Tech For Life

I probably wont get to make a post today, but I have been productive. I have installed a new Wordpress template, which is responsible for this shiny new look.
I am a big fan of white space, and also of the image classes that this template uses so I hope you will be too. Please feel […]

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…or at least the cables will, as one company is currently busy pushing fibre optic cable through Britains sewers. H2O has been rolling out (literally) its FOCUS (Fibre Optic Cable Underground Sewer!) since 2003 and with luck it is going to help stave off the broadband crunch that I, and a lot of other net […]

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Mailplane is an email client for Mac OS X that allows you to use a lot of OSX’s built in friendliness and helpfulness with Google’s Gmail email accounts. I have been on the beta for quite some time, and the makers have decided it’s now time to recoup some of their time and resources by […]

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No, it’s not a Finnish battlecry. Nooka is a watch. Actually it’s a whole range of watches. The brainchild of Mr Matthew Waldman. Initially available as part of the Seiko range under license in 1999, the Nooka Zoo was so successful that Matthew took his patent and started his own watch company. The watches that […]

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I’m not going to say much about these, anyone who gets the joke will think they are great. They aren’t tech per-se, but they are tech related, so only minor apologies for showing them here.
Anyone with a cute, html wizardess girlfriend, or any style (semi) conscious girl geek will love these. And there must be […]

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Tryphone is a brand new service that tries to show you what a new mobile phone handles like before you buy it. I say tries, because no amount of playing with a picture on the screen will give you the full feel of actually using the phone, tactile response and that ever indescribable ‘feel’ have […]

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There are very much two sides to this blog. One side is the geeky tech loving button and screen fetishist lurking inside all of us. The other is what has come to be known as ‘lifehacks’.
Lifehacks are those tips or methods, like David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ that help us get organised, or make life […]

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I really like this. It’s subtle, it’s stylish(ish), and functional. All you do is connect it to your phone via Bluetooth, turn your phone to silent (Vibrate off too), and you will be warned of incoming calls by a gentle wrist massage. The winning element for me is that it keeps the notification silent, but […]

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