Saturday 23 January 2010

iPhoned Up

Well, I've finally given in to the whole smartphone phenomenon & am writing this in a Newbury cafe on my shiny new iPhone 3GS. Quite a novel experience for someone who's only ever had boring Nokias!

So far I have to admit I'm really impressed. Main reasons for getting this phone were to stay more in touch with my various social networks whilst out & about, and also have better on the go access to weather forecasts for windsurfing.

Not really tested weather forecasts yet, but for staying connected the iPhone is awesome. Having added a few apps, I'm now easily able to keep up with email, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and my RSS feeds - not to mention posting to the blog of course.

Geek alert: also now able to remote desktop to my PC from the phone - sweet.

Must admit the touchscreen is for now slower than texting on my old phone, but reckon that'll improve with practice. Otherwise very happy with the thing!

Thursday 7 January 2010

Happy New Year!

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Only slightly belatedly – happy new year everyone, and hope 2010 proves to be a cracking one for all!

I had a great break, nice to unwind for a while and really good to catch up with friends and family.  On my travels a bit, visiting Warsash, Lytham St Annes, Manchester and south Wales.  Phew…

Back to work now of course, slightly worried about how much there seems to be to do!  All exciting stuff though and actually pretty keen to get back on with things.

One tentative new year’s resolution I do aim to keep up is to post more here!  There seems to be a lot to witter on about, from the recent #uksnow to the Google Nexus One.  So expect one post per week minimum – we’ll see how that goes…