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IPhone 3G S: the ultimate mobile video blogging tool
OK, so I caved in and got an iPhone 3G S approximately half-a-day after it was released and not before bitching up a storm on Twitter about o2's upgrade policies (I finally ponied up for the pay-as-you-go version which means that I'm approximately £450 poorer now and will be living on beans for the rest [...]
Embedding Viddler videos at full resolution
Viddler produces some of the highest quality web video I've seen. More importantly, they don't resize your video as you're uploading it so it's perfect for screencasts. It's a shame, then, that their default embed code has static hardcoded dimensions instead of the actual dimensions of your video which means that your video gets scaled [...]
An easier way to sign in to T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots
I can access T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots with my T-Mobile Mobile Broadband account (I have a 3G USB stick) but I find the signing in process rather painful. It goes something like this:
I have to remember my phone number (I never call my USB Stick so I've never memorized it) and type in my [...]
Focus!
In my talks on user experience, I mention the importance of focus (in the context of user experience being the central focus-point of the development process). It's time to apply the same principle to my life in general. My interests, the technologies I work with, my various projects, and activities have somewhat accumulated to the [...]
The Flex 4 One-Step Migration Challenge
Dear Flex community and Flex engineering team, I have a challenge for you: let's make Flex 4 migration a one-step process.
Yesterday, I documented the trouble I had in porting my Flex 3 app to Flex 4 and I blamed the move from the Fx prefix to namespaces for my woes. As some of you have [...]

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