Archive for September, 2010
Sharing with Pogoplug
My earlier post about bargain prices for Pogoplug, reminded me that I hadn’t shared about, erm, sharing on Pogoplug. Last week I went bowling with work. I was rubbish. But I did remember to take a camera – a cheap digital camera mind you. Most of the pictures that night were taken by a colleague, but I had [...]
No Power to Nintendo Wii!
Tonight I noticed there was no power light at all on my Wii – normally, even if off, the light on the front is red. Now, there was a brief power cut on Monday night and I wonder if it happened then. Anyway, I unplugged it (which involved moving the TV out and pulling out [...]
Pogoplug – just £49.99
Not content with superb reviews, the excellent Pogoplug can now be bought for just £49.99 from Dixons , Currys and PC World (whilst stocks last). Visit their website for further details of their product. You can also follow Pogoplug on Twitter , visit them on Facebook or even see their product in action on their YouTube channel .
WordPress Plugin Update – Simple URL Shortener
My plugin for shortening URLs has been updated (finally!) – I’ve been working on it for a ridiculous amount of time and have finally got around to completing the debugging and releasing it. It should really be version 2.0 as it’s now far off a complete re-write of the main code! Instead of using its own caching it now makes [...]
Xmarks is closing
For quite a few years now I’ve happily used Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) as my de-facto bookmarks synchroniser. However, they’ve now announced that within the next 90 days, Xmarks will be closing down. It’s mentioned on their blog, but not their site front page (and I probably wouldn’t have realised if I hadn’t seen the news elsewhere). It would appear [...]
Google Rich Snippets
Google have recently introduced a new “Rich Snippets” feature that allows you greater interactivity with the way your website results appear in their search results. Using one of 3 formats (microdata, microformats, or RDFa) you can add “meta data” about your site which Google will then pick up on and then format your results appropriately. [...]
WordPress & Spam Pingbacks
My posts often receive s – these are other blogs that have referenced my post. However, I still insist on manually authorising these, like comments, because they too can be prone to spam. These spam sites are often WordPress sites which are set up with plugins installed that are designed to trawl and integrate content [...]
Creative D200 Bluetooth Speaker
For those not wishing to splash out a few hundred pounds on the excellent Creative ZiiSound Bluetooth speakers , Creative have further ranges of Bluetooth speakers on the market. The D100′s are the cheapest, but if you want to retain the apt-X sound system of the ZiiSound, there’s the D200′s. Just £89.99, these are a lot cheaper than the £279.99 asking [...]
Samsung R530 Laptop
After much saving my daughter recently bought herself a laptop. Or rather, she gave me the money and left it to my judgement to get her one. I came across the Samsung R530 quite early on and took her to try it in Currys. What I didn’t realise at the time is the sheer number [...]
Logitech HD Webcam C510
With the arrival of my Dell PC running Windows 7, I had to wave goodbye to my Logitech Quickcam Zoom webcam. I’d had it for many years but Logitech had stopped providing drivers before Vista, let alone Windows 7. For the time being I’ve been using my daughter’s Quickcam Express (she doesn’t need it as [...]
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