Category Archives: Technology

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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iPlayer on MCE – very promising indeed

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Simon

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

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Simon

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

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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Poundland blog

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Simon

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

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Simon

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

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Simon

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

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Simon

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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