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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s all very well the n900 shipping with a link to download a trial of viewers for Excel, Word and Powerpoint files. It’s nice to see Nokia making the effort. The problems are that, while they do a very good job of rendering the files, they only do it for free for a month, and [...]
The n900 is a geek’s dream phone, there’s no doubt about that. I had a n800 before, so it’s not surprising that within the first week of having my new gadget I’ve started to try to recreate some of the tricks I used to play with. Previously I was just experimenting, whereas this time I’m [...]
It’s Upgrade Time for me, and while I find myself quite happy with my Nokia N97, that doesn’t mean I want to pass up the opportunity to get my hands on a shiny piece of new hardware. After all, the sooner I upgrade, the sooner I can do it again next time around – and [...]
I won’t pretend to know how each of these devices perform in reality – development teams count for a lot with a modern mobile device. Factors like the maturity of the operating system, the user interface, the availability of third party software, and so on can make or break any device regardless of how good [...]
GPS has always been a bit of an uncertain technology when it comes to mobile phones. Dedicated units for use in cars have always done a reasonably good job at working out where you are (and a variable job at working out how to get you somewhere), but the ability for a phone to pinpoint [...]
My current phone is a Nokia N97, Nokia’s current flagship N-Series “device that does everything”, and a handset that has received a wide range of reviews and commentaries from wondrous praise through to damning criticism. As with many products with such reviews, every review has some basis in truth. The lack of kinetic scrolling beyond the web [...]
Welcome to Gali, a new blog I’ve decided to put together as somewhere to express some of my thoughts. I suppose it will be considered to be something of a technology blog, but since I find myself primarily in a situation where I only have access to a selection of gadgets. The purpose of Gali [...]