Rob’s Digital Life

The courier dropped of a small package earlier this evening and my free upgrade from 3UK has turned up. It’s currently charging the 1500mAh battery contained within the smooth small white capsule.

You can see it’s smaller than both the Nokia handsets in the picture and come is the very fashionable white.

I’ve given it [...]

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This is good news from Google, it means I can stop the two different methods of getting email and the calendar to sync and just use one. Goosync wil be hit badly by this I guess, but Goosync also syncs contacts too (if you want to keep them seperate from gmail’s).
I’ve been using Nokia Messaging [...]

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We’ve had wireless for ages now and have had very few problems with it, until lately. As wi-fi has become more common, we’re seeing more and more networks when you do a wi-fi search. As a result they are competing on the channels, when I select channel 2 or 3, the network goes down [...]

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Back home from a week at Compton pool Farm, our third visit in 3 years, we go again in November for my Mum’s 60th staying in the Farmhouse that sleeps 11.

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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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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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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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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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A week or so back I sat down and did an interview with Haydn Shaughnessy from The Conversation Group via Skype. This isn’t an exact transcript of the interview, but my notes jotted down during the interview, which I’ve broken out into 3 topics based on the agenda laid out in an email from Hayden;
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The Guru posts a link to Nokia’s Press release on the link up between Orange and Nokia for Nokia Messaging. He also has some nice things to say about how open the Orange team was at the recent Developer camp.
The Nokia/Orange partnership will make it easy for Orange subscribers to setup Nokia Messaging straight on [...]

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Yesterday we had lunch in the Fox and Barrel Cotebrook and it was very nice indeed. I had the steak which was excellent, all the food was great, the pub layout is excellent too. We’ll be back for sure….

The Management is made up of;
Tony Steele – Chairman Fox & Barrel Limited, Chairman Tritech Group [...]

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..well it is in my view. Having had an E71 from WOM ages ago, I was seduced by the keyboard and the screen, but the camera was a little flaky. I purchased one back in September of last year and enjoyed using it, but the poor camera ruined the experience for me. Having two kids, [...]

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E71 Fanatics according to most sources spotted the new app, I’ve installed it and it works great on my E71. I need to sort out my channels and favs etc on Youtube it’s only every been a curiosity maybe I should take it a little more serious now.

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