Rob’s Digital Life

My Proporta Mobile USB charger just turned up and in the package was an Earl Grey Tea Bag!
The device is pretty neat too, it used mini usb to charge, so I can carry just one mini usb cable around (the same one as used to connect the Phone to the PC) and I can [...]

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Our vacation is fast approaching so it’s time to get the kit sorted out ready. I’m currently wiping all the CF memory cards for my Canon 400D, that’s 2 x 2GB and 1 x 4GB cards, which is plenty even shooting in RAW for me. We’ve got a wedding down in Cardiff straight after our [...]

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Despite what people have been saying Nokia must have improved the built in email client of the new E series devices. I’ve been using the E66 and have set up the email client to use imap with gmail and it’s worked perfect for the last week. The idle works as it should, it sits there [...]

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I’m pulling the trigger on Twitter today and will slowly pull out of all things Twitter. I’m not the first by any stretch and I think Twitter has had it coming. Leo also pulled the trigger too, and I think it’ll be the start of the end for Twitter.
I just went to my Twitter page [...]

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There’s a great article in the New York Times about Luis Suarez and his use of social networking tools to reduce his email. It’s a great article as it’s a huge sales pitch on how IBM can help your business become more productive by installing the social network tools that help.
I’ve written before on Facebook [...]

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I upgraded the share online app on my N95 the other day to the new version 3.0. That added a nice little comments and new photo’s tracker to the homw screen and allows me to read the comments on my flickr pictures on my N95 which is great.

I also installed the Beta App location tagger, [...]

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Just going through my Google reader when I read JP’s street cred post, No 10 is on twitter. That’s pretty cool and it’s obviously pretty new as they are replying to @responses.
But one of the tweets also states they are on Flickr too, so my regard for the people behind the shiny black doors goes [...]

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I’ve been playing (a little) with Ovi over the past 24 hours and I’ve been having this nagging feeling about my media (mostly photos) ending up all over the place on the web. Reading Mike’s post this morning has shown that I’m not alone in this feeling of lack of control or centralisation. I don’t [...]

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Over on SMS Text News guest blogger James Whatley or Whatleydude to his adoring fans has posted on his “Joy of Ku”. This being his love for Jaiku.
First off – without presuming too much – a brief explanation:
What is Jaiku?
* Micro-blogging (like twitter)* Limited to 140 characters (like Twitter) to your first ‘Jaiku’* Jaikus start [...]

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Just testing out Qumana offline blog posting tool and installing the new beta of FF has given me the reason to post.
The new beta of FF is really quick, it launches quickly, opens pages quickly that’s a big improvement on the old version.
There are some other subtle differences, Home has moved to the bookmarks toolbar, [...]

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Like Tabletblog, I listened to TWiT 134 and found my self shouting at my iPod several times. Tabletblog had a problem with them not thinking of the N800 as the suitable podcast device. What Tabletblog didn’t mention and almost makes it worse is that Dave Winer has an N800.
But I agree with Tabletblog there [...]

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I’ve managed to snag one of the Dopplr beta invites to Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s new location service. I wouldn’t rush to track down and invite as there’s nothing there right now. The web site is pretty basic, with a promise of a gallery of applications of which there are currently none.
The idea is good, it’s [...]

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I’ve been giving the S60 app twibble a location aware twitter client, a whirl over the last few days and it’s a great little app. It’s got a couple of little neat tricks that make it interesting, the first is either to post using your data connection, or turn the post into an SMS [...]

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Reports already suggest that the ARPU is falling and that the uptake in data is expected to fill the gap. So we know that Carriers are pinning their future on the update of data packages both capped and unlimited.
So we’ve reached the point where an unlimited service costs $99 and now following on from what [...]

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Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer - and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of “Alias,” right?
Unfortunately, the scenario isn’t fictional. In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded [...]

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