Download all your tagged facebook photos

January 11, 2010
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This has been on the minds of my collegues and I for a while now – To develop a peice of software to search through and automatically download all of your tagged photos from facebook onto your PC hard-drive.
Export Photo’s Too does this brilliantly. Install the application to your facebook profile and hit ‘Download Tagged [...]

iPhone contact syncing

January 8, 2010
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I’ve just updated my iPhone facebook app, and noticed it now has the ability to sync your contacts with facebook friends in order to download their profile picture, birthday and other info to the contact file.
I’ve been able to do this for a while now using an app called myphone+ but never the less this [...]

Affordable Blu-Ray Home Cinema Systeme

December 30, 2009
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You may have read that I recently installed a complete new system in my family house lounge? Well here is the kit I used:
Samsung 46″ 5 Series LCD (Comet – £599)
SkyHD+ box (Sky – £30)
PS3 Slimline 120GB (Asda – £180)
HDMI 10.2Gbps Monster Cable x2 (Amazon – £100)
Logitech Z5500 5.1 THX (Amazon – £298)
This setup falls [...]

Movement to High Definition!

December 30, 2009
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I’ve often slated SkyHD about how it’s not ‘true’ high definition. However, with the approach of the new year this seems like a good time to make amends. More to the point, Sky have offered a free SkyHD+ box, with 50% off the installation fee (I should think so too – I routed the additional [...]

Stopping IE6 Optimization

December 24, 2009
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For those of you in the know, you will understand the burden which is IE6. It’s far less efficient, and awkward to boot, at designing websites to look both good and work well. Amongst the problems are;
Images can’t be wider than 800px
Images can’t be .PNG
Padding is calculated differently
IE in general is a nuisance; things in [...]

New Website now in testing

December 19, 2009
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So the new site is finally up and running. It’s already been optimized for IE and Firefox, but the menu is still causing problems on certain browser versions.
Please fill in the poll, it only takes two clicks and will help me loads! Feel free to comment too if you have time! I can add [...]

Automatic Photo Uploads!

December 11, 2009
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I was watching ‘The Gadget Show’ last night, and a particular gadget took my eye. It’s the Eye-Fi. A wireless SD card which automatically uploads any photos on it to either a PC or the internet (such as TweetPic or Flickr).
It’s a great idea – with one minor issue: Naughty photos (such as drunk office [...]

Google Developments!

December 2, 2009
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Google have recently announced some new features, demonstrating again its dominance over the World Wide Web!
Google’s latest feature is the integration of ‘real-time result’s (RTR’s) including Twitter, Facebook and Myspace updates to be shown for relevant search results. Although the feature is currently limited to a minority of key words it will be built upon [...]

60secondshout: The meaning behind the tag

December 1, 2009
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#60SecondShout (or #60SS) is a trending topic (established via Twitter), which I designed to summarise lots of my smaller blogs – Those that can be read in less than 60 seconds!
I wanted to produce a type of blog which fell in between a micro-blog (140 characters) and some of my more heavy weight blogs (140 [...]

Twitter AutoDM Feature: Good or Evil?!

November 16, 2009
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So, after about 4 days of Tweeting I have started to gather a small selection of lovely followers! (If your one of them thanks for taking the time to read this!)
So now I have a dilemma – Should I autoDM new followers? Lots of people see this tactic as ‘spam’, especially when promotional links are [...]