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Hosting, Chrome and My N95

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Posted in N95, Fun, Blogs on December 20, 2008 at 12:25 pm

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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?)

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What happens when you step away from a computer for 2 days?

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Posted in Fun, Technology, Internet, Social Networking on July 13, 2008 at 3:45 pm

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Over the past two days (Friday and Saturday) I haven

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EEE Pc Touch screen

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Posted in Fun, Technology on July 3, 2008 at 8:49 pm

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I saw this video a while back and its just popped up again in the good old rss but I still think its brilliant. The EEE Pc is charming me over evermore with its ability to run xp now and this touchscreen mod which would mean not having to use the tiny little touchpad. I was also looking into an oqo umpc but the eee with the touchscreen mod is cheaper and newer than the oqo model 1. Has anyone had any experiences with the EEE Pc

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iPlayer 2.0 Coming Soon

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Posted in Fun, TV, Technology, Internet on June 26, 2008 at 3:43 pm

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iPlayer Beta Screenshot ThumbnailUpdate:- I’ve just noticed that the iPlayer Beta is now available here and its looking amazing and the stuff below still applies, but to be honest I don’t want to update it all.

I’ve just heard through the grapevine of rss that the iPlayer will be getting a version 2.0 in beta form very soon which will run alongside the normal version for a while and then replace it eventually. The new version attends to one main feature - radio. The BBC Radio ‘Listen Again’ or iPlayer radio will be fused with the iPlayer potentially doubling iPlayer visitor numbers apparently. Other changes include:

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Cheap Multi-touch Pad Part 2

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Posted in Fun, Software, Technology, Internet on June 1, 2008 at 7:40 pm

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A little while ago I made this blog - here

And I can confirm that I have managed to make it! - demonstrated below, I had to have the lights off as it works by finding fingers locations based on light and the way it shows when touching the glass. The video is low quality as it was filmed on my normal camera (Kodak V1003) because my camcorder was in the box being used for the whole thingymabob.

Thanks to the creater at: http://ssandler.wordpress.com/mtmini/

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How to make a cheap multitouch pad:

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Posted in Fun, Software, Future, Technology, Internet on May 11, 2008 at 9:19 am

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When I first saw this I thought that it wouldn

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Software - I love it

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Posted in Fun, Software on April 23, 2008 at 7:36 pm

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I am a software addict

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How to waste time?

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Posted in Fun, Internet on March 17, 2008 at 7:10 pm

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Right then, I

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Wubi

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Posted in Fun, Technology, Internet on March 10, 2008 at 7:30 pm

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I read a while back on CNet about wubi, I also watched

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I didnt want to do work anyway

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Posted in Fun, Internet on March 3, 2008 at 11:16 am

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I

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