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Daily Burn iPhone App Tour

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Simon

If you’re into your personal fitness then the DailyBurn is an essential tool for helping you reach your goals.  The free version (there is also Pro) lets you track what you’re eating, how much exercise you’re doing and track your … Continue reading →

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Recycling your mobile for profit

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Simon

I’ve just moved over to iPhone, as you’ll see if you browse about abit, but obviously I had a great phone before that, a Samsung i780 and before that a t-mobile touch plus (aka HTC Touch Dual) and before that an … Continue reading →

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Companies and brands I think are worth my time and money

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Simon

There are some companies and brands out there doing some really great stuff right now, and I thought I’d post up a list of why I like them and who they are.  All of these brands I feel some kind … Continue reading →

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The Daily Burn

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Simon

My current obsession, apart from the iPhone, is with loosing some weight (and gaining muscle) in time for our wedding next year and a great web service is helping me do it.  DailyBurn.com is a fantastic (and mainly free) site … Continue reading →

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Choosing a new laptop

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Simon

I recently started a project that meant it was time I needed a new laptop.  My previous laptop, which was a couple of years old, a Gateway laptop with 15” just wasn’t cutting it anymore.  Over time the battery had … Continue reading →

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Squezebox part 1: Squeezebox Duet Installation Experience

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Simon

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HelloTwitFace – now with Summize search!

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Simon

For the past week I’ve been toiling away on integrating Summize into HelloTwitFace.  Summize replaces TweetScan as HelloTwitFace’s replies and search tabs.  This was a challenge as I’d already built in RSS reading capabilities to read the TweetScan results, but … Continue reading →

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hellotwitface minor update

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Simon

Ok. That caught me out. I think twitter updated their xml format on Tuesday. On Wednesday hellotwitface stopped working, it wasn’t immediately obvious but they added an extra tag inbefore the user tags on the friends timeline. It’s now fixed … Continue reading →

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Wii-Fi Woes

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Simon

We just got a Wii.  It’s so cool!  What wasn’t so cool was the wifi situation. As you’ll know I’m using DDWRT on my Buffalo router, I’m gonna change to Tomato soon as something keeps dropping out, apparently Wii has … Continue reading →

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HelloTwitFace 2.0 Available

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Simon

It’s taken me a couple of weeks but here is version 2.0 of HelloTwitFace! This was quite a major update, the main portion of which was moving away from using m.twitter.com to using the API and the great new tweets … Continue reading →

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