October 15th, 2007
I am almost done editing the fifth episode of Desert Island Geek (nope, no spoilers) and thought it ideal timing to put a call out for guests. I have a whole bunch of people I am scheduling with and targeting to be on the show, but would much prefer the lineup to consist mostly of [...]
October 8th, 2007
One of the strengths of podcasts is the control the audience has over where and when they consume the content they are interested in. Tapping into this, traditional radio has been repurposing existing content into podcast format - the BBC in the UK being a prime example. But there is a huge amount of streaming [...]
October 8th, 2007
I’m very happy with my Nokia E61i, but have been struggling to get it synchronised with my mac for a couple of weeks. It seems that since OSX 10.4.9, E61 synchronisation is out of the box, but still not E61i.
Some searching produced instructions here at MacOSXHints.com which means manually editing the iSync data files, [...]
September 5th, 2007
One post on this blog gets a significantly higher proportion of spam comment hits than any other. Today provided a little gem in my moderation list.
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of [...]
July 30th, 2007
Each episode, we invite one self confessed geek to spend a little time on the Island. But there’s a catch: they may bring along five, and only five, of their most important, cannot live without, geek items!
In this first episode, the Island welcomes geek, podcaster, and Tea and Podcasts management, Peter Cooper. Discover which website, [...]
July 14th, 2007
I discovered a little problem this weekend using the ZoomH4 field recorder: some audio files were not correctly writing to the SD card, delivering a “card error” alert at the end of the recording. This was worrying after recording several sound segments in locations I rarely visit.
The problem surfaces after the first two or three [...]
July 10th, 2007
I recently attended a Geek Dinner with Julie Howell, Director of Accessibility for online agency Fortune Cookie. Accessibility is something most web developers are aware of but generally merely skim the surface of when creating websites.
Like so many web developers I have only given Accessibility - the need to ensure that everyone can easily access [...]
June 30th, 2007
I just got a reminder email from Friends Reunited - remember them? Apparently they are sad that I’ve not logged in for a while, then proceeded to explain all the ‘great things’ I can do at the site. Then it came to me… these guys totally let the whole social network thing pass them by.
They [...]