My Digital Life

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki I just signed up to Posterous.  It’s a pretty good idea, the site allows you to email in text, documents, music, images or video which it then posts up onto a blog.  What’s more it can then cross post the new blog onto twitter, flickr, wordpress etc.

It seems to work really well.  You can mail from a number of different email accounts or phones and setup personalised domains or sub-domains. 

The one little niggle I noticed - well its really something to add to a wish list - is that there’s no way of automatically filtering out email signatures.  All my mail accounts have them, and my work account also adds the usual company disclaimer after it leaves my computer or iPhone.  It’d be really great if Posterous was able to filter these out so that every post didn’t have my phone number and company address appended to it.

Still, a great idea I reckon!

From what I’ve read about Fav.or.it (if anyone has an invitation let me know!) you can write comments within the fav.or.it platform and they are written back to the blog itself. 

One of the things I like about Friendfeed is the commenting, but quite a lot of feedback and comment on Friendfeed will never be visible against the original media.  It would be good if Friendfeed did the same as Fav.or.it and wrote comments back to the source and attributed those comments to me.  Perhaps using a some sort of FF prefix - "Tom commented via Friendfeed:….".

This would be good for the end users as their comments would be more visible and attributed to them, and probably quite good for Friendfeed as comments on blogs, flickr etc. would spread the FF word. 

I figure it would save me a lot of time burning music to CD’s. 

In fact while I think of it… I’d like to be able to set all of the options on my car Radio from my laptop while I’m at work.  Maybe all the other car settings as well.  A silverlight app for that would be nice. 

And while I’m doing that maybe I could setup the sat-nav?  Not my contacts though, I enter those on my phone, the car can grab those from the mesh on its own.

Oh, and it would be quite cool if my cameras were meshified.  I’d like all the pictures I take to be meshed, and then I’d like to be able to tag the ones I want to put on Flickr.  It’d be easier to do than from my PDA though, the little buttons on the camera are a bit awkward.

Spotted a nice new service over over on Jason Langridge’s Blog.  Dashwire syncs Windows Mobile (and soon Symbian apparently) phones and PDA’s with a web service. 

I’ve only just signed up but it looks pretty cool.  It runs a client on the device that syncs all your basic phone info (contacts, bookmarks, SMS’s etc) as well as integrating with services like Flickr and Facebook  for photos.  Interestingly it can also post status updates (and other Tweeting goodness) to Twitter.

The killer bit of functionality for me is the ability to Sync configuration from device to device.  I’ve not tested it yet, but I change my phone loads as I get to test out new toys devices for work, so this could save me loads of time.

Check it out over on dashwire.com

It could be this is old news an I’m a bit behind, but last week my better half had me looking at digital photo frames for her mum.  I’ve never really looked that had at these before, they always seemed like a bit of a gimmick and I knew that if I had one I’d soon get bored of transferring pics using SD cards.  Having done some research though I find that there are a few companies now offering frames with wifi on board - which is cool by itself - but they’ve also started to appear with built in support for Flickr, Live, Webshots, RSS feeds and even email.  What a great idea!  Rather than continuously feeding your frame S cards, just point it at your Flickr photostream or at the interestingness RSS feed!

The two frames that I spotted were from estarling (RSS & Photobucket) and Digital Spectrum (Flickr, Live etc).  Though I’m sure there are more out there.