Just a quick one tonight. If you have a smartphone with a removable battery (like an Android phone or a Windows Phone) you should take particular care to avoid accidentally or intentionally removing the battery while the device is powered up. Smartphones are essentially small computers with file systems contained within their internal storage. Pulling …
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Aug 14 2011
Windows Phone 7 Mango Beta 2 – First Impressions
Well, I have had about 24 hours with Mango Beta 2 for Windows Phone 7 and wanted to share with you some of my first impressions of this forthcoming update for this mobile platform. While it’s speculated for a September release, I could easily see this being delayed to October or later by the carrier …
Jun 18 2011
Why an Official Facebook App for iPad is Nearly Useless
Over the last few days there have been murmurs of an official Facebook app for the iPad which has been noticeably absent given high expectations when the iPad was launched last year. As time wore on, people came to accept that an app was just a fairytale and that using the full website in Safari …
Jun 06 2011
Google “Plus One” – A Human Factor in Search?
In what looks like a potential emulation of the concept of “liking” something on Facebook, Google quietly rolled the ability to “+1” (or “plus one”) a piece of content you might come across on the internet in the last few months. Furthermore, it also allows your searches to be enriched (or potentially polluted depending how …
May 21 2011
Share Book Quotes From Your Kindle to Twitter and Facebook
In my wanderings through the Kindle DX manual I came across a feature that I found quite intriguing in the form of being able to link your Kindle to social networking sites (at this stage Twitter and Facebook). I thought was a great little feature as I could share interesting or, more likely, humourous passages …
Apr 10 2011
Reppler: A Service to Monitor Your Facebook Activity
Just a quick note tonight A new service called Reppler was brought to my attention earlier in the week and so I am checking this out. This service advises that it can be used to provide an inward looking impression of your activities as well as what potentially inappropriate content you might be publishing to …
Mar 11 2011
Japan Quakes of March 2011
Most people would have seen or heard the news about the quakes in Japan over the last couple of days and my wife and I were certainly not expecting to be experiencing it first hand on the 35th floor of The Ritz-Carlton in Osaka. There is nothing like the sensation of a building swaying from …
Mar 07 2011
Beware of Facebook Offering to Switch Out of HTTPS
Here’s a quick article for this evening. If you enabled the setting in Facebook to use HTTPS wherever possible you might find that when you attempt to use certain Facebook applications such as Networked Blogs (which I use to publish the blog to Facebook) it will come up with this screen: What people may not realise …
Feb 07 2011
Enable Stronger Security in Facebook
Here’s a quick tip and some news that might have flown under the radar for some. After the fuss and debacle created by the release of FireSheep and the ability for people to easily impersonate others on popular social networking sites such as Facebook it has become apparent that Facebook have now provided the ability …
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