Here’s a neat little idea to stop you accidentally crushing your phone when it is left on the floor while charging.
This simple plastic device slips over your wall charger and has a platform that folds down onto which you can rest your phone – this is slightly angled upwards and rubberised to stop the phone slipping off if accidentally knocked.
Simple, cheap and effective.
Following on from yesterdays post about removing the strap from a Pebble we bring you the sequel… putting a new strap on a Pebble!
See the short video below to see just how easy it is:
I have a voracious appetite for technology news which by and large is satisfied by twitter and apps such as the excellent Zite.
An even more hardcore technology news source is Hacker News. This is little more than a collection of user submitted links that are that voted up or down by other users. Eventually interesting and popular stories float to the top of the list. Unfortunately there is far too much stuff there to read it all and sometimes I just want a leisurely offline read. Enter Hacker Monthly.
Hacker Monthly is a curated version of … Read the rest
There are all sorts of rumours swirling around at the moment about whether Apple is going to create a larger version of the iPhone. By which I don’t mean just a stretched version (yeah iPhone 5 I am looking at you) but a properly proportioned version.
The suggestion is that later this year Apple is going to release and iPhone with a 5 inch screen. Why that size? Because its dimensions would mean that they could do so without having to change the user interface. Which is exactly what they did for the iPad Mini only in reverse. Marco Arment … Read the rest
Think it is going to be a while before my Mailstrom account is going to be ready…
This is what happens when you get a positive shout out from Lifehacker!… Read the rest
Spotted this on Twitter today and thought it was a great tip for those, like myself, that occasionally get sent Photoshop images for review but don’t have Adobe’s software to open the file.
It would appear that Google Drive has the ability to read and display PSD images along with the more standard office documents.
More details from Digital Inspiration.… Read the rest
So these arrived in the post today – a Mini DisplayPort to VGA and a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI connector for use with my MacBook. Both have been packaged to look like their Apple equivalents and I can confirm that they certainly work like their Apple equivalents.
The difference? The Apple originals would have set me back £46.46 while these were £11.78, both prices included postage.
Pair this was a £1 HDMI cable from PoundLand and I am all set?
Is there anyone out there that could convince me that I would be better off buying the Apple originals?
I am a big fan of Google’s Autheticator app which adds 2-factor authentication to a number of popular apps including Dropbox, WordPress, LastPass and, of course, Google accounts.
Since my mother-in-law’s GMail account was compromised and she wasn’t able to recover it I have considered the use of 2-factor authentication as mandatory rather than a nicety.
What this means in practice is that in order to access your account you need something that you know (the password) and something that you have (your phone). This should considerably increase your online security as if anyone does get your password they still … Read the rest
One of the things that I hadn’t been quite prepared for with working from home was the number of phone calls that I would get from random individuals. It’s actually quite ridiculous the number that feel I need help with my energy supply, PPI reclaim and so on.
However, until today, I hadn’t had one of those fabled calls from abroad telling me that I had an issue with my Windows PC and offering to remotely fix it for me.
Whenever the phone rings and the display says “International” my heart sinks but when this caller said that she was … Read the rest
