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Entries for January, 2009

iPhone apps – BBQ Pro

I’ve not downloaded this game (yet!) for the iPhone but it looks like a real boys toy. It’s called BBQ Pro and you can get it from the iTunes store here.
Summer is a long time away but this could be a good opportunity to get your burger flipping practice in over the winter months and [...]

TLD World Maps

Wikimedia have a map of the world with each country with their top level domain (TLD) name indicated. It’s basically a normal map that has the TLDs printed on top. Well worth a look although it is a large image (6000 X 3375).

Lately, I came across these guys who are selling another TLD map but [...]

Hot off the RSS – 2009/01/27

Niall has a fantastic post on why making millions won’t make you happy

Joe’s 5 Things this week is on 5 things you should know about web design

ProBlogger has nice advice on starting your first blog

Sarah’s has part 1 of her discussion on interesting Gmail features and add-ons

And finally, I’d definitely recommend taking 30 mins out [...]

1,474 Megapixel Picture

This is just class! It’s a massive panaroma of the Obama inauguration is unbelievable detail. It’s got over 2 gigs of data (don’t worry, it doesn’t all come down when you load the page!) and is made up of 220 different photos.

What I love about this is the page is extremely slick and really easy [...]

Would you like a wine cellar under your kitchen?

A lot of us nowadays don’t have massive houses with wine cellars so why not stick one underneath you kitchen by getting a big circular hole dug, stick a spiral staircase in, a nice door on top and you’re ready to fill it with those 1600 bottles of wine that are lying around filling up [...]

iPhone apps – Best twitter clients

Gizmodo have a great post today on the best an worst twitter apps for the iPhone.
I’ve yet to buy any paid apps from the iTunes store – to be honest every free app I have does the job – but I still am willing to pay for one if it really suits my purpose.
Essentially, Gizmodo’s [...]

Tools – WinDirStat

I’m going to start blogging some quick posts on some of the favourite tools. I’m going to leave the term ‘tools’ pretty broad for now because hopefully it will include various things I find useful, not just nerdy stuff.
So, the first one is WinDirStat. “WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for [...]

For the day that’s in it – Barack Obama

After the events of today — inauguration day in the U.S. — I’ve decided my first post ‘in anger’ is just going to be a sharing of some of the great Barack Obama speeches over the last few years.
I remember this in 2004, the Obama speech at the DNC Convention and people were talking about [...]

My first post

Welcome to my first blog post. This isn’t going to be very informative but it’s going to get the ball rolling.
Anyway… this is my blog and some of the topics I’m considering posting on include the following:

My iPhone – why I love it
Nerd news
Gadget news
General rambings and rantings
Sport musings
etc… (that covers everything else)