Stories that caught my eye this week – 15th November 2008:

• URLs for iPhone-Optimized Google Sites
• Slife 2.0 for Windows Leaves Beta [In Brief]
• Google Launches Voice and Video Chat Inside Gmail [Video Chat]
• Find and Download Higher Resolution Videos on YouTube [YouTube]

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I spent a frustrating couple of hours yesterday trying to get output from a database into a web page – something that I have done many times before. However, on this occasion as the query was complex I decided that it needed to go into a stored procedure. I quickly got that working and tested via query analyser and then plugged it into my asp page. No matter what I tried I could not get the query to run and I was getting pretty frustrated. Finally I got a message that I could Google, as follows:

ADODB.Recordset error ‘800a0e78’

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Stories that caught my eye this week – 18th October 2008:

• The Myth of All Day Computing
• Quicken Online Drops Subscription Fee, Now Free [Quicken]
• Who Links to Non-Existing Pages from Your Site?
• Internet use ‘good for the brain’
• Ah, the irony! SAP freezes internal IT purchases
• Whom Should You Friend?
• iTunes 8 Makes It Easy to Convert Any File to an Audiobook [ITunes]
• Rules for Working From Home
• Paul Graham on Why Start a Company in a Bad Economy

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You may have noticed a new look to the site today (still tweaking so expect some more subtle changes). I decided that not only did it need a refresh but also a slight change of emphasis.

Since spinning the site out of my personal blog I have covered anything technology based that has taken my fancy. However, going forward I have decided to focus on the topic of remote working.

This new emphasis will look at many of the areas that I have covered in the past, such as mobile devices, cloud based apps, and gadgets for the mobile … Read the rest

These are some of the stories I have been reading this week:

• Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners [Hive Five]
• Understanding Online Photo Rights
• The 2009 Compact Calendar Now Available [Printables]
• Google Chrome as Future Operating System [Google Chrome]
• Find Out Where a Username is Already Registered [Identity]
• T-Mobile G1 launch day roundup
• Google Contacts Has a Standalone Site [Google Contacts]
• London top for Wi-Fi business use worldwide
• Coming soon: Changes to the spreadsheets interface
• iYo YOYO Induction Charger lets you enjoy your tunes sans AC

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These are some of the stories I have been reading this week:

• Google Chrome, a Shell for the Web
• Updates Announced For Google Gears And Google Desktop
• PureText Cleans Your Clipboard Copied Text
• Snubbed by Apple, iPhone App Developer Turns to ‘Ad Hoc’ Distribution
• Google adds Street View and walking directions to mobile Maps
• Much debate but few answers at Mobilize

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These are some of the stories I have been reading this week:

• Share, Sync, and Back Up Files with Dropbox
• Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Commercial #2: I Remain Confused
• Table of Contents, Dictionary and Thesaurus in Google Docs
• Mobile Industry Discovers It’s the Software, Stupid
• Yahoo Brings a Social Address Book to the iPhone
• Presentations turns 1
• Are Linux Programmers Getting Too Fat?
• Move over T9, here comes Swype

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