Rob’s Digital Life

I’ve been using my trusty E61i for a while now with intellisync running happily on it, but after I switched back to my N95 the E71 became spare so I dropped Intellisync onto it and thrust it into service instead of the E61i.
This turned into a bad move as it’s just so unusable, the device [...]

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A while back I bought a Barbour International Jacket, I had a Barbour years back and I out grew it, but it was bomb proof. So I had every faith that my new jacket would last equally as long.

But it didn’t work out like that, the stitching on the pocket started to come undone, [...]

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A few days back I tweeted the message below, wishing that the awesome app Gravity had the feature to forward tweets as an SMS.

A couple of days latter @janole tweets back;

Now that’s what I call a service. The reason behind the idea was that there were a few really funny tweets from @genehunt [...]

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There’s a lot of buzz on the web right now about Google voice going public. But there’s still a huge problem, text messages.
What people are looking to do is disconnect their number from their sim card. People are keen to have a number that’s theirs but not tied to a specific handset (voip, fixed [...]

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Just watched CNET Asia’s ‘prize fight’ between the iPhone 3G, 3GS and the Pre and I was shocked as to how long the Pre and the iPhone 3G takes to boot up. My N95 takes about 25 seconds including entering my Pin. But 1 minute and 46 seconds to boot that’s just nuts, 48 [...]

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I first used Linux several years back and it was a real struggle to use. You had to be a major league geek to get stuff working, installing software was a nightmare, even getting it on the net was a chore.

I set up a Linux box running Ubuntu 12 – 18 months back and it [...]

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Here’s some of the links to the content we created during Orange Business Live 09 in London, while I was there as one of the ‘bloggers’.
We had 26,500 visits to the site in just two days and gained 140 new followers on Twitter (2,700 in total), posted 39 Posterous articles and 9 full blog articles [...]

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It always make me jump when I’m scrolling through Google reader and an image appears with a mug shot of me in it. The above appeared a few days back and made me jump (again). All I can see is it’s interesting to see how other people interact with Facebook.Here’s the original post on intomobile.com

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oops…looks like I sat on one of the clues for the search for N.
I got this video emailed me to as a clue at 4pm on the 30th..a few hours before the really mobile project (if my EST to GMT conversions are correct)
Anyway, you’ve already seen the video and figured out the answer it’s here
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