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Someone had way too much time on their hands, for Mario fans everywhere: http://youtu.be/QAue4hnH8-A

I’ve been using Bloglines for a while now to keep up to date with RSS feeds and their associated sites, including news, webcomics, blogs and so on. It’s a great web application for organising feeds and keeping track of which articles are unread. It also has the added perk of grabbing the contents of feeds even when I’m offline, ready for me to read when I log in next.

The problem with Bloglines is that it’s buggy, occasionally failing to actually display feeds, and quite resource hungry for the browser such that mobile browsers – even on the powerhouse that is the N900 – struggle with it. It’s also not very finger friendly for the aforementioned device.

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While many of you following me don’t care, I feel it worth mentioning to any #n900 waiting on the PR1.2 firmware, it’s finally out today :)

It makes me sad that the O2 #joggler is out of stock… I bet they don’t get it restocked before the end of their special offer price either

There are a few tips and tricks out there for the N900 that you’ll only really come across if you’re a regular on the Maemo Talk forums. The same is probably true for other devices and their respective forums to some extent, but the Maemo community seems to be particularly active. This quick guide to backing up text messages on the n900 is a little different as it results in something that’s actually readable on your PC, and falls into the aforementioned category of guides that don’t seem to be available elsewhere.

One thing that I did appreciate about the n900 was that doing a complete flashing of the firmware didn’t wipe things like the text message log, and a lot of application settings survive presumably by being safely stored in the mass storage somewhere. Sadly, the downside of this is that when an application breaks (most notably in my case, the built in Ovi Maps), there’s no obvious way to fix it, including reflashing the firmware. Nokia do, however, offer blank image of for the mass storage that you can ‘flash’ onto the device. Before doing this though, I’d like to take a copy of a few things that I do want to keep…

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So, is anyone out there that might be interested in working with me on a general geekery and chatter podcast in the future?

I’ve been out of touch for a while, but I’ve recently been pondering picking up where I originally intended to start with this blog, and look at a few technologies I’ve come across online.

I recently started keeping up with Leo Laporte’s TWIT podcasts, with its very American technology content with accompanying chatter. While it is very much put together from a US of A perspective, they do make nods to us over here in Europe where its relevant, and he and his guests genuinely seem to be having a good time. Anyway, they have a habit of mentioning technologies, software and links that inspire my curiousity. Since I’m often out and about while listening, and don’t want to be distracted from the podcast too much, I note things down on my trusty N900 to look up later. Given this usually inspires only 2 or 3 items per podcast, I suspect that these may be a source of many posts on here in the future, given my current track record of posting at least. It’s certainly more manageable than trying to put up content covering everything I think is cool on Engadget or Gizmodo…

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As with my previous blogging attempts, it would seem I’ve been failing to actually post content on here in the last couple of months. It’s hard to imagine that it’s almost 6 months since I kicked off this site’s new existence.

In the same vein, I signed up for Twitter to fall in behind other tech-enthusiasts everywhere. I posted occasionally, but tried to keep up with my friends’ activities more often. This was assisted by my Nokia N97 after purchasing a license for Gravity. This made using Twitter an absolute pleasure, and I found myself posting (slightly) more often and glancing at the updates from others throughout the day. However, I then shifted over to my Nokia N900, and its inability to run any Twitter apps even close to Gravity in quality and features…

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Considering starting a podcast, but can’t decide whether I’d rather cover geeky tech topics or gaming topics…

My n900 can handle google wave (albeit very slowly, barely function). I wonder how many other mobiles can do that…