Hosting
Christmas time and its time for me to renew my website, thats all been done but now I have so many more features I’m trying to use them all at once, theres just so much to do on a web hosted server thingamabob – phpbb, wordpress and gallery’s galore!
I’ve been tinkering around with them all and installing boat loads of plugins for wordpress, something that I’ve always found with phpbb is that its easy to setup but its a royal pain to try and update, add plugins to and generally change. Sure themes and templates are easy but adding something as simple as a quick reply box is nowhere near as easy as it should be, its not even close to the ease of use that wordpress has to install plugins.

Chrome
A little while ago I wrote a little bit on Google Chrome, Since then I haven’t been using it too much but recently I’ve been using it daily on my laptop and quite a bit on my PC too – its just much quicker than Firefox to load for me, the only main problem I have with it is that it doesn’t feature any of the plug-ins that Firefox can offer, this may slow Firefox down for me in the long run but it does make it a better browser for me. A little better integration of flexibility would be a great addition to Chrome for me.

And Finally
I’ve had my Nokia N95 for a while now and I really am still loving it! – its much quicker than my old e65, it has more memory and more storage and better features – I’ve used the camera more than I’ve used any other mobile phone camera, purely thanks to the quality. I use it mainly for wap use – emails using Nokia Email and the Gmail application which bring different features to the table, Nokia Email is integrated and very smooth to run as well as inkeeping with the theme. The Gmail app on the other hand has its on styling and takes a little longer to load and use, however it has more control over the actions in terms of Gmail’s features – Searching, Archiving etc. They both offer what I need and at the moment they work in unison quite well which is a plus for me. I also use it for some simple web browsing – yes mainly Facebook (which has a fantastic mobile site – you can perform many of the normal functions just as easily) but also a small amount of research using Google.

I therefore love my N95 and don’t plan on replacing it for a while (last famous words?)

Sorry!, I hvent been around as much as usual for a while but my excuse is going to be that I started work last week and therefore have been a bit busy etc but normal service should be resumed starting with my report on my new purchases!- Today I took the plunge and bought a new monitor (22

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It is that time of year again when you can almost guarantee the receiving of some useless USB gadget, now some useless gadget things I like

I believe I could be the saddest of all geeks, however I also believe that I’m not alone, I have often thought of what my ideal house would be in the future (when I’m rich, famous and boss of a big company) I thought as a bit of proof of my geekiness I’d write some thoughts down:

• I’ll start with waking up, this would of course normally be done using a normal alarm clock however in my future tech home it won’t be a normal alarm clock, it’ll be a networked sound system programmed to come on a certain time so I can wake up to my favourite radio station or tunes from my library. The curtains would also open at this point automatically (leaving the blinds shut too - what a clever idea!). Read more

To say that the internet today is better than the internet we knew many many years ago would be a huge understatement. From being used all those years ago for university