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Entries from July 2008

MeeTimer Firefox Plugin

July 29th, 2008 · Comments · Uncategorized

I recently stumbled across an excellent Firefox Plugin called MeeTimer, created by Andy Mitchell. MeeTimer records how long you spend on each site whist surfing the web and allows you to view a list of most visited sites per day and overall. It’s easy to categorise sites as “work”, “communication” and “procrastination”, or create your [...]

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V-Moda Vibe Duo iPhone Headphones

July 23rd, 2008 · Comments · music

So, you have a shiny new iPhone. It does (almost) everything from surfing the web to reading email and playing your favourite music. It couldn’t be better, right? Wrong. The bundled iPhone headphones are terrible! I bought a pair of V-Moda Vibe Duo Headphones about 6 months ago, and have been completely blown away by [...]

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Facebook’s New Design: First Impressions

July 21st, 2008 · Comments · social

Today Facebook accounced in their official blog, that the new design is now being rolled out… If you can’t wait to see what they’ve been working on, there is a live preview available at www.new.facebook.com. One of the main catalysts for the majority of user interface improvements is that many profiles are were being swamped [...]

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Wi-Fi freedom on trains

July 20th, 2008 · Comments · mobile

I’m writing this blog post on the National Express (previously GNER) train from Leuchars to London Kings Cross – a 6 hour cross-country route that’s taking us home after a short break in St Andrews. Two seats down I see a someone in the nervous last minutes of an eBay auction and another tending to [...]

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To blog or not to blog?

July 18th, 2008 · Comments · Uncategorized

After many years of procrastinating about starting a personal blog, I finally got my WordPress into gear and dived head first into the blogosphere. I’m actually amazed that it’s taken so long! Well, I actually created my first “home page” back in the dark ages of dial up connections, blinking marquees and dodgy animated GIFs [...]

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