Category Archives: Technology

Nokia, Microsoft and Windows Phone

Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, has now famously been quoted for his “burning platform” memo, but with today’s announcement that Nokia will be taking up Windows Phone 7 as its leading smartphone operating system, what we are seeing is the … Continue reading

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How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14

In this article I will explain what battery charging thresholds are, and if you’re using a Thinkpad, how to install the tp_smapi kernel module (kmod), have it run at boot time, and automatically rebuild itself when you update kernel versions. … Continue reading

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Lenovo Thinkpad T400 14” Review

I have owned my Thinkpad T400 for a sufficiently long period of time to be able to give my overall view of the machine now. I have had a couple of Thinkpads in the past a T41p and a T61, … Continue reading

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Fragmentation on the Mobile Web

Every day I see some advert for an iPhone App, usually heralding itself as life changing. What concerns me is that a lot of the time these iPhone applications such as the Empire and Guardian ones, are really only providing … Continue reading

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The Smartphone Operating System War

In between History essays I can’t help but get distracted about technology, and my friend’s dilemma about which smartphone to plump for, now, with a year left on his contract, has made me think. He is very enamoured with the … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the Nokia N900

Looking ahead to the UK launch of the N900 in late October, I wanted to collect my thoughts on the N900 whilst taking into account my previous ruminations on the N810 release, and making comparisons where appropriate (although unfortunately this … Continue reading

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Optimoz Tweaks 0.4 Updated for Firefox 3.6

Optimoz Tweaks no longer appears to work with Firefox 3.6 despite me making my usual alterations. At present I do not have the time nor ability to attempt to fix this, so I do apologise. Download it anyway and give … Continue reading

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How to Send Email From a Different Address Using Gmail and Thunderbird

This is a problem that’s been plaguing me for years, literally. I’ll outline the problem in brief. Say you’re using Google’s email service Gmail and you use “plus addressing” (which is basically username+tag@gmail.com) and you also use mailing-lists. The popular … Continue reading

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