Avoiding the cost of T-Mobile UK Voicemail – Part One
I’ve been a T-Mobile UK customer for donkeys years since when it was One2One. In fact until a few months…
When radio DJs move on – ignore or acknowledge?
What should a radio station do..
Praise for BBC Children In Need Donation mobile user experience
For the benefit of any non UK readers ‘Children In Need’ is a charity who hold an annual ‘telethon’ on…
Hello (twitter) World
Those of a certain technical bent will be familiar with the concept of of the ‘hello world’ exercise when learning…
Oops… you need a Google Profile to use google+
I got sent an invite to google+ the other day
Ever regret starting a job….updates, “slow”books, foreign language drama and radio out-takes
So at what many people would deem to be “tea time” I embarked on what I thought would be a…
Tuesday Tech Tip – When your Samba and linux passwords don’t match…
…you spend half an hour banging your head against the virtual wall. Many months ago on my blog I suggested…
RAJAR ‘other listening’
My thoughts on what ‘Other listening’ can and does mean…
Japan Earthquake 2011
A few interesting web links…
Shiny new nice things (a.k.a WordPress 3.1)
Rather spookily I’d been reading some things about nice new things in the upcoming WordPress version 3.1, such as in…
You won’t have to listen to radio stations named after chocolate bars forever
With talk of loss of ‘heritage radio brands’..
Absolute Pure Flow
No it’s not yet another new station from the nice people at Absolute Radio, rather this is a posting about…
Too many tweets make a….
Last year, our now Prime Minister, David Cameron made the legendary comment about Twitter. Admittedly on Absolute Radio not Radio…
Ant and Dec take on the classics
Just one that amused me – PSquared’s music scheduling software, Autotrack, has an option to do a web lookup on…
Bite a discount on your train station coffee
If you are a regular commuter via mainline train stations in the UK you’ve probably picked up your morning cappuccino…
The magic iPad effect
Up till now I,ve been not that impressed with the idea of getting an iPad. After all what is it…
Using current drive letter in batch script on a usb drive which changes drives letters
Following on from lasts week tip about Robocopy, if you are backing up to a USB drive there is a…
Robocopy your backup friend
My new favourite tool for doing backups is Robocopy. A little microsoft utility, previously in the Microsoft Resource Kits, but…
3 mobile block port 25 on mobile broadband
Another Tuesday technical tip. I use 3’s mobile internet service – which works well for me (although I’ve never ventured…
Attempt to Save WordPress Post bug
Well for this weeks Tuesday Technical Tip I’m opting to mention something that is actually referred to on countless web…
Lame on Linux
Tuesday Technical Tip I want to automate generation of MP3 files on a linux box- so I need to install…
Microsoft Security Essentials exclude network paths from real time scan
My first real “Tuesday Technical Tip”: I’m currently using Microsoft Security Essentials on some machines on one site, with quite…
Technical Tips Tuesdays
One aim of this blog is to share small little tips or solutions to issues that I’ve found. I’ve got…
Chrome by Google – Made for (almost) everyone
Google have been on a big advertising campaign on bill boards and in wrap round front cover adverts in the…
What to write in my blog
So what to do with this website after much server and configuration tweaks to make the site run smooth, while…