- Blog
- Profile
- Homepage
-
Type better on your Android
The problem with touch screen keyboards are that they, for one reason or another, slow to use. If you’ve never come across the concept of “swipe” keyboards, the idea is that that you don’t life your finger and simply drag your finger across the keys – it’s quicker but the software has to be smarter…
-
20 Useful Browser Bookmarklets
A bookmarklet is a browser shortcut that runs a small JavaScript script, adding useful and immediate functionality to whatever page you might be browsing at the time. There are many, many to be found on the internet – the site marklets.com is a rather complete collection of around 1000 that you can use. However, one…
-
Pogoplug on Android
If you’ve not heard of Pogoplug then you’re in for a treat. This is a bright pink box (don’t let the colour put you off) that you connect to your home router. Then, into the Pogoplug, you attach a hard drive to one of the 4 USB ports – it can be external hard drives…
-
Damn you WordPress – 3.0 launches!
WordPress 3.0 has been launched. And it’s late. And I’m busy all of tomorrow. And the weekend. I’m not going to risk the install now – sods law says it will go hideously wrong. I could try the install whilst I’m at work but their wireless network is so slow it’s nearly impossible to use.…
-
The Fruitless Search for an IM Client
I have 2 IM clients running on my Netbook – Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk. Between them they take up over 200MB of memory. So, I’m looking for an Instant Messaging client to run on my netbook that will run Windows Messenger and Google Talk. Optionally, Gmail notification would be good too. I don’t…