Jul22

Wordpress for iPhone!

Wordpress have been putting out teasers for their open source iPhone client for a couple of weeks now and I’ve been keeping one eye eagerly on the app store ever since.

Finally it’s here and I’m typing this post on my phone and do you know what it’s pretty damn good. They don’t seem to have compromised on functionality to cram things in to the interface and hooking it up to a self hosted blog is a snap.

They’ve even done a very nice job of integrating safari into the client to show a live preview of your post. Only…

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Jul11

iPhone 3G - launched, bought, but not there yet…

7.02am - Bradford, West Yorkshire, one hour until the O2 store opens and as I pull into the car park I notice quite a few cars. It’ll be the staff I tell myself as I round the corner and find a queue of 21 people (some with folding chairs) waiting for the store to open.

 So, at least 21 people are sadder than me, which is a start!

 Over the next hour, I got chatting with some of the other people in the queue, including a couple of magicians who were practicing their sleight of hand coin tricks. The O2 staff were…

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Jun26

BBC iPlayer goes up to 11!

So, there I was this evening, with unusually a free evening and nothing planned…and there’s nothing on television. Apart from Heroes later, but i’ve already recorded that. So I fired up the iPlayer to see if it had anything to offer.

Since I last looked (and apologies if this is old news) they’ve launched a new beta version with a much more comprehensive interface. It makes it much quicker to browse through programmes with a more TV guide like approach. They’ve also made it easier to find multiple episodes of the same programme and group them together. But best…

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