Portable DVD Players
The kids, as they do, had been doing my head in on long journeys. In my youth I sat patiently for hours upon end, taking in the scenery and chatting with my parents. This generation is lost without electrical input, it appears; they are like irritating gadgets, always...
Builders Bums
Good and well made workwear is the best investment anyone in the building trade can make. Far more important than your tool-set, your ass sorted hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches, picks and shovels is your clothing. This can be likened to the military where...
Pension Unlocking
I keep hearing about people needing cash now, needing to purchase something now.. there is of course, if you are over 50 and have funds tied up in a pension scheme to which you no longer contribute, the option of Pension Release. I have had many arguments in the past...
Rigger Boots
Builders need to wear decent safety or rigger boots during the course of their work. Theirs is one of the most hazardous professions when comes to feet. There are all manner of menaces out there which can be broken down into three main areas of danger: Sharp Objects...
Nokia N95 8GB
Happy as I am with my Nokia N95, I cant help but get dragged into the nasty conumerist world of upgrades. Just because the new one is in a shiny matt black, just because it hs a slightly larger screen than the normal silver Nokia N95, just because it has 8gig of...
I Love Beans
I love Beans, particularly baked beans. Then I found this website I love beans.co.uk and a, just astounded by the beauty of the webdesign and content. I don't care if they are Heinz or Branston Baked Beans just as long as they are on toast or baked potato with some...
Business Gifts
Now this is a true story, I have changed the names to avoid any potential embarrassment or future legal proceedings. I work in a small office where we work hard, 5 of us as a team, we build, develop and market websites, each area of our enterprise is kind of...
Nokia Maps after Software Upgrade
Nokia maps have completely flummoxed me of late. I upgraded my Nokia N95 software as I had been promised a faster GPS connection as a result. I put up with the loss of my beloved Brian Lara Cricket game, but that is a waste of time anyway. I rebooted and waited - a...
First Time Buyer on a Slippery Slope
Now I have been in the market for a mortgage for a few years now. I have been working hard to get my foot upon that elusive first rung of the housing ladder. My income has increased greater than the rate of inflation, which should be a good thing, but still the bottom...
Google Race
I had a blinding idea the other day and was assured ( by myself ) that would get great interest on web, I was thinking of like a mash between Drivey ( http://drivey.com/) and Google earth/ maps so that you could like choose start and endpoint and then race like mad...
VOIP telephony
Voice over IP Communications specialists Best4IP have created a site with a view to bringing together a wealth of information on the subject of SIP telephony, VOIP telephony and their related features and implementation. Best4IP is a natural progression of focus from...
Conservatories
I have a relatively spacious flat with a nice garden, my two children have ample room to run around and play, indeed they could be said to have taken over the better part of our living area with their various toys, games and activities. That is why I started looking...
TV Sets for the North
I have a great business idea and am looking for a partner in the North of England. Here, in the affluent south, everyone is buying flat screen/LCD Tv's and plasmas, we are so rich down here that we are practically giving away the old traditional TV Sets. What I need...
In Car with Nokia N95, which Navigation Software?
You see I still haven't got it cracked, I use the GPS Sat Nav on my Nokia N95 all the time in the car. I set the route using the landmarks feature and calculate route. Then I show on map and start tracking. Generally, if I have decent satellite signals the GPS...
DIY Disaster
I am by no means a DIY amateur, I have managed, in the past, to carry out a few quite breathtaking pieces of home improvement. My proudest hour was, most likely, the replacement of a large TV aerial on our roof. I managed ( and this was in a foreign country) to...
Nokia Buys the Worlds Maps
In a mobile, connected world, maps are becoming a hugely strategic asset. All kinds of burgeoning digital revenue streams are being created on the backs of maps: local search, friend finders, family tracking, location-aware advertising and turn-by-turn navigation. If...
Blank Canvas
Today, Wednesday September 12th I am at a loss. I have nothing to write. I have noone to call on My Nokia N95 ( gratuitous keyword inclusion ) and my brain is in a whirr, all kind of autistic static, like opposing forces bringing apparent balance through conflict...
ipod touch
Apple have announced the impending release of a new ipod, this time, aping the iphone and coming with a full, wide, touchsreen. The unit is obviously beautiful, impressivlemy designed and I am sure will be an absolute dream to turn on. However, my video ipod suffices,...
Mortgages, a bubble waiting to burst
You may have heard me go on about mortgages plenty of times. It is a pet subject of mine. I am a first time buyer, at least I want to be but I appear to have been completely shifted off the market. Now I am a professional on a reasonable wage but this no longer...
Book a Last Minute Holiday
Now I am always desperate for some sun and sand, this year the weather has been so dire that a late summer holiday is looking like a necessity. The school holidays are almost over and I have been looking for a last minute holiday booking. As I am an experienced...
Nokia N95 Coloured Covers
The more you use it the more you become convinced that Nokia have busted their collective cojones on this product. Here is a beautifully accomplished and designed flash site offering customised coloured covers for the Nokia N95 over at Vaja Cases . They have crafted...
Doctor Marten Boots
As a child I proudly strutted in my first pair of "Docs". I was a proud as punch in them. The very fact that they were :"Oil, Fat, Acid and Alkali resistant" was indeed a great thing for any shoe. That these perfectly buffed leather shoes had air filled soles and were...
