Google Maps for Blackberry / Mobile Phone
June 10, 2008
I recently installed the latest version of the Google Maps download for a mobile phone / Blackberry onto my new HTC Tytn II Windows Mobile handset and have been further impressed by how well this free piece of software works and how useful it actually can be.
I previously had an Orange E650 (a branded HTC S710 Vox handset) which ran Windows Mobile 6 and as such I installed Google Maps on that, however I must admit that I never really used it due to a combination of slow data speeds (it wasn’t a 3G device) and the fact that the data usage charges on my tariff were quite expensive.
Continue reading »Mobispine - Mobile News Reader
May 2, 2008
Do you like to check your favourite websites/blogs while out and about with your mobile phone? If you do, then you’ll find that there’s one main problem with checking the individual websites and that is that generally the cost of mobile internet access is expensive.
Your mobile Internet usage is usually charged based upon your data usage and as such anything you can do to minimise this is good!
Continue reading »Google Checkout Update - Aria PC Technology
April 29, 2007
I recently wrote about the online retailers using Google Checkout payment system that is now starting to be used by various companies such as Ebuyer.
Continue reading »Google Maps - Directions from New York to London
April 22, 2007
Google Maps is a website that you can use to get maps and satellite imagery of anywhere in the world, one of the main features includes giving you step-by-step directions from A to B.
I’ve seen this in a few places on the Internet so far, but thought it was worthy of mention here in case you hadn’t seen it yet.
Normally you get some pretty accurate directions from using this Google product, however if you follow the steps below, you’ll see it would appear that someone at Google who has a sense of humour is checking you’re paying attention!
Continue reading »Google Checkout Bargain
April 19, 2007
Google recently launched another new service called Google Checkout which is essentially being positioned as a rival service to Paypal as a means of conducting transactions over the Internet - I for one am really pleased that Google have made this move and any real rival to Paypal should hopefully encourage competition and perhaps lower rates, especially if it gets used over eBay and the like.
Ebuyer have a page showing that you will save £10 on every order over £30 you place with them until 10th June 2007. This offer also extends to other online stores that use Google Checkout, so this could be a great way to save money at some of your favourite online retailers!
Continue reading »Google April Fools 2007
April 2, 2007
Every year Google seems to take April Fools quite seriously…well in the sense that they obviously spend a bit of time coming up with these little jokes and show that they’re definitely a company with a great sense of humour!
One of my favourites this year is “GMail Paper”!
Not everyone likes email and some want to go back to simpler times - then this is for you! All you have to do is click the “Paper Archive” button in GMail and Google will print your message and delivery it to your door 2-4 days later! You can then do whatever you like with it, such as read it, sort it, search it, touch it or even recycle it! Although, be aware that there will be targetted adverts in large red lettering on the back of each page!
Continue reading »Sluggish Firefox
March 27, 2007
One of the best things about Firefox in my opinion is all the different “extensions” you can install into it to add additional functionality. However, over the past month or so I’ve been experiencing a very frustrating time using Firefox - the whole program seemed to be running on a general go-slow.
I’d have problems with just simple things like typing something and then waiting a few seconds for it to catch up with me. Add into that, regular freezing and very slow scrolling through my tabs, it’s really been annoying the hell out of me.
I’d reduced some of the large number of extensions I had installed, but to no avail. I’d been looking at potential background processes which could be sucking up resources and choosing to un-install some, however this didn’t resolve matters neither.
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