Archives for Technology

Information and randomness on technology related to what I do.

Arghhhhh mail.app and mark as read annoyance!

Been using the macbook now for nearly two weeks and slowly i’m getting everything setup how I want it to be which is half the battle. I’m finding though that I spend more time using the mouse than the keyboard which is annoying but not nearly as annoying as……..mail.app marking all your emails as read [...]

Use your Nokia Online

http://www.nokia.com/A4705179
Overview
Nokia PC Phone is an experimental service that gives you a possibility to use your mobile phone with your Web Browser.You can call, text and manage contacts from your phone.
You can communicate by using Nokia PC Phone with your friends and family even though they don’t have the Nokia PC Phone themselves. Your friends are [...]

phpBB3 Released

Been a while since I used phpBB – probably about 2-3 years now but I must have been subscribed to their mailing list for new releases as I just got this in the post.
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=615945
If they have indeed sorted out the code problems they were plagued with previously then this could be a php forum of [...]

Mobile provider mangling your images?

Got sent this link just now about how to get around T-Mobile mangling content on mobile devices/3g cards.
Can’t say I’ve ever noticed it on o2 so not sure if they do it or not but this is a nice work around for those who use Firefox.
Content Mangling
Firefox Extension

Remote working

Well it’s the first time I’ve had my laptop that I’ve actually used it from a remote unsecure location for anything work related and in turn, needing a secure connection to do it. My own stuff isn’t important enough and I don’t do online banking if I’m using a wireless hotspot or anything.
However, I’ve been [...]

Site changes

I’ve always tried to keep all of the stuff I do in a single place, that’s started to change. Recently I’ve split this blog off from the main site and also changed over to using Wordpress rather than using blogger.com. Seems to be pretty good and I have much more control over it than I [...]

The old you feedback me first and I’ll feedback you back!

Getting a bit sick of this now on ebay. Having just bought a couple of things from Ebay in the past couple of days, I’ve seen how different people go about leaving feedback for you.
One guy who I collected the new cannon lense from on Monday night was one of the nicest people I’ve met [...]

Unwanted guests

Why is it websites attract unwanted attention
/rant over.

God damn sexy phone

Well Apple manage to astonish me yet again, after being quite a big anti-mac person for a while I’m constantly being blown away by the stuff they keep releasing. Next on the list is the Apple iPhone, this device looks both sexy and has the features to go with it, it’s not out in the [...]

Ooh, nice shiny new laptop turned up today

Only taken 3 days to get here, considering i got quoted 8th november for delivery then that’s not bad going. So far everything seems good with it. I have removed about twenty bits of software installed by dell as i was never going to use the likes of aol as a service provider. It’s a [...]