Updated iphone app
Posted by Stephen | Filed under IT, generally
Hopefully the updated wordpress iPhone app will actually work. Then again….
Tags: iphonr
Wordress iPhone app sucks
Posted by Stephen | Filed under IT, generally
Title says it all!
Missing you
Posted by Stephen | Filed under Rants and Raves
Hello blog! Sorry I’ve not been here for a while. I met Twitter and have spent far too much time there…
I’ll make sure I come back as often as I can.
Life on general
Posted by Stephen | Filed under Rants and Raves
Ever feel that life is passing you by whilest you get bogged down with trivial crap?
Sigh….
Posted by Stephen | Filed under Rants and Raves
Spring
Posted by Stephen | Filed under Rants and Raves
Is it just me or does it feel like spring has arrived?
PDANet
Posted by Stephen | Filed under IT, generally
I have a the use of small utility for iPhone called PDANet. It basically turns your iPhone into a 3G modem. A bit like those ones from T-Mobile and 3 etc that you plug into your laptop for mobile “broadband”. Why pay for mobile “broadband” when you are already paying for a data service on your iPhone?
PDANet rquires an ad-hoc wireless network setup between your machine and the iPhone. It then piggybacks the 3G signal for internet access to your PC or laptop. Great for small amounts of surfing or IM chat at work, but forget downloading your torrents via the connection.
The cons however are small but have a seemingly big impact. The application does tend to crash. Often. And it can be a right pain the backside to get it working again. I’ve had to reboot the phone a few times to get it working. Mind you, what do you expect for free?
When it works, it is brilliant. When it fails (and it will fail on you) it is a pain. For once in a while sufing when bored or on a break at work, it certinley does for me. You will have to jailbreak your iPhone to use it though. No something I advocate. 
Stephen
Tags: iphone, jailbreak, PDANet
Wii Fit, Twitter and all things relevant
Posted by Stephen | Filed under Rants and Raves
I need to get back on the Wii Fit. Since Sharon had her operation I’ve not had the time to do anything. Well, maybe some Guitar Hero 3…Anyways Wii Fit. Tonight. I think.
Been following quite a few people on Twitter now. It’s getting in he way of Blogs and Facebook. Perhaps not in the way, but I’m moving towards it more and more. Away from the rest. It’s so much easier to drop a tweet out that to head over to facebook. With TwitterFon on my iPhone (moving to Tweetie soon) I can keep up to date with those followed and following much easier. Sorry Facebook, you are too cumbersome now. Less is more.
I occurred to me as well recently. Mobile phones. Most people have one. Most people use one. What I forget is that not everyone has an iPhone. I can access the ‘Net, email, Facebook, Twitter, you name it, any time of the day. Others can’t. I used to wonder why I didn’t get instant responses to emails. I forget some people don’t get them sent to their crappy Nokia or whatever straight away. Why people? Why!? Get an iPhone.
Tags: guitar hero 3, iphone, wii fit
Sundays
Posted by Stephen | Filed under Rants and Raves
A last Sunday afternoon. The “Mrs” had her first shower since the operation. Not pleasent to see the gunk and iodene pour out of her wounds. I’ll need to hand her sick line in to her work tomorrow. Joy.
Man U won another trophy for the cabinets, all be it the league cup. It’s addedti the club world cup, champions league trophy, the premiership trophy, the community shield. Maybe the FA cup soon? retaining the champions league must be the priority though.
I really fancy another night out soon. Need to wait till the patient is a bit better though.
A glass of wine to finish of my evening me thinks, before the ironing has to be done!
Tags: sunday
Posted by Stephen | Filed under IT, generally
I have two twitter feeds from the same account feeding into my wordpress blog just now. One provided by Twitter themselves and is a flash 9 based widgit and the other a plugin called twitter for wordpress.
I’ll see how they go…
I’m working on a project just now for integrating Linux systems authentication for logins, samba and sudoers with Active Directory. The product is called Centrify. Check it out if you need a solustion like this. Very good product.
Stephen.
