GitHub as I’ve wanted a chance to use [...]

Cupcakes r us

Just got the cupcake updatw on my G1. I’m typing this with the soft keyboard. Not too shabby. Not quite sure how to exit the keyboard but I’m sure I’ll work that out soon enough.

Ok, so I’m a hypocrite

I didn’t exactly say I wasn’t ever going to use Songbird again. But since they’ve updated their iPod add-on, I thought I’d give it another go. So far so good. I still have all my music.

Songbird – the magpie of media players

At work, I like to listen to music. It allows me to focus on the task in hand. I plug my iPod 5G into my computer and up until recently I was using Winamp to access and play the mp3s on there.
However, on Monday of this week I decided to try something new. I’d heard [...]

A couple of things

I got a new phone on Monday. The T-Mobile G1 (otherwise known as the Google Phone). Very very nice. Very easy to use. Syncs email/contacts/calendar with my google apps account very quickly.
I’ve just bought a couple of tracks off Amazon MP3 store – Friendly Fire’s Paris and Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah (none of that [...]

Where did this come from?

I don’t own a Mac. Or a Macbook (although I am tempted). I don’t own an iPhone. I do however have a 5th Generation iPod (aka a “video” iPod). No, that iPod has no internet connection. It has no calendar software, nor can it send, receive or have email “pushed” to it.
So why, when I [...]

The meaning of irony

I got an email yesterday from Fasthosts. Yes that Fasthosts. The tag line? “Risk Free Web Hosting!”.
Oh the irony.

Wavelog

I’ve been looking to a way to post to this here blog from my N95 for a while and had heard good things about Wavelog (just released). I’m going to have a play over the next couple of weeks. You’ll see the results here.

Report that spam!

One thing I have noticed recently is that more and more spam is managing to bypass Gmail’s spam filter and is successfully infiltrating my Inbox. Admittedly it’s only the odd one or two, but I’m sure Google used to be better than that.
Anyone else having this problem?

Oh the irony

Ok, lets get the preamble out the way: iPhone blah blah Uk blah O2 blah.
Finished?
Paul Annett, over on his blog, has pointed out that even though they have been deemed great enough to be the ones to offer the iPhone (officially of course, since it’s apparently very easy to unlock it to other networks) the [...]

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