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Category Archives: Technology
HelloTwitFace – now with Summize search!
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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iPlayer on MCE – very promising indeed
I picked up on this from Ian’s blog but this has got to be one of the best Media Center plug-ins in development at the moment. If you’re in the uk you’ll have heard of the BBC iPlayer, basically we … Continue reading
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Freesat is comming…finally, oh and a recommendation for a FreeView aerial
Stuff-em-up-the-hill-backwards has an interesting piece with links etc, on Freesat’s launch today in the UK. From my point of view I can’t wait to see support for this in Media Center, there are some codec changes that need to occur … Continue reading
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hellotwitface minor update
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
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
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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Poundland blog
Who knew that this existed. Following on from my post last week, The best things in life are free…well a pound, I’m proud to say that I received a ping back yesterday from www.poundlandblog.co.uk that’s quoting what I’ve said about … Continue reading
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next hellotwitface update
Another hard night of geeking out and I’m almost there. There are a few ui changes to make and I still have to work out how to create a cab that doesn’t overwrite all files but its getting there. The … Continue reading
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HelloTwitFace update
I’m planning on updating HelloTwitFace at the weekend, probably late on Saturday with new feature I’ve been working on. I’m going to move the twitter tab away from simply using http://m.twitter.com to using the twitteroo 1.4 API to build my … Continue reading
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HelloTwitFace launch
I’ve just spent this evening on a bit of a GeekOut quest. I’ve just put the finishing touches on HelloTwitFace. It’s a really simple app that combines three of my favourite mobile sites, hellotxt, twitter and facebook. I think this … Continue reading
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