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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I remember the day NTL arrived at our house. I was terribly excited. I don’t remember the exact year (and neither does my Mother, but that’s not totally relevant) it wasn’t long after Cable was introduced to NI that we got it. Of course at the time they were called CableTel, only becoming NTL in [...]

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 [...]

Just a quick note on the Twitter lists that were the talk of last week. Many people are seeing it as a popularity thing, or as a marketing thing. Twitter is, always has been, and always will be so many different things to different people. For me, it is so much. Keeping up with general [...]

I knew after last year’s success that BarcampBelfast09 would be even better. It isn’t for another 7 weeks, yet 134 have registered to attend with 25 speaking. If I remember correctly 100 of those registered after the first 2 or 3 days, by using only twitter to promote so far. With the rising number of [...]

Continuing from Monday’s post, I’d like to ask how you backup your data? How often? How many drives? What drive capacities? Do you do automated backups? What software do you use for automation? If you’re a Mac user do you use Time Machine (seems ridiculous not to – though I know some who don’t). Windows [...]

At the end of last week my Macbook Pro refused to startup past the grey loading screen. It’s a lovely little screen (beats anything MS has ever done!) but when it stays like that for 20 mins you know there’s a problem. It was time for a reformat. Firstly choosing ‘archive and install’ where all [...]

There are changes afoot, which you may have noticed, with occasional glitches or the lack of anything at this address. Basically I have been working on a variety of things behind the scenes, whilst attempting to keep everything looking as normal as possible in the mean time. Unfortunately though I have been left with very [...]