Archive For 2011

Push your Google+ posts to Twitter and Facebook

Although it’s not technically possible from Google+ itself quite yet (that API is taking it’s time..) outlined below is a quick and easy way of using dlvr.it and appspot to take your public Google+ posts and push them to your other social media accounts. Note: This is an unofficial method and will undoubtedly become outdated at [...]

The “Wn-R48″ (Windows on the Cr-48)

If you can get past the awful pun in the title, you may actually find this useful! Out of the 4 operating systems I’ve now tested, Windows is by far the best and most stable on the Cr-48. It works almost fully after a bit of tweaking (the WWAN mobile broadband card requires some hacking [...]

Want a Google+ invite?

Fill in this form and wait. http://invite.bayton.org That is all! Posted from Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom.

Publishing to external sources from Google+

Outlined below are a few services you can post to directly from Google+. Please note! This will undoubtedly become outdated as Google+ has a dedicated team working extremely hard on improving every aspect of the service. With that said, first I’ll show how to set up the environment. You can alter the below to cover any [...]

Dell Streak review. The Phone/Tablet Hybrid

I’ve been living with the Dell Streak now for a few months, having the chance to test it to its’ limits and being able to see how it performs as a standard phone/tablet hybrid. The one word that comes to mind fairly quickly is wow. I have used some phones in my time, but I [...]

BlueInput: The Bluetooth HID driver Google forgot to include

Do you find yourself typing far too much and too often on your phone or tablet? Are you struggling to get out all of the mails you need to in a relatively short time? Trying to blog on the go? If so, then you’re no different to me. Changing from a phone with a slideout [...]

Pushing Buzz to Twitter with dlvr.it

Following up from my previous post, Managing your social outreach with dlvr.it, I promised a follow-up with some basic how-to articles. In this article, I’ll be focusing on pushing Google Buzz to Twitter. For those who may not know, Google Buzz is my main social network of choice. Sure, I’m on others (hence my need for [...]

Managing your social outreach with dlvr.it

Have you ever written a blog post, and then individually linked to it from your different social networks? What about posting the same updates to each of your social networks, one at a time? If, like me, you have multiple networks (Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, etc) and want a service to manage the delivery of your [...]

When Awe met Some. The Cr-48 and Gnome3.

I mentioned previously how although I really like the hardware in the Cr-48, I had been having problems living completely “in the cloud”. Even though I spend 90% of my day in the cloud, for that last 10% I require a full desktop experience to do with whatever I need to. The last thing I [...]