Posted by Louise on Apr 8, 2010 in
Mobile technology I’m in Scotland at the moment. Not too cold, dry (for the time being) but definitely windy. I’m just heading into Edinburgh on the train. I missed the earlier one by about a minute because the time table has changed slightly so I had to sit in the car and browse Marketplace. This is the Microsoft equivalent of The App Store or whatever iphone people rave about. Not much on it currently but most of what is there is useless so I guess it is quite similar to the app store. Anyway, I bought a little app that tells me when trains are due. Only 1.69. I know I can get this info for free but it is a hassle and takes ages to download the graphics. Traintimes, the app I bought, does it all from one page. Really, really simple to use too. It was certainly 1.69 well spent.
Tags: mobile phone, mobile tech, PDAs
Posted by Louise on Aug 31, 2009 in
Mobile technology I’ve solved the problems of the small eeePC hard drive. Nick and I have each bought a brand new Acer Aspire One! They have a hard drive of 160 GB. The screen is larger than the eeePC (10.2 cm instead of 7.0 cm) and the processor is faster. They come with Windows XP Home and 1 GB of ram which we got PC world to upgrade to 2 GB. We had to take out accidental damage cover but we get the first month free and can cancel after that! We just paid £14.99 extra for the ram upgrade which was a real bargain.
It is a bit of a challenge to see who can make their computer the fastest and who will have the most hard drive free. I reckon I’ll win the first bit but as Nick is not needing to install Outlook or OneNote he’ll win the second.
I still have to see if I can get ShareCalendar working but as I know a bit more about how it works and I’ll be able to do the Office updates I’m more confident about it working. Currently I’m still ploughing through the Windows updates. I don’t think I’ll have time ‘till Friday night to see if I can get it working :-(.
Tags: Aspire One, calendars, mobile tech
Posted by Louise on Jul 7, 2009 in
Images,
Mobile technology This is a picture of one of the guns at Dunbar barracks. I took it way back in April 2008 but am posting it as an experiment with lifeblog.
Tags: Images, mobile phone, mobile tech
I’ve been looking for cool plugins for Wordpress for a few days now. I have of course updated and uploaded Mobile WP by Alex King. This plugin is great for mobile users (phone, PDA and that thing by Apple). This plugin is so great I actually PayPal’d a donation to Alex when I first found it. What it does is that when someone vistits your WP blog on their mobile device it automatically shows a text only version. Great if you are in a non-3G area. I think you can post with it too. I haven’t used it for that because when I am away from my wired (as opposed to bluetooth) keyboard I blog by email. Just for the record, Mobile WP does work with Wordpress 2.3.
My next plugin to try is Cool Player. This plugin embeds video into your blog. I couldn’t find any updates for it though…
Tags: mobile tech, plugins, Wordpress
