Technology

Does yours pop-up in the bottom right of your screen (just at that annoying moment where you need to get to the thing that’s hidden by it!?!?). If so take a look at J4mie’s GMail Notifier Lamp.

photo credit: greg westfall

I need to have a play with this at some point as these ads occasionally actually catch my eye… Unlike Google Adsense which I seem these days to have a strange awareness about and actually manage to not see!

Aaron at Full Tilt Blogging pointed it out, the Page Peel script!

In answer to Lisa’s question!

I’ve looked at these, and although they ‘re a nice phone (and even nicer with the 3G option) I think I’ll give it a miss at the moment…

I’m still loving my HTC Trinity, but might be tempted into the HTC Touch Diamond in the not too distant future (I’d be more tempted if it had a memory card slot - actually not just tempted - I’d want one right now!!!).

As an aside - check out Lisa’s hunt for Harry Potter with her G3 Canadian iPhone in London!

I love my EEE, it’s fantastic - I’ll be taking it on holiday instead of the Philips X53 for the first time this year.

It does everything, bar one thing….. Manage my iPod. I used to be able to switch albums on the iPod at the end of every day, a quick sync and new music or podcasts for tomorrow - holidays are a great time for catching up on podcasts!

Alright I know that with the EEE the hard drive probably couldn’t hold all my music, but I’d be willing to invest in a light external USB hard drive (as recommended by), as I only have a 2GB Nano.

I’ve read about getting iTunes working under Crossover, or Wine. Both of these solutions seem to be frought with a problems trying to get something to run on a box that it was never designed for!

Whilst looking at possible random solutions this week, I stumbled across Songbird based on the Mozilla platform (like all things at Mozilla developers). As Mark O’Neill says, it’s always worth being interested in anything based on this platform that the Mozilla guys thing is worth linking to!

One of the major advantages I noted (apart from it being open source and having all the tabs and whistles you’d expect from Mozilla), is that you can choose to buy music from iTunes, Amazon’s MP3 store and eMusic.

Mark notes another problem:

One problem I have found is that you cannot run iTunes music files on both iTunes and Songbird at the same time. So if you want to run iTunes music on Songbird, you must first de-authorize and uninstall iTunes from your computer. This is the hated DRM copy protection at work, not the fault of Songbird.

Mark says it’s not an iTunes killer yet, but it does hold the same kind of promise that Firefox did when you started looking at it alongside Internet Explorer. This is a project I’ll be watching!

If/when I do get round to do thing, I’d definitely be following the guide that Ross wrote - “How to use Songbird to manage your iPod“

I’m liking Creatope’s Card Cable Organizer! Using an old card, a whole punch and a pair of scissors you can have your cables organised in minutes (and not so knotted as mine are in cable-ties!).

More to the point if I do this with my Visa card, I’ll stop spending money anyway because I won’t have it with me - a win, win situation!

photo credit: Peter Kaminski

I’ve installed CommentLuv here today, to reward my comment authors more (particularly now the comment policy is in force and I feel perfectly happy about blowing away any comments that are spammy or I don’t like! )

We all love comments, but CommentLuv takes this one step further and places a direct link to the comment authors latest post - underneath the comment.

They promote both their site (using the URL field of the comment), and their latest post - now that is quite a reward for engaging with you!

It will automatically fetch your latest post from your feed to display it and in the latest version the comment author can specify their feed by putting their feed url in between [feed] and [/feed] at the end of their comment.

What are you waiting for? Try it now!

I synced my new SPV M700 with my work PC today, it did it again and created duplicates of every single item in my Contacts (that took at least 10 mins), it’s still working on the Tasks, and Calendar (I dread to think what it will do given the size of my Calendar!).

I did tell it to combine items but that’s because I don’t want it to lose anything… But now I’d have to spend several hours de-duping…

I’ve found several tools which I’m going to try in the vain hope that they’ll sort the problems out..

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail_duplicates.asp
http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-software/267793/dupededupe-remove-duplicate-contacts/

Update: The DupeDeDupe software sorted my Contact out free of charge, and it’s probably quicker just to change the view in Outlook and remove the Calendar items by hand!
photo credit: Pacdog