iPhone App of the day – BBC News

After some delays due to some concerns from the BBC Trust, the BBC News app is now available on the App Store.

Like many people, the BBC News website has always been one of my most visited sites, but I didn’t feel it was very well suited to the iPhone and ended up looking elsewhere for news, so the availability of the app was good news for me. Continue reading iPhone App of the day – BBC News

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iOS4 – the review

iOS4 is now here, live, and being downloaded all over the globe by thousands of iPhone and iPod Touch users.

Having downloaded it, and started to use it, what can I say about the new version? Continue reading iOS4 – the review

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iOS4 UK release awaited – 6pm?

After the news last week that the latest iPhone software would be released June 21st, the tech world is awaiting the actual release time. As usual Apple has not given a specific time, but the US release is expected at 10am PST, and therefore if the UK release occurs at the same moment, that would be 6pm BST (not 5pm as is being reported in some quarters – we are on summer time people!).

Why so much excitement?

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Hiding posts

For a while, I had an automated plugin on this site which created posts using my Google Reader shared items.  I decided to kill it because it made the site look very spammy, but I didn’t want to just delete the posts.

I’ve added a new plugin, WP Hide Post, which enable each post to be hidden [...]

iOS 4 to land next week?

Just a couple of months after it’s announcement, it appears that the new iPhone software, iOS 4, will be available on iTunes from Monday 21st. Can’t wait! [...]

What’s interested me posts – the end

A while back I decided it would be interesting to post items that interested me from my Google Reader onto this site.  Whilst it put some content on here when I didn’t write anything, it ended up looking a bit spammy so I’ve switched it off.  Now to see my shared items, I’ve installed a ‘Recommended [...]

iPhone OS 4

The preview event for the next iPhone operating system is just finishing up at Apple HQ in Cupertino.

It looks to be an exciting release, adding new functionality that many iPhone users have been looking for for some time.

These are the big changes: Continue reading iPhone OS 4

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5 ways the internet changed my life

The internet has changed the world!  For many of us it’s hard now to remember life without easy access to the net, and it has had a huge impact on most people’s lives.  So how has it changed my life:

1. Information- If you wanted to find out about a place, person, product etc only a few years ago, you’d likely have to buy something or visit somewhere, be it a magazine, newspaper, trip to a library etc.  Now we can find out about almost anything instantly.  I am one of those people where if a question comes up to which I don’t know the answer, I’ll be googling it almost immediately – I love finding out about new things, and the internet has made that incredibly easy! Continue reading 5 ways the internet changed my life

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