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RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything – and it’s only five years away!
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And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It’s been “The Year of NFC” since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010.
Today [...]
As you may have guessed from previous posts, I love my Kindle. I often read late into the night, which either means keeping a light on and annoying my wife – or using a book light. Normally, I’d be happy just annoying her – but I can’t resist the allure of buying new technology!
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For years I was a BlackBerry fanboy. I remember snatching a departing colleague’s 6710 and lying to the IT department that I was authorised to have my email on my phone. I never looked back. Despite a brief flirtation with the Nokia N95 – I was a BlackBerry Boy through and through. Until [...]
I contribute code to Dabr – a mobile twitter client. It’s a great project to keep my hand in the world of PHP, APIs, SVN, and all the other tools that are essential to the modern online world.
Dabr’s strength for developers is two-fold
Dead easy to install. Unzip the files, fill in your [...]
Here’s the introduction I gave to London Web Standards for their State of the Browser conference.
Introduction to State of the Browser from London Web Standards on Vimeo.
Slideshare seem to have screwed up some of the formatting, but here are the slides.
“Oi!” shouted Whatleydude, “Get Dabr to show images from foursquare checkins!”
“Righty-ho sir!” I said. I started coding furiously. Of course, things are never quite as simple as I first thought….
So, how do we go from http://4sq.com/fgIWov
to
?
1 Expand the URL
Get your Bit.ly API Key.
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It looks like the Government is to force cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging.
QR codes on packets of coffin nails have appeared before as concept advertising. I thought it would be interesting to see if QR codes could be used for good.
Here’s my attempt (I’m not a graphics designer!)
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As I’ve mentioned before, Jasper Fforde is one of my favourite authors. His latest book “One of Our Thursdays is Missing” is a brilliant work of fiction – but contains a rather worrying flaw.
Well, I say a “worrying flaw” – I mean an error. All books contain errata – I think that’s [...]
I’ve been looking for a way to manage my backups. Burning DVDs and then leaving them around the house doesn’t strike me as a sensible way to preserve my data any more. I just want a simple way to thrust my files onto the cloud with the minimum of fuss.
The two big contenders I [...]
WARNING This article and pages it links to, contain information about pornography and sex education which may be offensive to Daily Mail readers. These are the hurried lunchtime writings of a chap with too much on his plate.
So, [...]
Like many people, I no longer wear a watch. I’ve got a phone which tells me the time and data – why do I need something cluttering my wrist?
The Evolution of the Watch
I wasn’t always this way, I used to love high-tech watches. Throughout my teenaged years I had one of [...]
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