XDA
Posted: Wed 22 February, 2006 Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts 4 Comments »Well, the new phone arrived yesterday. First impressions? It’s one cool bit of kit.
So far I’ve only moved all the stuff from the old Sony-Ericsson phone to the XDA, and then got it all set up. But yes, there’s one hell of a lot of stuff going on, and it’s going to be fun just sorting through all the things I can do with it. Pity it’s (currently) “only” got Internet Exploder Explorer on , but I’m sure I can get it to run something else as a web browser.
But I do have one question – what the fuck relevance or use does “Mobile Powerpoint” have ?!?
Colours
Posted: Tue 21 February, 2006 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky 2 Comments »In case you were wondering just what I was banging on about in the post below, I’ve just added a new CSS colour option “Inverted”, which takes the “Worksafe” colourscheme and – you’ve guessed it – pretty much inverts it.
Gordon, I’d be particularly interested in your thoughts about the two, and which works better.
But also, well, anyone who’s got a viewpoint – as always…
Farewell Sony-Ericsson, Hello iMate
Posted: Sat 18 February, 2006 Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts Leave a comment »About a year ago I upgraded my phone to the Sony-Ericsson K700i phone, which has in general served me pretty well. It’s had little things that annoy me – for instance, the keypad is utter crap for quick/easy typing of text-messages, and is a pain in the arse when it comes to words it decides it doesn’t know.
Anyway, come the end of the month it’s going to be time to upgrade/change phone again, and this time I’m heading off to the even geekier end of the market. In fact, the uber-geeky mini XDA, also known as the iMate K-JAM – god knows who comes up with the stupid names, but there we go.
I’ve been thinking about this upgrade for a while, because there’s a lot of stuff I simply don’t give a sod about when it comes to phones. I don’t care if it takes photos – I’m carrying a bloody 8megapixel digital SLR around with me, I don’t need a 1.3Megapixel camera, let’s be honest. I don’t care if it can play MP3s, videos, or whatever – again, I’ve a decent MP3 player (although the new U10 from iRiver looks interesting) and I’ve got the PSP too, so I don’t really need to watch anything on the mobile.
However, I do a fair amount of browsing etc., and at the end of the day, well, I’m a techie. So the XDA looks like it might sort out most of the things I need from a phone. Be interesting to see how the keyboard shapes up though…
Validation pt.2
Posted: Wed 15 February, 2006 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky Leave a comment »A quick thanks to Pete, who pointed out that I’d got something on this page that was breaking the “XHTML1.0 Transitional” validation.
All is fixed now – just a pesky border tag on one link. No idea how it got there, either. Ah well.
Measure Map
Posted: Wed 15 February, 2006 Filed under: Geeky 1 Comment »A while back I started using a web analysis package called Measure Map as there were rumours/cases where Nedstat (Now Webstats4u , or somesuch rubbish) was being naughty and serving pop-up ads on websites that used it.
Personally, I wasn’t all that impressed with Measure Map, and ended up sticking with Nedstat (whatever) for the basic daily stats, and using a different offline analysis tool for the big reports and figures. Measure Map hasn’t been able to discern between spam “readers” of posts and proper ones, for example, so the figures have always been a bit skewed. To me, it’s just not reliable.
Anyway, I got an email today saying that Google has bought up Measure Map, which may or may not be an interesting development.
So I said there was news, and here it is: I’m writing you to announce that Measure Map has been acquired by Google, effective today. For the near term, you will see no difference in its operations. In the not so distant future, you can expect great things from this acquisition. We couldn’t be happier to find such an ideal home for Measure Map, and are thrilled at the possibilities.
Moving PCs
Posted: Sat 11 February, 2006 Filed under: Geeky, Getting Organised, Thoughts 1 Comment »Over the weekend I will, with luck, be moving stuff over (at last) to a new PC. It’s not confirmed yet, as it depends on a couple of checks, and making sure the sodding thing works this time, but well, I’m optimistic. No idea why, but I am.
Anyway, as part of this process I was looking at what stuff I’ve got on the old PC, and what I’ll actually be wanting to move over. And quite honestly, the answer’s “Not Much”. I’ve got a whole load of stuff on there that I’ve used, or experimented with, and have then never used again. It’s just that I’ve also either a) never bothered to remove it, or b) removed it and been left with bits of unwanted crap that the uninstall process left hanging around.
There’s also a fair amount of stuff that I just don’t use any more. For example, DreamWeaver. I used to use it, and found it useful in a lot of ways – particularly for removing all the code cruft that Word puts into HTML pages. (At this juncture I should point out that various clients have given me Word documents with content in, or that they’ve had as “their website”, and which have then been converted by me into something that actually is a website. I’ve never used the “Save as HTML” option from any Micro$oft product.) but that’s the only thing I use it for.
Yes, there are programs and files I’ll be moving over to the new PC – TextPad, TopStyle, Crimson editor, that kind of thing. As well as all my photos, and all my music. But there’s one hell of a lot of stuff too that’s going to be either left on the old PC, or simply deleted when I format the old one later on…