Some Random Moblog

I’m getting increasingly irritated with these messages. (Note the signal level in the pictures at the end of this post.) I live and work in central London, where you would expect a good mobile signal. Yet there are holes in the service all over the place. We’ve got the devices that can make the mobile [...]

I read with interest the news that the Linux kernel has been installed onto an iPhone. This is something I’ve been hoping to hear for a few months. Right now, that’s not terribly interesting in and of itself. The Linux kernel is something that sits between the software and hardware; without drivers for the touch [...]

I’ve come across a couple of really great applications this weekend, but I’m not sure which one is the one to pass on a recommendation. Firstly; MyRail Lite- a great application for anyone in the UK who ever uses the train; it looks up the live train timetables by station, including a GPS lookup to [...]

This is a simple list of the iPhone applications that I would call essential; the ones I would install if I had to restore my iPhone tomorrow; a mixture of the useful, the strange and the entertaining; NetNewsWire I’ve already talked about this is some detail; it uses the Newsgator RSS reader to deliver news [...]

“Air Mouse” is one of the iPhone applications that is genuinely useful- not a quicker or easier or different way of doing something you already do, but something that lets you do something that you couldn’t do without it. It let’s you use your iPhone as a mouse and keyboard for your PC or Mac- [...]

You just know that Apple is working away on the next version of the iPhone- like iPods, I’d expect them to be constantly refreshing their platform. 2.0 was a big upgrade to the operating system, allowing 3rd party applications to be added. So what’s going to be included in 3.0? This is probably more of [...]