Defcon Day One
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Defcon 16, day one couple of okay talks got the high tech badge. More on the badge later.
Archive for the ‘Geek Toys’ Category
Defcon 16, day one couple of okay talks got the high tech badge. More on the badge later.
New Jabber
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Well many moons ago I setup a jabber server so I could link all my IM accounts into one place. Way back then I tried Wildfire by Jive Software after a while I dumped it in favor of ejabberd as Java for running Wildfire on Linux was crippling the box. After ...
iPhone Apps
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Well first post from the new Wordpress iPhone blogging app. Seems pretty slick. There are a few more cool apps hitting the Apple appstore, the one that surprised me was the truphone VoIP app. All can be found with a quick search.
iPhone 3G Battery Life
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Something I noticed very quickly was how badly the battery can be hit by simple things on the iPhone 3G. Apple have a page of features that drain battery life, now problem is quite a few mean disabling features that you want to use like push email and wifi. I did ...
Hmmm..
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Well I'm seriously considering ending my now 15 year relationship as a Vodafone customer.. Switching to O2 and getting another iphone 3G in August when my current Vodafone contract expires. Looking at the Vodafone site I cannot find a price plan that can provide the level of data and minutes to ...
More iPhone 3G
Friday, July 11th, 2008Well after a day with it some more impressions. App Store, there are a lot of things there that do the same thing and lots of useless apps. There are some free apps, the best has got to be Apple Remote, which basically allows you to use your iPhone to control 'paired' ...
iPhone 3G first impressions
Friday, July 11th, 2008Well it arrived, even though on Monday I never actually fully completed the order process, due to the busted O2 update site. So I'm happy I didn't have to camp an O2 shop to get my iphone upgrade. So Exchange email, well it is awesome.. Just works.. It can be setup as ...
Ruby tools and Ruby Netcraft Module
Sunday, July 6th, 2008Well I've been busy putting together a bunch of Ruby versions of some tools we use at work, I've cleaned up the Google scripts for searching for emails within google. I've extended the tool into something that can pull from Yahoo! and MSN Live using their respective search APIs. These ...
Content Delivery
Friday, June 27th, 2008Something I found today which is really handy is you can use the Google App Engine as your own little Content Delivery Network. Having been playing a little with the Firebug Extension called YSlow that does the Yahoo! tests to see if a web site is optimized, I was looking at ...
Leopard has gone GM
Friday, October 19th, 2007Build 9A581 is the Gold Master for Apple OS X Leopard, which will hit the stores next week. You can pre-order from Apple, and if your unlucky enough to have bought a new Mac after 1st October then you can get the update for 6 pounds, otherwise it will cost ...
