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One of the things I find really helpful in terms of motivation (for running) is having easy visibility of weekly, monthly and total mileages, times, paces etc. So, a couple of weeks ago I bought myself a Nike+ Sportband. This promised it all – a senor that fits in your…
A while back I restructured my website so that this blog no longer started at the root, instead starting from /blog. This was so that I could introduce some other web apps and have a subfolder for projects etc. One of the pains of this restructure was modifying all the…
I was recording some audio earlier today and the quality from my cheap, generic headset/microphone was woeful., so I searched around for a service that I could make a telephone call into and it would record the spoken audio and give me a WAV or MP3file. I came across http://drop.io…
Now that I have moved us over to Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) completely, I have been fighting with Outlook to get a decent user / email experience. It just doesn’t seem to flow well – I got the SMTP/IMAP send/receive stuff all set up and working correctly, but…
Originally I had my website set up to default to my blog (so dasBlog was installed at the website root level instead of in a /blog subfolder). Recently I have been writing some Web Applications and wanted to restructure my website so that there is a subfolder for each app…
Sarah wanted ‘Ruby Ruby Ruby’ by the Kaiser Chiefs as her ringtone. Her mobile doesn’t have any easy way of connecting to a PC, so she joined one of the rip-off ‘Ringtones R Us’ services that force you into paying £4.50 / week for as many ringtone downloads as you…
I spent a day this past week visiting one of our Technology Partners in New Jersey. The objective was do put together a proof concept for some integration we are planning. We have some very cool stuff, about to be announced at one of the big shows coming up and…
I have just completed a new Windows Live Writer plugin. This extension allows ease insertion of geo microformat information. It allows the user to easily choose the location they want to insert (in microformat) from a Virtual Earth map and also configure how it is displayed (if at all on…
I registered for Mix:UK a few weeks ago and today got an email from the Mix team about a social networking tool they are using to help people make the most of the conference. They are using backnetwork, which allows creation of profiles, blogging, photos, adding friends / colleagues etc (all…