I thought the iPhone was amazing when I had the chance to try one out a couple of months ago but hey, my iPod Touch arrived today and it feels like an iPhone on steroids! Impossibly slim, incredibly sharp\bright\rich screen (apple appear to have fixed whatever the problem was with the first batch) and the [...]

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For anyone working in front line IT support there’s an article in today’s online Daily Telegraph you might want to read..(!) Related a piece I wrote back in Jan 07 “IT ought to be simple” Blog – How To Work With Your Company’s IT Department

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I use a USB device for recording digital TV and radio called an elgato eye TV DTT USB stick . It’s twice expensive as it’s MS Windows equivalent (hauppauge) but several times more user-friendly and actually dead easy to use. It does what a Sky Plus does in EPG terms (an electronic equivalent of the [...]

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Best parody ever?….

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I have a 1st gen iPod nano that hides in the car ashtray that hooks up to a Kenwood “iPod enabled‘ car radio. A minor irritation is that to update the iPod I have to disconnect it, take it in the house, plug it into a computer and let it sync up the latest podcasts, [...]

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A very sad story – cyclist Adam Finley was killed last week in a road accident yet Minneapolis Police spent two days trying to establish Adam’s identity. Eventually the serial number of an iPod found on his person was used to identify him with help from staff at apple, full story here. Most apple products [...]

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I ordered a new iPod ‘Touch‘ earlier this evening mainly because of it’s generous 3.5″ screen size. Apple launched other iPods today which were equally as sexy but I have to say for an aging old fart like me some of the displays is getting quite difficult to read! Now I just have to twiddle [...]

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[video width="320" height="240"]http://philbridges.com/media/wmv/a_day_in_my_life-01092007.wmv[/video] I’m one of these sad muppets who has security cameras scattered around the house, so once in a while I check to see if they are actually still working. Above is Saturday September 1st 2007 compressed into just 34 seconds.. hi-lights include the milkman, the paperboy, ‘Shadow‘ the Whippet and Paula coming [...]

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