I went to the Australian Nokia Music Store launch last night at the Oxford Art Factory. Great venue, made more appealing by the fact that it’s walking distance from my place and there was free booze and nibblies. Oddly, there were hardly any other tech journos there. I spotted two that I didn’t know well [...]
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Hack Your Canon Camera
Got a Canon point-and-shoot? If the answer’s yes, you might have a more powerful camera on your hands than you realise. Wired How-To Wiki has a great article today on how to apply custom firmware on a Canon camera to super-charge its capabilities. The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit (CHDK) can add new features to your [...]
April Fools: When Does an Internet Identity Become Overwhelming?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about social networking and online presences. I’ve been blogging for over five years, and I’ve loved the whole interactivity of it all, with people providing feedback and comments and contributing to all the various social microcosms around the Internet – a phenomenon that’s certainly accelerated with the rapid [...]
Back to Windows Mobile After Using the iPhone
I’ve been using an iPhone exclusively for just a little over a month. Do I miss Windows Mobile? No, although in the early days of using it, I missed having a full-fledged PIM manager like Pocket Informant to keep track of my calendar and tasks in one place. But because I like to shake things [...]
The Dark and Seedy Underbelly of Gadget Blogging
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes of the world’s two most popular gadget blogs, Engadget and Gizmodo? In an industry where having a ten-minute scoop on a particular gadget or new technology can drive thousands of additional page views, the cut-throat competition between these two power brokers is quite extraordinary to observe, as [...]
Keep All Your Microblogs Updated With HelloTxt
Twitter account? Guilty. Jaiku account? Guilty. Never update those two microblogs after getting a Facebook page? Guilty. If you haven’t yet discovered the fun world of microblogging, it’s a great way of keeping tabs on what your friends and online acquaintances are up to without having to make the effort of actually contacting them directly. [...]
The Insanities of Ipod
I’m guilty of not making the most of playlists and smart playlists on iTunes. I haven’t even gotten around to filling my iPhone with music. As it is, I’ve only got one full album and a few stray songs that don’t even have their album art added and all the ID3 tags filled. Tsk tsk. [...]
8 Gadget Recommendations For When You Go On Holiday
Part of the lure of a being on holiday is the ability to get away from all of your tech distractions. But if you’re reading this site, then you’re probably like me and derive an inordinate amount of enjoyment from having all of your toys and gadgets with you wherever you go. There’s a lot [...]
Rights as a photographer
I saw a pretty ugly crash scene a few days ago in front of my building. A truck had ploughed into the front of a flat across the road, and there was a lot of police and emergency crew milling about. Thankfully no one was hurt, but when my boyfriend asked for my camera to [...]
Do I Dare Delete Windows?
I can totally relate to Jerry’s post about the iPhone being a gateway drug. I also bought an iPhone recently, only rather than it inspiring me to buy an Apple notebook (I’ve had a black MacBook since last year), it’s encouraged me to switch to using Mac OS 10.5 exclusively, as I’ve been mainly using [...]
How I turned the HTC Advantage into a laptop replacement
I’ve been quite the busy little Windows Mobile bee over the last couple of days. Inspired by Aura Mae’s comment that she used the HTC Advantage as something of a computer replacement, I set out to see whether I could achieve the same. Any boy, was I blown away by the results! The Advantage’s 5inch [...]
Finally! Fast, Reliable HTML Email For Blackberry
A huge shortcoming of Blackberry devices is they can’t natively display html email. Instead the Blackberry presents you with a bunch of urls and html code. Ugly, Ugly, Ugly. Recently rumor sites have reported that native html email capabilities will be coming “soon” from RIM. For those who can’t wait , I noticed that Empower [...]
Can the Zune satisfy my iPod touch gadget lust?
You know what I do whenever I have gadget envy? I give an existing gadget that’s close enough to the one I’m lusting over a nice little makeover, and then I try and convince myself that what I have is good enough – if not better – than what I was originally making eyes at. [...]
Shame file: Farewell dear JASJAR, it was short but sweet
Well, turns out my adventures with the JASJAR were embarrassingly short-lived. I’ll spare you the gory details, suffice to say that drinking on an empty stomach and being literally blind drunk does not go well with fumbling with an oversized phone and trying to call various people to come and rescue you from wherever you’ve [...]
Voice clips on Windows Live Messenger
f you’ve got a Windows Mobile 6 device and haven’t yet tried the voice clip feature, do it – it’s amazing! Instead of struggling with the touchscreen or keypad input, you just activate the voiceclip function, speak into the device’s microphone, and the other party gets an embedded voice clip within the chat window.Mitchell and [...]
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