A Thinking Man

It is now over 18 months since I first got her - ‘it’ seems way too impersonal for an object which has become an almost indispensable part of my life.  I have blogged before about the first love, about speaking to her so that she never forgets (ReQall), about the app that enables me to [...]

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I’m a child at heart, and I love playing with new software.  Occasionally I discover new toys that seem too important and enjoyable to put aside. About three weeks ago I discovered Evernote and have been using it (playing with it) ever since.
I was sceptical at first.  ”After all,” I thought, “Evernote is only an [...]

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Phlogs are nice (and sometimes useful) things that ipadio lets you create.  And now, thanks to a really powerful, free app, you can phlog from your iPhone with ease.
Phlogs are recordings that you can easily make from any phone and instantly broadcast on the Internet.  You just sign up for a free account, get your unique [...]

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I was recently shown a full page advertisement in a magazine that almost had me choking on my coffee. It was for a £29.99 porcelain composition of two figures on either side of a children’s roundabout. One of the authorities quoted in the advertisement described the figures as the most moving statuettes created [...]

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OK. A quick techie post - the kind I feel compelled to make from time to time. Boring and annoying for those who do not share my interest in these things, and for those millions out there who have somehow managed to survive so far without an iPhone.
I find myself doing it more and [...]

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Twitter is passing into mainstream. Latest figures from Hitwise, the online intelligence service, show a 974 per cent increase in traffic, jolting Twitter from the 2,953rd most popular site among UK users to the 291st most visited by mid-January.
Richard Goad, director of research for Hitwise, said in a recent Independent article: “Twitter [...]

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It’s been a good week for users of Gmail (Google Mail).  I must admit, I have been a fan from the beginning.  Before the arrival of Gmail I had other internet mail accounts, but the arrival of Gmail seemed to take the experience into another league.  Free webmail, accessible from any computer already existed, but [...]

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Things are definitely changing fast.
I have always tried to embrace technology. I enjoy novelty, regardless of usefulness. I can remember my first computer - a ZX81 purchased from WH Smiths. You couldn’t do anything with it really other than try to learn BASIC. Soon the specialist magazines were filled with programs for it that made [...]

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I have enjoyed 2008, and as I have reflected on why, I have come to the conclusion that part of the reason for my enjoyment is an increased appreciation of the internet.
Some of you, like me, may be able to remember the early days when going online was expensive and extremely slow, and you only [...]

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There are three ways of doing this.
There is the Official Apple way. In this way, you pay Apple for the privilege of downloading the song, and then you pay them again for the privilege of converting the song into a ringtone. Full details of how to do this can be found in the [...]

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