My T-Mobile contract came to a premature end this week as I moved onto Vodafone, whose call package should permit me to call Hanni with less risk of my belongings being repossessed. The flip is that I’ve had to send away the Nokia N95 that I was so enjoying.

Small blessings, I suppose. But I never [...]

It’s what computers have become; a marketing slogan that’s over ambitious, pretentious and painfully accurate all at once.

Most computers you could buy today are abysmally bloated, confusing monstrosities of metal and software. The Nokia N95 is the same: It crams more features into a handset than previously possible, and proceeds to make each and every [...]

Publication of my mini Hack Day London effort to generate an RSS feed from a Flickr photoset.

For my Last.FM update and syncing needs I’ve long been a user of iScrobbler — rather than the official client. It’s minimal, tidy and provides funcational-enough iPod updating too.

There’s a new beta of 1.5 just come out and it’s got a really neat new integration of the ‘Love’ and ‘Ban’ buttons normally associated only with Last.FM [...]

Another short post after the lengthy pieces of recent days. The BBC are developing a fabulous piece of software called ‘iPlayer’. It will let you watch BBC television and radio broadcasts in full over the internet for periods of time after their first airing. I want it now.

However, it appears that Microsoft have lobbied in [...]