http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog Gadgets|IT|Amusing Stories|Photos Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:34:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No it isn't home made explosives nor is it mentos in diet coke! I give you Water Balls! http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=296 Simply amazing! http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=295 I love Dilbert because Scott Adams can so quickly summarise so many of the frustrations in my day to day work. Take this comic for example: How many times do you get called out to meetings where they are just talking about planning to do the work when you stop and ... http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=294 After a couple of weeks with the iphone I was really disappointed with the battery life. I thought that with the new firmware that it would be able to stretch out the battery life quite considerably. I carry around a blackberry at the same time and am used to the ... http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=293 I have finally succumbed and have bought an iPhone. After the initial euphoria at having rejoined Jobs' reality distortion zone I have started playing with some of the applications. Some of my new favourites now that I have an always on connection include twinkle (a localised twitted client), linkedin, facebook, ... http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=292 http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=291 I don't know about you, but I don't understand why multi-touch vendors all assume that people want to work in the same paradigm as a messy, cluttered desk. I am all for sweeping things aside when I want to clear some desktop space but I personally don't have things all ... http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=290 My wife was after a new phone. She has an existing Nokia N73 that was deciding to crash intermittently when she was on a call. Not a great phone to have when you are trying to run a business at the same time. She also wanted access to her emails ... http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=289 Have you always been an over person but found that you had to justify with people who insisted on it being under? Do you even understand what I am talking about? If not then head to this site that gives irrefutable proof that over is the correct way to lay ... http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=288 If you download the latest iTunes (7.7) you can now get access to the AppStore for iPod Touch and iPhone. You can't see it directly from the itunes store but you can get there by searching for "App" and then heading in to the search results. At the moment I ... http://dave.shakenmartini.net/blog/?p=287