#“Why does Posterous multiply my pageviews by 22?” Looking at your stats in Posterous could lead one to be very cocky indeed. Unfortunately they are complete cobblers. That curation one I posted 20 minutes ago supposedly has 226 views already. Here is what Posterous says about one of my recent posts and then what Google Analytics says. See the full gallery on Posterous Why the spoof numbers? »
#“I need self-curated news for the Irish General Election #ge11” So I'm lashing together a quick General Election list on Twitter for my Dad to follow. He's not on Twitter but he loves politics and I think he'd get a kick out of it. I started with some of the obvious MSM accounts and then some peopleI know who are interested in politics. Then I looked at some of their lists. »
#“Hexapod Monster great - apart from the soldering” One of the pressies that Santy gave to our 11 y/o son was a Hexapod Monster robot. It's a self-assembly kit that should result in a robot that can walk around and avoid obstacles. The youngfella has had plenty of experience building ever more complex Lego so this looked like a good next step before perhaps considering Lego Mindstorms. Once we looked at the kit, we realised he couldn't do it on his own and I'd have to help. »
#“From Zero to Web2Ireland using Wordpress on Digital Mines in 15 mins” We decided to move Web2Ireland.org over to Digital Mines for AWS hosting. I'm a big fan of how easy Digital Mines has made the deployment of Amazon servers. I thought it might be useful to show the steps to get a Wordpress blog up and running with such a setup. Note this doesn't include the incredibly simple steps to sign-up for Digital Mines itself and to click " »
#“Can anyone remember the name of this phone testing tool?” I've had this for over ten years. It's a brilliant phone-line testing tool with some other bits. I've lost the instructions and would love to know what the other bits are for. But for the life of me I cannot remember what it is called. Anyone? Google Goggles was completely useless. »
#“I look a bit like a mentalist with this Standing Desk setup” After talking about it a few times over the past few months, I finally decided to try working whilst standing today. The buzz around the idea on Twitter today presumably came from Gina's post on Lifehacker. Well worth a read. I am going for the environmentally friendly (aka zero cost) option of two cardboard boxes to implement my Standing Desk. »
#“O2 HSDPA with 19% signal faster than 7Mbs Eircom ADSL at night in Ireland” I despair. See the full gallery on Posterous »
#“Tweetcaster - First Twitter Android App with Decent Filters” via androidguys.com As opposed to Decency Filters :-) I've only just started playing with the feature and amazingly, it isn't just the best implementation on a mobile, it's the best implementation anywhere. Your can mute people, hashtags or keywords. Tweetdeck, Seesmic et al should be ashamed of themselves for the lack of progress in this area on the desktop. Speaking of which there is a Chrome plugin for Twitter which does filtering called Slipstream. »
#“JOYSTICK-IT Tablet Arcade Stick - Have to have!” via thinkgeek.com This device on its own could convince me to buy a tablet as soon as Android Honeycomb comes out. »
#“Parrot ASTEROID \u0096 I want something even simpler again” via eurodroid.com One of the best tech purchases I made over the past few years was a Lidl Bluetooth car stereo. My old built-in Ford RDS6000 no longer played CDs and never had a line-in so it had to go. The Lidl (and Aldi equivalent) units are fantastic. They have line-in, USB, SD Card, CD Player, Radio, A2DP Bluetooth and a hands-free kit. »