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 …
Tag: Twitter
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 …
Jul 14 2011
Indirect Twitter Integration in Mango Update for Windows Phone
One of the great features of Windows Phone 7 is its ability to integrate with social networking services such as Facebook directly through the phone and other services such as YouTube, WordPress LinkedIn through your Windows Live account to your Windows Phone. Of course, the most glaring omission at the moment is Twitter. Sure, you …
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 …
May 10 2011
2011 Panasonic Home Entertainment Product Launch, Ahoy!
If you’ve been following the blog you might be aware that I have been invited to Panasonic’s new home entertainment product lunch which is taking place tomorrow night (Wednesday May 11th, 2011) . This is a bit special for me (and a handful of other people invited by Panasonic) as normally these events are exclusive …
May 03 2011
Twitters Snaps Up TweetDeck
Twitter has been on a trip to the twitter client buffet a couples of times it seems after buying Tweetie last year and now TweetDeck this month. TweetDeck is one of the more popular cross-platform clients available on Windows, MacOS X, Android and iOS and it can connect to a variety of social networks including …
Apr 15 2011
NAB Caught Napping Once Again
One way or another, many of us have been affected by the National Australia Bank (NAB) again suffering problems with updating the accounts of its many customers. This comes nearly six months after a similar incident that affected people right around the country. The Twitter account for NAB copped a pasting today whilst all the …
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 …
Feb 02 2011
Keep Informed on Cyclone Yasi
Down under, it’s fairly well known that a mammoth cyclone in the form of Tropical Cyclone Yasi is heading for far north Queensland (FNQ). The international coverage on this natural event has been phenomenal which has been great in creating awareness of this impending disaster but what is more important is keeping those affected informed. …
Dec 20 2010
HTTPS Everywhere – An Easier Way to Force SSL
Last month, I covered how you could use Firefox with the NoScript add-on to force Secure HTTP (HTTPS) in order to protect yourself when using social networking websites on an unprotected wireless network or general usage anywhere else. The NoScript solution works fine but if you are less technically minded it could be a bit …
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