Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
An experiment to see if I can upload a picture direct from my Picasa to this wordpress blog. As you can see it worked using dracas Picasa album uploader the picture is of the outside Ice skating rink in Les Gets central square. It first refused to instal the button in Picasa. in the end […]
Thanks to a post by Scoble I managed to get a beta sign up to Memolane. Memolane takes my feeds from, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, last.fm, foursquare, Tripit, YouTube & My own website and then displays the aggregated feed contents as an horizontal time line – really cool to see all my travels displayed this […]
Experimenting with the Blackbird Pie Plugin . What should appear is Sally’s latest tweet! [blackbirdpie id=”15314138607652864″] Worked very well indeed! Just some confusion initially as there are no setup options: Just click on the Blackbird in the WordPress editor. Clicking on the Blackbird enables you to search for Twitter by Username, URL or tweet ID […]
Today Google launched their “Google Instant” search engine they say “Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type” As with any new search engine my first test is a vanity test 🙂 How much of my name do I have to type to find any or all of my sites. […]
The star studded cast of developers & investors at Movity have created this really neat visualition of all my Foursquare logins using their weeplaces website. Its amazing to see a playback of my walks and bike rides coupled with my movements around Cambridge. To see all my logins, Click on the map and then click […]
Experimenting with the WordPress app on my new iPad. Beginning to love the iPad especially the HUGE Fonts available, in fact it’s rather weird going back to the iPhone! the iPad is ideal for us oldies with failing eyesight. A problem for new entrants is that you need a computer & iTunes account to get […]
Just trying out the new scribefire extension for chrome, looking good so far. Lets insert an image:- Oh dear it needs a url, so already has to be on the web. No browse option Dragging images in only gives this Photo Booth-1.jpg Lets add a link to Mr Frisk winning the Grand National when Em was […]
I spent tonight shortening all my USB cables so that my electronics can pack away neatly. In the past I have carried a rats nest of cables & Power Supplies with me. The result of tonight’s endeavours is shown above. It’s now below 2Kg including the Asus power supply, Garmin GPS, Olympus uTough camera, Eee […]
An experiment in using the Word This extension in the Chrome browser. I started on my Flickr homepage, so this is the link it auto added to the post Flickr: Your Photostream. Now lets add an image Wow that was neat! & quick Seems pretty good for adding posts about a website. However, it seems […]
If your iPhone contract has run out (or about to) then you can ask O2 to ‘unlock’ your iPhone. Once unlocked you can get a PAC code and transfer your existing number to T-Mobile. Advantages The £10 a month unlimited internet and texts for life is a great deal for anyone, like me, who doesn’t […]
