Archive for May, 2010
Google Android Traction Statistics
Here is a visual representation of the latest information regarding Android’s “traction” in the 18 months since it debuted. The charts are from the AndroidTapp.com website and the data was provided by Google Inc. at Google I/O 2010 .
Creative Competition – Winners!
The Creative Competition came to an end on Friday and, Saturday morning, 3 winners were picked at random. They were… 1st Prize – Jackie Ankrah from London 2nd Prize – Diane Roberts from Prestatyn 3rd Prize – Sid Holton from Rothwell a Congratulations to them all! Lauren Farrar from Halifax was our original 3rd prize winner [...]
Creative Aurvana In-Ear2 earphones
Last week I became the proud owner of a set of Creative Aurvana In-Ear2 earphones which retail for £89.99. And these are the proverbial “bee’s knees” – oxygen-free copper cabling and gold plated connections. They are also really quite light and compact. Now, I’m not the kind of person who gets excited about , but [...]
Choosing a video editor for the home amateur
Now updated to include Corel VideoStudio Pro X3. It was my youngest daughters 1st birthday recently and I took the opportunity to record various videos during the day. What I now need to do is to splice them together and make some basic enhancements (one of the videos, for instance, was recorded in low light [...]
ZyXEL NSA210
I’ve had my ZyXEL NAS now for a couple of months, so I thought it was only fair that I should review it The device itself was a lot smaller than I was expecting, being not bigger than the hard drive that goes in it. It’s made robustly of metal, with the exception of the [...]
Adding information to your WordPress dashboard
If you wish to add a widget to your WordPress dashboard then that’s a different, and longer, discussion. Instead I’m going to show you how to add a simple message, of your choosing, to the “Right Now” box. How could you use this? You could use a database lookup beforehand, for instance, to report on [...]
What Android Version is my Phone?
The following charts I came across on the AndroidTapp.com website. Although US biased they represent a good state of affairs of which Android phones are available and which OS version they’re using. Click on the image for a larger version.
Win Creative products!
Creative , purveyor of fine PC and home media electronics products, is giving away 3 of those very same products away in an exclusive competition with this site. The top prize is a £280 ZiiSound D5 Bluetooth Speaker System . Simply visit the competition page and answer one relatively easy question! The competition is open until 28th May.
Vote BNP? They can’t even run a website!
If (for whatever insane reason) you stumble onto the BNP website today, you’ll find it’s a single page “temporary” site. Temporary? On the day of the general election? Maybe visiting one of the other site pages, as indexed on Google, would shine some light… A message from Simon Bennett due to the volume of phone calls and emails [...]
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Things that I learnt holding my first competition
I’ve never run a competition before and, thanks to Creative, my first opportunity has just concluded. And what did I learn? Well, a lot. First of all, the questions I should be asking the prize providers. Instead I kept badgering them as I kept asking some pretty basic questions… When do you want the competition [...]
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