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Olympics 2012 – are you going?

Posted by Techboy on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

You have until the 26th April to apply for tickets to the London Olympics. I’m going to apply for the: Opening ceremony Cycling (velodrome – mens finals) Triathlon Anyone (who knows me) want to go with me? If so, let me know because I’m going to buy the tickets soon (maybe this weekend). I don’t mind [...]

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Trading with the Bulls

Posted by Techboy on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

I have always wanted to find an easy, quick gain, low risk – high reward entry into the stock market. Until recently that seemed impossible, but now I think I might have found it… I am a self-confessed geek (hence the nick-name ‘Techboy’ – which Steve Bush at Barclays Bank PLC originally gave me). Before [...]

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Introductory Winter Mountaineering Course (February 2011) – Update on Costs

Posted by Techboy on Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

The worst part of going on holiday is planning them! In my previous post I detailed the projected costs of the travel for the mountaineering course that I’m going on. After literally quite a few hours of fiddling on www.thetrainline.com, various hotel companies (including www.lastminute.com, www.expedia.com. etc.) and www.quidco.com I have revised my travel plans to [...]

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Things I’m working on right now

Posted by Techboy on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

This is a very brief update on things that I am working on right now Knee Injury: Since January I have had an injury with my left knee. This has resulted in me doing a lot less sport training and events than I would have liked I have had 2 sessions with a chiropractor at [...]

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Decisions – Which New Mobile Phone Shall I Get?

Posted by Techboy on Friday, June 11th, 2010

I currently have an HTC HD (running Windows Mobile 6.1 OS) on the O2 network and my contact expires at the end of this month, which means that I can get a new phone. My preferences for a new phone fall into 3 categories: Android based, iPhone 4 and Windows Phone 7 based. Android I [...]

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Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

User Authentication onto Websites – Some Direction Needed!

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

One thing the Internet hasn’t got right yet is user authentication onto websites. Most websites require users to have a user account so that you can personalise the site, have a home page, add a comment, etc. – and that in itself is good as it makes the Internet more relevant and personalised to you. [...]

Xbox Kinect – My Living Room is too Small for it!

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

My brother is 27 today – which coincides with the day that the Microsoft Kinect comes out in the UK. So a couple of weeks ago I decided to get him a Kinect as a present. I tried several online shops but none of them had it available for pre-order as they had already sold [...]

150 Installed Android Applications

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

I currently have 150 Android Applications installed (well okay, 2 of them are web based apps) on my mobile phone (Samsung Galaxy S). I will categorise them later, but for now here is a list: Advanced Task Killer Aldiko eBook AllShare AndroidIRC Asphalt5 autosquare Barrage Lite BBC News Bet calculator Betfair – http://iphone.betfair.com BigOven Bites [...]

Samsung Galaxy S – 3 Week Review

Monday, July 5th, 2010

I have had the Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone for a 3 weeks now and have so far been impressed with it. Here are my thoughts. I am a power-user when it comes to technology (as shown in my education and career choices) and I always want the best tech. So when it came to [...]

Cheapest UK Price for the Samsung Galaxy S

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

I have decided to buy the Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone which is exclusive to Vodafone. It is currently the highest spec mobile phone running the Android operating system in the UK. It came out yesterday so I walked into my local Vodafone shop (in Milton Keynes) but they didn’t have one in stock – [...]

Decisions – Which New Mobile Phone Shall I Get?

Friday, June 11th, 2010

I currently have an HTC HD (running Windows Mobile 6.1 OS) on the O2 network and my contact expires at the end of this month, which means that I can get a new phone. My preferences for a new phone fall into 3 categories: Android based, iPhone 4 and Windows Phone 7 based. Android I [...]

One thing needed to make a website – an idea

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

The one thing all my site design revolves around is an idea. The idea spawns content, design, usability and interaction. Once I have an idea in my head, I brainstorm content and features in OneNote. Then comes usability. Then comes basic design. Then comes the coding. Then comes iteration of all of the above and [...]

SAP Doesn’t ‘Get’ Twitter…

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

I currently subscribe to around 10 SAP RSS feeds, which is okay, although due to the nature of SAP and its modular approach to software; items are cross-posted to various RSS feeds meaning that I see a lot of duplication. Now SAP have started to use Twitter, but their approach to it is to just export [...]

Paul’s Favourite Windows Mobile Software

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Below is a list of software that I am currently running on my Windows Mobile device (HTC Touch HD). I will keep this list updated. Feel free to comment. All software is freeware unless otherwise specified. HTC Hot Fixes (all need to be re-installed if you hard-reset the phone) .net Compact Framework 3.5. Some of [...]

Got the new Mobile – and have entered another 6 hour Adventure Race!

Monday, January 26th, 2009

A nice Royal Mail courrier knocked on my door this morning and handed me an HTC Touch HD. I carefully unwrapped it, took it to work and charged it at my desk. Then I called O2 and got the on the ‘special’ number discussed here http://www.modaco.com/content/blackstone-blackstone-modaco-com/278122/unlimited-web-on-o2-can-you-use-for-other-apps/. I was in a queue for about 30 seconds, [...]

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