Apparently there is a thing called ownCloud which lets you run, amongst other things, a calendar server and a contact directory, both of which will sync with your android phone and here is a writeup of doing just that. I’ve not tried it yet, but any option to prise the dat...

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At first blush I didn’t know what to make of Google’s new iOS and Android app, Currents, other than it is an almost infinitely better way to consume The Guardian than their own Android app. After a few hours I’ve got a much better idea, and broadly, I’m not impressed. No URLs, No view-source and half the content I’ve read seems to be ...

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September 2008: I look forward to the first Linux build which runs Chrome as its window manager.

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I tried this a year ago only to experience epic fail. I tried this yesterday and it was a marvellous success. Around this time last year

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(because one more whiny blogger’s opinion can’t hurt) nice, fast. I see ad people a single google doc in an application window feels nicer than the Prism alternative masses of the standard Firefox keyboard shortcuts work find-as-you-type requires CTRL+F find-as-you-type doesn’t select links

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How to create a backup of your starred items in Google Reader, should the need ever arise:

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So, my Google account is still disabled a week later and I still haven’t had a response to the two mails I’ve sent the accounts team. My blog was powered by Blogger. I’ve switched to WordPress and hope to import all of my old blog sometime this week (I’ll have to screen-scrape my own blog archives). In related news I was using Gmail to power my email, but was using my own domain to forwa...

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Well, I had been about to post about using Android, the new Google thing for mobile devices, but they seem to have disabled my main Google Account meaning that I can’t use anything I was logged out of, including Gmail and Blogger, which means I’m writing this by hand and that comments are, er, disabled. Yeah, disabled. I ca...

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Let’s see, they convert everything to Atom and have just added the only two features I was missing: search and “hide feed list” (I do a lot of feed reading on a tablet). It even goes offline, has a mobile version and some great ke...

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Let’s see, they convert everything to Atom and have just added the only two features I was missing: search and “hide feed list” (I do a lot of feed reading on a tablet). It even goes offline, has a mobile version and some great ke...

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