A Thinking Man

I am sitting in Caffè Nero trying to test out a new iPhone app - SpellChecker.
It has its own dictionary that it refers to as you type. However, it can also access a range of other iPhone dictionaries. I have mine linked to the very impressive (but expensive) Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Once you have [...]

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Some time ago I wrote about a couple of applications that were enhancing my Gmail experience, and since then, I have discovered three more that are helping me manage my inbox.  I suppose for many people, email is just email.  However, as a small business user, I get a lot of emails, and many of [...]

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Well … Vlingo!
I’m not quite sure what to say really.  But it is impressive - at least, I think so.  It has certainly cut down the typing.
I have blogged before about how various iPhone apps were available to enable a user to use voice to interact with software on his or her phone.  For some [...]

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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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I have been surfing the web for the past few days reading all about tips and tricks to enable me to exploit the features my new iPhone.  I thought I would compile a brief list here of some of the ones I have found most helpful.  They appear in no particular order.

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I’ve lived with my iPhone 3G for a fortnight now and have decided that enough time has passed for me to be able to make some sensible comments about the experience. Initially I was ‘too intoxicated’ to be able to write clearly, but the passing of time has enabled some more mature reflection.
Things that [...]

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One story which has been causing a fair amount of sniggers in the press this week is a research report by the UK Health Protection Agency indicating that sexually transmitted infections have doubled in under a decade in people over 45 and are now rising faster than in the young. (The overall rate of [...]

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Apologies to many of my regular readers for a second ‘techie’ blog in one week, but I need to get it out of my system.  I will return to my normal subjects next week - I promise.  It’s just that I have recently discovered something else (see Backup!) that I find really useful and I [...]

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When the roll is called up yonder, I won’t be there. Which is good, because I’m not too sure what I should have said in the emails I was meant to leave behind.
I was amused last week by a story from Paul Sims on the New Humanist Blog about a really valuable new use [...]

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Several years ago (at my age, I now find that precise historical details are a bit vague) I was fairly active politically. I was a signed up party member, I stood for election to the local council (failed to get elected), and beat the streets delivering leaflets and knocking on doors. During one [...]

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