Category: tech related

  • One Hundred Million Geo-Tagged Images

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne Hundred Million is the number of photographs geotagged on flickr. That’s an impressive number. There’s an article about the news here but I want to explore the fun side of things. Whenever I take photographs with my mobile phone they’re geo tagged so where ever I am in the world…

  • Google Latitude

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGoogle latitude is an interesting app available at least on Nokia phones that allows you to see where your friends are according to their mobile phone. At the moment it’s limited just to your gmail friends but expand to include more. What makes this application interesting in the near future is…

  • Arte have a twitter channel for their programs

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago I noticed that twitter was tweeting their programs as they were on in German and this looked like a good idea. I commented it was a shame that they didn’t have the same in French. Within a few days it’s there. This morning I saw Arte’s tweet…

  • Using Panoman to get panoramic pictures wherever you are.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re looking for a software that makes creating panoramic shots easy with a phone such as the N95 then Panoman is an interesting option. It’s a software that you install on the phone and helps you take a series of pictures before stitching them together. It does this by showing…

  • Qik, Snowfall

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere, some qik snowfall, on the last day of the year

  • The N95 8gb, google maps and navigation

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf it’s something geeky you’ll see me learn how to use it. The most recent thing I’ve played with is the n95 8gb and google maps. This time though it was from a car rather than on foot and as a result it was far quicker to correct a mistake. I…

  • The Social media Misnomer

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I spent three hours chatting to people in Australia, Sweden and France via both twitter and plurk and it felt great and the reason for this is that it was personal. We hear so much and read even more about the social media and the social web but there is…

  • Gmail V 2.0 on the N95 8gb

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHaving just noticed that the new gmail application for S60 is out I have noticed some interesting new features, the most interesting of which for some of you may be the accounts tab so that you may use more than one gmail account at once. Other features include Chats, outbox, mobile…

  • Touch typing on the N95 8GB

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst at a number of concerts I had to type fast, very fast on a mobile phone keyboard. Within a very short time I began touch typing. I can type whilst looking around. That’s a useful feature of certain phones. It’s useful because it means the keyboard is well designed. Are…

  • From One Screen to the Next and the Next

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA good video looking at the evolution towards the fourth screen