#“Android Fanboi Aged 72” I wrote about theincrediblycheap Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade) while back. It's a really good Android phone for 100 PAYG in the UK. I couldn't resist when I was in London recently and grabbed one in Bayswater. Even the young lad in the shop thought Orange was crazy with the low pricing. The phone itself is far far better than you could expect it to be for the price. »
#“My Latest Sugru Invention” A hook for my Skype phone. Reinforced with a paper clip. Rather proud of it I must say. I'll upload the horror that is the back of our Sky+ controls later (3 colours!) »
#“Finally, an update to Swype” via forum.swype.com After being a complete Swype fanatic since I first got my hands on it, I actually had to uninstall it recently. It was getting more words wrong than right. It looks like they have fixed that problem so off I go to re-install now. »
#“Greatest Cake Evah” via pocket-lint.com Whoever made this is a total genius. »
#“RTE should mark this day” I know I know, I do the early adopter crap all the time. "Broadcast TV is dead", "Shows will all be single-purchase via IPTV in 2 years" "I don't even know who presents the News on RTE now" "Late Late What?".But the average punter is still tuning in and watching the same old stuff, maybe a bit time-delayed by Sky+, but that's it.So, as always, we have to look at what the kids are doing to see what's really coming next. »
#“What browsing the web using RockMelt feels like” I suffer enough distraction problems without constantly updating buttons telling me who is doing what on Twitter/Facebook whilst I'm online banking. I see RockMelt and the first word that comes into my head is Cuil. »
#“Love it - How iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users see each other” via csectioncomics.com Hat tip to IntoMobile »
#“Sharing Family Videos using Amazon Cloudfront, CloudBerry, JWPlayer and Wordpress” We have tons of old video going back to 1997 that I have been capturing as MPG files over the past few years with WinTV boxes. They then sat unloved on a harddrive until now. We have recently got family requests for copies of some of the videos and it prompted me to finally do something. I had considered burning DVDs but they are just going to get lost/scratched and I've always found generating them to be a complete pain. »
#“The Importance of Interfaces” I've recently been thinking about how interfaces and standards are so important. One challenge we have as a family with a huge number of kids is playing media when we visit various grandparents or in-laws. During the winter this is even more important. There are only so many DS games, episodes of iCarly or y8.com games they will play. The same is true when I'm travelling and I want to chill out with a movie in a hotel and not be gouged. »
#“HTC Desire Playing Nice with iGo Stowaway Keyboard” I got an iGo Stowaway Keyboard nearly three years ago for my Nokia N95-8GB and N770 at a knock-down price. I still think it is one of the greatest pieces of industrial design out there. It never got huge use but was invaluable when I really needed it. For the past few months I've used it as the keyboard for our Boxee PC. »