Feb 09
PhilTechnology bluetooth, gadgets, geek, mobile, phone, ring, wedding
This post looks at the new Orb Bluetooth headset which converts from a ring, worn on the finger, to a Bluetooth earpiece and back again; and why I want one!
I think I may have mentioned before that I consider myself a Geek and I am really not afraid to admit it. However, if I were a soon-to-be-married Geek, this is the ring I would be asking for (it is too late for our 10 year Anniversary, what’s the next one I can ask for a ring as a present?).
It has been developed by a company called Hybra Advance Technology and it all sounds a bit futuristic and fanciful, but it might just be real because it won the 2010 Best of Innovations Award at CES last month with a promised launch date of ‘Spring 2010′ for the OLED version and later in the year for the very nice looking full colour FOLED (Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode – in case you were wondering) version.
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Sep 05
PhilTechnology, Web, WordPress bookmarking, plugins, social, social networking, Web, WordPress
I don’t know about you, but I have seen quite a lot of sites recently using little pop-up icons to represent the different ‘social-sharing’ services, allowing people to let others quickly know how much they enjoyed the post they have just read (hopefully).
I have been using the great ShareThis service which I thought was nice looking, iconic and subtle. You do not see anything until you click on the nice green ShareThis icon. However, this does mean you have to click on the icon, assuming that you know what it might do I suppose.
I did wonder how these other bloggers had got these little icons on their posts that popped up when you hover the mouse over them. So, on one site, I viewed the source for the page and found a reference to SexyBookmarks. Checking out the site I found it was another free (or donationware) WordPress plugin, giving you quite a few options for which services to include icons for. Nice!
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Aug 17
PhiliPhone, Technology iPhone, jailbreak, MMS, OS3.0, restore, video
I bought my first generation iPhone almost a year after the original launch, only when I could afford to because O2 had drastically reduced the price without contract. Selling my old iPod 30Gb and my old mobile meant I could just about afford it.
Now, I have desperate geek-lust towards the iPhone 3GS, but there is no way that I can afford to get one at the moment. So I am resigned to using my old original iPhone for the foreseeable future.
This isn’t such a bad thing really, I love the iPhone as a device, and the OS3 software update went a long way towards making my iPhone more of a pleasure to use.
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Aug 14
PhilQuicktips, Technology Airport, Apple, How-to, Leopard, Mac, OSX, Tips, Tutorials
I didn’t know about this tip, and as a Trainer I like to pass on the knowledge in the hope it will help someone, somewhere, have a better day.
So, the credit for this quicktip goes to Dave Hamilton from the excellent MacGeekGab in Epsiode 214:
I knew that on Mac OSX, if you click on the Airport icon in the menu bar, you would see the name of the wireless network you had connected to, and any others in range, plus a little padlock to the side to indicate if security was enabled on that base station. This is the standard view as illustrated on the right.
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Aug 09
PhilTechnology ExpressCard, Hard disk, HDD, Mac, MBP, SDD, Solid State
I am fine with USB sockets, I hook up a 7 port hub and hang disk drives, a printer, scanner, iPod, iPhone and digital camera off of it. I even have a use for the Firewire port on my MacBook Pro (hereafter, mostly, referred to as MBP), that’s where my video camera goes. But there is a little trapdoor on the left side of my Mac that has puzzled me for a while. I knew it replaced the PCMCIA card slot that my old PowerBook had, and I actually used that all the time as a Compact Flash card reader.
But this new little trapdoor on the MBPs apparently opens into what is known as an ExpressCard slot. No, I hadn’t heard of it either! And, it would appear, Apple have given up on it fairly quickly, with the current iteration of the MBP now having a more obviously useful SD card slot.
Actually, the SD card slot is not that useful to me personally. My DSLR (the Canon EOS 400D) uses CompactFlash cards, requiring a separate card reader, which is another thing I hang off that USB hub I mentioned earlier.
However, today I finally got around to listening to Episode 211 of the always informative and really great fun MacGeekGab (MGG). If you like to get at all Geeky about the Mac, and you do not listen to this show, you are missing out big time. Subscribe to it in iTunes NOW! I really, really enjoy listening to this podcast and it has saved my Mac bacon many times, I love it, thanks Dave and John.
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Aug 07
PhilTechnology DoS, Facebook, Internet, iPhone, Mac, social networking, tweeting, Twitter
I am sure that hundreds, if not thousands, of other bloggers have gone in to the merit of Twitter, and how it can be used in every day life, work, etc. So what I wanted to say, fairly quickly, is how much it means to me.
What has caused a lot of the twitterers, tweeps, tweeple or whatever we should respectfully call a collection of Twitter users, shudder and evaluate the importance of the service to them, is the Denial of Service (DoS) attack on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, and which they continue to fight at this moment (some API features are still broken apparently).
My first thought “Twitter is down, I must tell people. Oh no, I can’t tweet, Twitter is down! Now what do I do?”. I felt a bit helpless so I Googled it, obviously, then blogged about it yesterday, even though this is a brand new blog, and I am the only one reading it…
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Aug 06
PhilTechnology Denial of Service, DoS, Hackers, Hacking, Outage, Tech, Twitter, Wired
Like a large chunk of the world’s Internet using population, I have been trying to get onto Twitter repeatedly over the last few hours without success, not even seeing a ‘failwhale’ message. But a quick Google search reveals that apparently, Twitter.com is under a massive Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
No, I’m not sure what that is either, but this article helped to explain it a lot. It was linked to from the Wired article that reported the Twitter outage this afternoon. Just in case anyone was wondering why they couldn’t get their fix today!
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