Find My iPhone

April 3rd, 2012

It isn’t the first time in the last few months that I’ve left my phone behind. It also isn’t the first time technology helped me retrieve it. Back in January I left my phone in a taxi. I called Darren on Skype and he called my phone and requested that he return my phone to [...]


Stamp of Approval

November 22nd, 2011

Part of the beauty of social networking for me has always been personal recommendations; I could care less what the guy who writes for the local paper thinks of the latest blockbuster, instead I look for thoughts of those I know through a variety of online platforms. Rather than ask 20 friends what they think [...]


My iPhone Knows Where I’ve Been

April 20th, 2011

Research released today by Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden has shown that both the iPhone and 3G iPad have been storing location data of where the devices have been. The researches put together a Mac app titled ‘iPhone Tracker‘ which displays the data and makes it look pretty. Many people do have one or two [...]


Chocolate from the Falls, lunch on the Shankill – I’m so cross-community I have no community

January 22nd, 2011

Yesterday morning I found myself on the Falls Road, then, on a whim, I was taking in the sights on the Shankill. Remembering that I don’t have a sign on my back, nor that I see anyone as any different from myself, but rather, they’re just people, from Belfast. And providing I stay on the [...]


Things I Don’t Like About The iPhone

August 11th, 2010

The iPhone (3Gs) is bloody beautiful! I still can’t believe some of the stuff it does, it does those things so well — and it’s a phone! I’ve owned an iPod Touch for almost a year and gotten to know many of the apps, its general workings (does being able to almost touch-type count for [...]