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Powermat – great idea, shame about the range

Powermat – great idea, shame about the range

| June 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

Powermat is a company, and range of products, that allow you to charge your electrical gadgets via conductive charging – that’s the same technology that most electric toothbrushes use, where charge is sent to the device without having to physical plug it in. Instead you buy a “mat” which does the charging and each device has [...]

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Really, Sony? Really

Really, Sony? Really

| May 29, 2011 | 0 Comments

So went my favourite Tweet today. Playstation Network has gone down… again. No warnings and, worryingly, Sony are saying it’s due to “unscheduled maintenance” – the same thing they said after being recently hacked. It went down early afternoon GMT and there are now reports of it being restored – a number of hours ago in the US. [...]

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Designing WordPress & How to Build a Better Blog

Designing WordPress & How to Build a Better Blog

| March 28, 2011 | 0 Comments

I recently came across John O’Nolan, a UK based core member of WordPress specialising in the UI, because of a plugin that he’s released, named UI Labs . This offers experimental WordPress admin UI features and is a great way for John to try out and get feedback for his ideas. I have it installed and am [...]

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Do WordPress users need Jetpack?

Do WordPress users need Jetpack?

| March 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

Automattic, the people behind WordPress have announced JetPack . In essence, it’s a plugin for self-hosted WordPress owners that adds functionality that WordPress.com bloggers have had for a while. That sounds a good thing, right? Well, most of the plugins (bar one) are available separately from Automattic and, this way, you can at least only install the components [...]

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T-Mobile G2 Touch & MMS Picture Messages

T-Mobile G2 Touch & MMS Picture Messages

| March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

Well, I got it fixed in the end. After much discussion with T-Mobile on Twitter and then email, they phoned me. And it was fixed in, well, seconds. It turns out that you can’t download MMS message when you’re using Wi-Fi. Now, this maybe a T-Mobile limited thing, but when you received an MMS, you [...]

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Recommended Android Apps

Recommended Android Apps

| March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

I’ve had my HTC Hero now for over a month, and have already settled on a number of apps, after much installing, trialling and uninstalling. I therefore thought I’d share my results, all neatly categorised. I haven’t linked to any of the apps, as they should all be searchable in the Android Marketplace. Oh, and [...]

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Simple Twitter Data – WordPress plugin updated

Simple Twitter Data – WordPress plugin updated

| December 22, 2009

The Simple Twitter Data plugin is relatively new, but I’m already releasing version 1.2. That’s progress! This version includes a new data type of “image73″, which will return a 73 pixel version of a Twitter users profile picture, and a way of embedding Twitter data directly into your posts and pages. As always, details are [...]

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Simple Twitter Link – Plugin updated!

Simple Twitter Link – Plugin updated!

| December 14, 2009

The Simple Twitter Link plugin has been updated. First, and foremost, you can now pass various options to the URL shortening options. Secondly, a workaround is in place for a reported, known error .

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New versions of WordPress plugins released!

New versions of WordPress plugins released!

| November 10, 2009

Over the last few days I’ve released new versions of 3 of my WordPress plugins. Flu Pandemic Level – updated to version 1.1. Re-tested and code tidied up, but no major changes. Simple Wakoopa List – updated to version 2. This is a major update which introduces a new caching system, a new method of passing parameters, along with a slew [...]

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