tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58677772011-11-28T00:16:34.483ZRandom thoughts, links and other things that are too long for Twitter. Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/andrewrealAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00334559372069184147noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867777.post-60609484354852958692009-02-14T16:32:00.001Z2009-02-14T16:32:43.515Z

I’ve just changed my mobile phone contract and was recommended the new Nokia 5800 Xpress Music phone so I thought I’d give it a try. For the past 3 or 4 years I’ve been using Windows Mobile based phones made by HTC, most recently the HTC Tytn II so I’m used to a touch screen smart phone. I plan to do a series of blog posts about the 5800 and how it compares to Windows Mobile phones over the

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00334559372069184147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867777.post-35271460465467279462009-02-07T23:33:00.001Z2009-02-07T23:33:01.906Z

A couple of days ago I told you about Windows Live Sky Drive and how I was using it for a back up solution. One of the draw backs with Sky Drive is that the web interface can be a little sluggish, but I’ve recently been trying out an application that does away with the web interface altogether. Gladinet sits running in the background on your PC and creates a virtual network drive called ‘

Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00334559372069184147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867777.post-8253146022120067942009-02-05T13:36:00.001Z2009-02-05T13:36:14.233Z

Over the last few days, I’ve been trying out Microsoft's Windows Live service. Its a range of web apps a bit like Google are doing with Googlemail and Googledocs. The first of these I’ve tried is Sky Drive. What is Sky Drive? Sky Drive is a virtual hard drive up on Microsoft’s servers for you to store anything you want. Initially, you are given 25GB of space but I understand that this

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I've had this blog for a few years and never really used it much as I was always far to busy with work and family.Anyway, I've lost my retail business in the economic collapse and am now just doing stuff from home till I find a job so I thought I might start the blog up again. I haven't been here for a while and a lot has changed at Blogger in the last 3 years so it will probably take me a while

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