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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The Kindle Touch 3G is the only new Kindle with 3G available and you won’...

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In the last few months, several of my friends have had either their laptops or phones stolen. It’s only after I really thought what that would mean to me that I realised how serious this would be. It used to be that if my phone got stolen then I would lose my address book and my text messages; if it gets stolen now then I lose a device which has full access to my Google account, i...

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Droidbox pro (a dropbox client that came out months before the official one, and still seems better) Jewellust (a bejeweled clone) BeyondPod (a podcatcher. I have stopped using this since I realised it was trashing filenames)...

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It’s easy to add a link to a URL to the home screen on the iPhone. When you’re looking at a web page, just hit “+” and select “Add to Home Screen”. On Android it’s slightly more involved: Bookmark the page you want to add to a home screen Go to the home screen you want to add the link to long-press in an empty space to bring up the “Add to Home Screen” menu

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Out of the box you cannot send files over bluetooth to a computer running the latest stable version of Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, 8.10. This is a bit of a problem for me since my main camera is my trusty Nokia N95. What you can do is send files to your phone, and browse its filesystem, just not receive. As you can imagine, there are some

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Nokia have said that once they own the controlling stake (or all) of Symbian, they’ll make it open source within two years under the Eclipse license (see

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After waiting for ages, I have just upgraded my 3-branded N95 (3 are a UK provider) to an unbranded v20 firmware. I think this means I’ve lost some of the X-Series stuff that 3 bundled, but I never used any of it, so I don’t really care.

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I almost feel bad about this, but it seems like this sacred cow is more like Shambo. sometimes the elders are right, and the youngsters really are too young to know the history of the idea they think that they’ve just invented. Unfortunately

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I do not listen to many podcasts. This is mainly because I used to have trouble syncing a subscription list across multiple PCs. Now I have a Nokia N95 I use that as my primary client. It works well and I have started adding some feeds. I don’t listen to music podcasts though – I’ve tried and they are almost always too...

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