After a few weeks waiting, O2 finally shipped an iPhone 3G to me on Tuesday, so I’ve spent a good few hours fiddling with it over the past few days. I thought I’d post up a few thoughts, really for my own benefit in keening some notes. Compared to the Windows Mobile phones I’m used […]
Author archives: Tom Basham
Blippr – a great idea.
Yesterday a friend pointed me at blippr.com, a new (I assume!) site that seems to merge twitter like short comments with reviews of books, music, movies and games. As a format it works really well, you just search for whatever movie you want to see reviews for and browse through the results. Overall ratings are […]
Mesh for Mac
Looks like the Mac Live Mesh client has been released – despite the ‘Microsoft Confidential – Internal Use Only’ lable at the bottom of the installation window :) Anyways, here it is: https://www.mesh.com/Web/MacDownload.aspx Update: I may have spoken to soon there… although the client installed properly, once it started it asks for an update but […]
Vista SP1 bigger than you thought?
It turns out that after installing SP1, the process leaves behind ~800MB of original Windows files to allow uninstallation. After filling up my old laptop last night a quick search found this article pointing to a cleanup utility that sits in the Windows\System32 folder. To run the utility, start a command prompt as an admin […]
Emailing iPhone configurations
Yesterday I was having a conversation with someone about the iPhone configuration utility and heard a comment asking why the iPhone allows settings to be emailed to the device. What they meant was that if your device is un-configured it wouldn’t have any email accounts to receive the settings – a chicken and egg kinda […]