Monthly Archives: March 2009
Skype for iPhone Tomorrow?
It seems that VOIP app Skype will finally be released for the iPhone tomorrow (Tuesday). Gigaom.com had the original story. Continue reading
Appleton Sans
Font generator has been around for a little while now, but I have just gotten around to uploading my own. Continue reading
AJAX the Crap Out of Your Site
This guy needs hiring, pronto. He even does Twitter backgrounds! Continue reading
Apple’s $99 Netbook?
Website Boy Genius Report is claiming that Apple and AT&T will be launching a $99 netbook in June, citing a source “pretty high up in AT&T’s food chain”. Continue reading
Open Source Hardware
There is a growing movement to open source hardware design in the a similar way to software, for example the “Hexayurt shelter”… Continue reading
“The Perfect Crime”
A pair of twins in Germany have walked free despite there being conclusive DNA evidence that one of them stole millions of euros worth of jewelery from KaDeWe in Berlin. However since their DNA is so similar, it cannot be … Continue reading
Teathering in iPhone 3.0?
It seems that a developer has managed to enable native tethering on his 3.0 firmware iPhone. Continue reading
Local Weather Forecast in Your Calendar
A quick tip to put a local weather forecast in your calendars. Continue reading
Google Street View Comes to the UK
Google has launched street view in the UK and the Netherlands. Continue reading
iPhone OS 3.0 Features
Wherin most of Andrew’s requests regarding iPhone OS 3.0 are addressed by Apple. Continue reading
Site Redesign
A little bit about what has changed and why. Grids, typography, colours and comments! Continue reading
On Internet Explorer 6
Wherein Andrew learns why so many people have such a dislike for Microsoft’s popular web browser. Continue reading
6 iPhone Bookmarklets
Perhaps even more handy than this is the potential for bookmarklets to add functionality to browsers which do not allow any kind of third party ad-on, for example the Safari app on the iPhone. The following is a list of my favourite iPhone bookmarklets. Continue reading
Google Voice
In 2007, Google bought US telephone service GrandCentral and promptly closed access to new members. Everything went quiet, development apparently stopped and it seemed that was it. Well today the Google Mobile Blog has announced a relaunch of the free … Continue reading
iPhone OS 3.0
Apple are set to announce the third major release of their iPhone OS at a media only event on 17th March. Continue reading
Only 7 of 100 Top Web Pages Validate
In designing this blog I have been careful to adhere to web standards, and you should find that it validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional1. This is because web standards are important, and should be taken seriously. With this in mind, … Continue reading
iPhone Prototype Pulled From eBay
This is very interesting. For a short while a pre-release iPhone prototype was available for sale on eBay. Bidding reached $2000 before it was removed, presumably at the behest of Apple’s legal people. There was an accompanying video on YouTube, … Continue reading
How To: MobileMe Sync Replacement for iPhone Contacts
This tutorial will show how to configure your iPhone and your Address Book in Mac OS X to synchronise with Google automatically and without any intervention. Continue reading
Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is a search engine of sorts developed by Stephen Wolfram which computes factual answers to user entered questions. Continue reading
The Box
BBC News: Continue reading
A little bit about what I read
So I thought that a good way to give an idea of what I’m into would be to give a few sites that I like. Here comes the inevitable list… The obvious first choice is the ubiquitous Daring Fireball. Followed … Continue reading
Why Twitter is the New YouTube
…because:
It’s an asset Google cannot afford to not own Continue reading
How To: Fully Integrated iPhone, Mac, Windows Calendar Sync
So I have had an iPhone since they were launched here in the UK in November 2007. I choose to use a MacBook Pro at home, and am forced to use Windows at work. I have three calendars – ‘work’, ‘home’ and ‘hockey fixtures’. Continue reading
By Way of an Introduction
So here it is. After a long time spent reading but not really participating in so many weblogs, I have decided to get involved. Continue reading
Twitter as a Comments Platform
Interesting idea from Daniel Sandler regarding the use of Twitter as a comments platform: Blog comments don’t really encourage robust discussion. (The only people who look twice at the comments are the original author and readers with an axe to … Continue reading →