BBC and Bit.ly create bbc.in
What do you get when you take one of the worlds greatest content creators and mix it up with best url shortener?
You get bbc.in that’s what – If you head over to Bit.ly, or even through Twitter herself (got to be a women with all that gossip and bieber love in the trending topics) you’ll get something other than a bit.ly/[id] as the shortened url. Read more
Making Android a useful life tool
I’ve been using Android for about three months now after getting my HTC Tattoo and for the first two and a half months it basically involved trying to make it do what I want.
It isn’t the greatest mobile phone in the world but it is small and has all the functionality I need from a phone. Read more
New look for BBC News coming soon
Even the smallest of changes to a high profile website can be a big deal, especially when that website is owned by the BBC – then any change can lead to high praise and rabbid hatred – often within the same comment thread.
When the site you’re changing is the BBC News website, one of the most loved sites on the web, those little changes become even more contentious. Read more
Well that all went a little bit mental
I’ve been blogging for years, in one form or another it’s probably approaching a decade since I first started writing what could be described as a blog.
However, although I’ve put finger to keyboard and keyboard to blog post for nearly a decade – I have gone weeks and sometimes months without actually writing anything new. Read more
Tattoo might or might not get Android 2.1
Waiting for an upgrade to my Android phone and the delay is down to a couple of extra buttons.
OK that isn’t completely true. I’ve got a HTC Tattoo and it currently runs Android 1.6. The Tattoo is a low end Android phone with a smaller screen. Read more
Give me iPlayer back on my Android phone
The first thing I did when I got my new HTC Tattoo earlier this year was open the browser and visit the BBC iPlayer site – it was great – I could watch iPlayer videos without a problem.
Then I discovered BeebPlayer which made the whole process easier and much more user friendly than trying to navigate a full browser site on a mobile phone. Read more
I’m sold on paying for the Times
When Rupert Murdoch first announced he was putting The Times and Sunday Times behind a paywall I thought it was a rather silly idea.
I was determined I would never pay for it, after all when news is available everywhere else on the web for free (or at least ad-funded) what was the point in paying. Read more
No more music on my iPod thanks to Spotify
I’ve had ‘the middle’ iPod in one form or another since the first iPod Mini was released in 2004.
And ever since, from the very beginning of my iPod ownership life, music and speech have been fighting for dominance of the limited space. Read more
New look Glasto site makes use of 6music names
Every year the BBC relaunches its website for one of the major festivals it covers or, in the case of the Big Weekend – hosts.
The latest site to get this treatment is the Glastonbury festival, normally I wouldn’t blog about this but, unlike the others there are a number of things of note. Read more