Tom Tom has a go
Tom, with whom I have worked with for a few years has now gone his way, setting off for a trip round the world. He will be travelling round South Africa and Australia, with a few stop overs. He will be missed.Tom's desk will be left as he left it. Picture taken with...
Bicycles are harming the environment
Recent government studies have shocked cyclists nationwide. In an astonishing turn of events, sure to shake many well intentioned cyclists it has been proven that the use of a bicycle in populated areas actually increases carbon dioxide gas emissions as well as other...
Navigation Software for Nokia N95
The GPS on the Nokia is great, but there will come a time when my Nokia N95 talks to me as I drive. Now I have never tried that, I hate taking advice at most times, and driving is certainly no exception To tell the truth I am a newbie to this Sat Nav/ GPS laugh,...
Nicole Miller Dresses
Last week I was looking for nicole miller dresses as it was my mistress's birthday and she loves the slinky style of the designer who combines the ideas of elegance and rebellion to achieve a subtle sexiness that is the essence of modern femininity I found a great...
Plantronics CS60 – a life changer
Now, I work all day, in an office, like many people, sitting at my desk with a keyboard, mouse and monitor for company. I have a telephone also - a Toshiba System Phone with lots of buttons; I tend not to make many outgoing calls, usually it is our clients who call me...
Home Phones the need to talk
I was idly browsing the web when I found an online Telephone retailer who specialise in Home Phones when I got to thinking about home phones and who actually uses them... I have got a contract with Orange, the mobile phone provider, which costs me around £35 a month...
Navigation for Nokia N95
Ongoing fun with the Nokia N95 and its beatiful integrated GPS Satellite Navigation ( Sat Nav ). You have to hand it t o the americans for uploading all those satellites. Luke writes :“ I have just set up the routemaster gps on my phone and if you haven't done...
Cool Parking Site
ParkatmyHouse.com is a new and innovative website that enables local residents with empty driveways and garages, and businesses or venues with unused car parks, to rent them out to drivers needing somewhere to park. Motorists on their way to a hospital, sports stadium...
Hotel Reservations
Now, you are looking to reserve a hotel and you don't know where to start. I travel often and many time I book a flight only package and have to ferret around online looking for a cheap room. I was directed recently to a great site offering hotel discounts for rooms...
Personal Alarms
Personal safety has never worried me particularly but of late I have been impressed at the range of personal alarms on the market. These range from pepper sprays, high decibel screechers and hand held sirens. I would favour a micro Uzi for use upon any would be...
Noise in the Workplace
Blimey and bloody nora I could do with some ear defenders today. I get to work and the fire alarm is blaring, Martins lunchbox placed carefully over the siren takes out some of the harshness, some of the more piercing higher notes are muted slightly, but it is still...
Nokia N95 Free Sat Nav Maps
Wow, armed with my new NSeries N95 I was off on a trip last week so I carefully set the mobile on the dashboard and plugged in the destination address. ( I was delivering an ebay sale for a friend- a 100 mile round trip). What followed was the most dangerous driving...
Greek TShirts
Riding around in my car I get to thinking about all sorts of things, I slide gears into each other as the car purrs. My vision is all focussed and peripheral at the same time, the whole panorama is a broad and slightly blurred disc which is sucked into my...
Bluetooth Keyboard for Nokia N95
The Nokia N95 has been criticised in many corners for not having a QWERTY keyboard, which most smart phones are now shipped with. The phone, used in conjunction with a bluetooth keyboard comes into its own. This is a great advantage as the phone is, intrinsically a...
Business Directory
On line web directories can serve a beautiful dual purpose for both the businesses listed and the customer. Initially as many people come to a well made and sensibly structured directory such as the dMOZ they will be able to browse down through categories and refine...
Personal Pension Release
Personal Pension Release is the term given to the process of unlocking or withdrawing funds perviously locked in a Personal Pension Scheme. The process is open to those over the age of 50 who have either Personal Pension Plans, Stakeholder Pensions or even an “old...
Nokia 95 Mobile
OK I have been circling in on the Nokia N95 for a while now, I have had it in my catanalotic ( consumerist ) sights since it was first released. Yesterday I checked with a friend, Luke who had upgraded to the N95 some weeks previously, as to his general user...
bad credit mortgages
Now I have been described in certain quarters as a bit lackadaisical, sometimes irresponsible and even just plain stupid.Now all of these descriptions refer to by financial dealings. Though I say it myself, in nearly all other areas of my life I conduct myself...
motor insurance quote
Now I have had my share of car problems of late, I have had blowouts, flat batteries and break ins and my poor wee ford fiesta is still struggling along. My current insurance company have looked after me quite well but I have been increasingly aware that I should look...
Nokia n95 with GPS
Wow, get me away from it, the Nokia N95 is calling to me, whispering sweet nothings to me, there is even an advert, a full wall advert, which waves at me on the way to work. I would love to turn one on - and I am closing on it.....
TomTom Go
Always looking to justify that next purchase I have been looking into getting a good bit of Sat Nav installed in me Fiesta - probably doubling the value of the car. Looking at the beautifully designed TomTom website I see that they are producing a lovely XL version...
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m600i by sony
kind of checking whether or not the Sony Ericsson will update my blog. Proof is in the pud.