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#“Kulula Airplane Rebranding” via theletter.co.uk More fabness from @discusster over on theletter.co.uk »

#“Symbian Open-Sourcing Gut Reaction” So Symbian is now fully Open-Sourced.I bang the "Symbian is dead" drum quite a bit but it's more coming from a punter perspective than any industry insight. I have an N95-8GB and a HTC G1. The hardware on the N95 is fabulous, the apps are solid, the OS gets in my way all the time. The hardware on the G1 is rubbish, the apps are fabulous and the OS stays out of my way. »

#“Bill Hicks had it right all those years ago” I read this: WTF: "Kids' lingerie" photos featuring Miley Cyrus' 9-year-old sister on a stripper pole?   And thought of this (circa 1min 30secs in):     »

#“Machform nicely formed” When the new biz site launched we used the Contact Form 7 plugin for Wordpress. Whilst it does a good job for basic forms, we soon ran into its limitations. I had seen good success in the past with Machform on the BarCamp Cork site so gave that a trial instead.It's working really well for us. Install is trivial and creating forms is all drag n drop. It's very inexpensive at €29 and the forms can be pasted into most sites with almost no effort. »

#“Click & Buy make themselves look like scammers” Catherine found a charge on our Mastercard recently that we could not get to the bottom of. We then discovered it recurred all the way back to September. It was from "Click and Buy". We contacted Mastercard but all they could say was "it's for professional services". I went on to Click and Buy to discover a lot of online gambling logos. So of course we suspected the card had been hijacked. »

#“Android soon for \u008030?” Finally got my two-year upgrade on Vodafone Ireland. Had a look at what's on offer. N97-mini for 120 is good value but I hate resistive screens and the lack of memory.Oh, what's this? The Vodafone H1 360 for 30? A linux-based phone, social media enabled, 5 MP camera, wifi, 3G, bluetooth, Cortex A8 kick-ass CPU, lots of memory. Is that a typo? No, it is 30.Read some reviews (particularly Ewan on Mobile Industry Review). »

#“Sony Ericsson thinks I’m a big girls blouse” I signed up on the Sony Ericsson site to be notified when the Xperia X10 Android phone was launched. But they also decided to add me to their newsletter mailing list. Grrrrrrreat.Today they think I'd like to buy this wonderful Dolce & Gabbana JalouNo. »

#“Jolicloud not what I expected” So after checking out CloudOS, I loaded up JoliCloud onto a thumbdrive. Tariq Krim's quick presentation at Le Web had caught my interest.I was a bit stunned to find myself booting into Ubuntu NBR Linux. And not quickly. Hardly a new paradigm.I create a Jolicloud account and............."Here are some apps you can install in your linux box. Here are some other webapps, not specific to Jolicloud" »

#“Instant Google CloudOS Reaction” On Monday night I grabbed an image of Google's not-yet-released CloudOS operating system, stuck it on a USB stick and booted my Acer Aspire One netbook with it. In under10 seconds I had a login prompt. 5 seconds after that I was in and using it. Pretty shockingly impressive.It currently a very basic desktop with mainly links to web apps. Browser is obviously Chrome.Very slow (since it is totally non-optimised for any hardware) but amazingly, video works, network works, decent resolution works. »

#“The in-betweeners” Like many people, my blogging activities have collapsed. A lot of that is due to work commitment but another large part of it is that I post most quick thoughts and ideas to Twitter or Facebbok. The problem there is discoverability and conversation threads. Sure someone can find a tweet weeks later but they'll never be able to reply to it in an intelligible way. But I still don't have time to do full blog posts. »