#“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. »
#“Die Die Die, Discussion Board Software, Die.” There is one area where the internet has gone backwards in the past 10 years and that's discussion sites. From 1992 to probably 2003, I got a huge amount of information using Usenet, more than I got on the web. Unfortunately, despite still existing in 2011, Usenet has become a spam hellhole and most discussions have moved to the web. If you go onto most of these sites, you'll probably see vBulletin, phpBB, BBPress or some other crime against humanity powering it. »
#“Play your video files in Google Docs” Once you've uploaded your video to Google Docs, you can watch it with the Google Docs video player. Simply click the file from your Documents List and the player opens in a new page. Files that you can play Uploaded video files can be up to 1 GB. These are the most common video formats that you can upload and play: WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec) . »
#“Sorting out the "On Behalf Of" Nonsense on GMail with AuthSMTP” I have long been pained by GMails handling of multiple "From" accounts. We use Google Apps For Your Domain which we generally like apart from that one feature.Obviously we have accounts like sales@ and support@ which are accessed by more than one of us. On the face of it GMail allows you to send from these addresses using your main account. »
#“Time for some car gadgets on this blog. Pneumatics FTW.” I hate hate hate going to garages to pump up my tyres. And the gauges are always wrong in any case. And now some of the chancers want money for air!This beauty is only 19 on Amazon.co.uk and works like a charm. Built-in light too. See the full gallery on Posterous »
#“Time for TERROR” Twitter Emergency Rapid Response On-Site Reporting = TERROR No, acronyms have never been my strength.My CorkProbs idea on Twitter back in 2007 never got any traction. Mainly because there were possibly 10 people in Cork on Twitter at the time. The idea was simply that locals would tweet @CorkProbs about problems related to roads, electricity, gas, water etc and the account would re-tweet them. It was prompted by a water outage in Bandon where no-one in the Council could tell us what theproblemwas or take responsibility for finding out. »
#“What the hell ever happened to Twitter Annotations?” I got very excited earlier in the year when Twitter announced the Annotations feature. It's a way of adding metadata to a tweet such that it doesn't have to be user-visible. Of course the one use case that many of us thought of was reviews. You could add the rating, url etc as metadata and use the tweet for the summary. Then twitter clients could potentially interpret that and show reviews in Twitter with stars etc. »
#“Could Skype build a Twitter competitor?” Random brain-fart time. I jokingly suggested earlier that Twitter was just a front-end on the Skype IM system which is why both of them are down. Now I'm sitting here thinking "well ye know………."Skype has the infrastructure, the contact lists and the userbase.Could they build both a single-threaded global system like Twitter with asymmetrical relationships and also a variation on their Groups feature, again where people can join rather than being invited? »
#“New Hedge Fund Uses Twitter To Pick Stocks” Well, you knew this was coming eventually. A new $39 million hedge fund will use sentiment analysis on Twitter to pick its trades, Bloomberg says. via businessinsider.com What did I just ask a few weeks ago? http://conoroneill.net/could-bond-traders-use-twitter »
#“Kids' Countdown to Track Santa with Norad” via noradsanta.org »