2006
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By Mike on December 12, 2006
Feeling festive yet? No, me neither.. Two weeks today till the big day and I still have a ton of Christmas shopping still to do…
For those of you who need to get into the festive spirit, Debenhams have something free to get you on your way.. Remember the remixed Santa Baby song used in the [...]
Posted in Other | Tagged Advert
By Mike on November 16, 2006
3G mobile provider 3 have announced a very exciting new product that will launch here in the UK this December – Its called X-Series.
A mobile experience for a broadband world
3 have got together some of the big boys of the internet to give you a truly mobile internet experience:
Skype
Yahoo
Orb
Sling
Google
eBay
MSN Messenger
All of these, make up a [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged 3, x-series
By Mike on October 26, 2006
Nokia have announced yet another special edition version of their camcorder mobile the N93. This time the handset is being bundled with Mission: Impossible 3
The action-packed feature film will be offered as part of the Nokia N93 sales package with no additional cost to consumers. Available in Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93, nokia
By Mike on September 29, 2006
I have gotten myself a new handset at last – all that build-up to getting the Nokia N93 – I decided that 1 – it was going to be too big, 2 – as feature-packed as it is, it still seemed pretty flawed and 3 – hardly any networks are supporting the handset here in [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged 3, n73, nokia
By Mike on August 14, 2006
Actor/Director Gary Oldman has released his short film taken using a Nokia N93 for the Nokia N-Series Studio entitled Donut.
Set to a haunting soundtrack, Gary Oldman captures a moment that would generally be overlooked: a mesmerizing image an inner tubes shadow as seen through cool, rippling water.
You can check out the rest of N-Series Studio [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93, nokia, video
By Mike on August 11, 2006
The Nokia N93 is now slowly starting to surface, although here in the UK it is frustratingly only available on the o2 network (boo, hiss!) and for some time I believe (boo, hiss!).
Anyways, some people have bitten the bullet and managed to get their hands on this feature-packed handset. With a 3.2 megapixel camera [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93, nokia
By Mike on July 26, 2006
BlueHarvest: Manage DS_Store, resource forks, Trashes and more.
(tags: apple hack osx filesystem mac software tools)
OSXFAQ – Technical News and Support for Mac OS X
(tags: apple hack mac osx finder)
dabble | launchpad
(tags: video vlog community)
Raging Menace – MenuMeters
(tags: apple mac osx software tools Utilities monitor)
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 26, 2006
After much waiting Mac users can now get a beta version of Skype for Mac with Video. This feature was added to the new Skype 2.0 for Windows back in May, as usual Mac users have had to wait..
This video beta is running in parallel to the new Skype for Mac 1.5 which has also [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Mac, skype
By Mike on July 24, 2006
Yeeeesss!!!
The news that I have finally be waiting for, straight from the horses mouth, the Nokia N73 and (the one that I’m interested in) the Nokia N93 are now shipping.
Nokia’s announcement on the N73:
Nokia is proud to announce that shipments have begun for the Nokia N73, a stunning multimedia computer with excellent photography features and [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n73, n93, nokia
By Mike on July 21, 2006
NODE101
(tags: Blog video community vlog media videoblog)
Current TV // The TV Network Created By The People Who Watch It
(tags: tv video videoblog vlog media)
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 21, 2006
I have to say that my purchase of Mint was the best $30 I have spent!
My webstats are so much easier to read now – and the information that can be gained from the additional Peppers is just facisaniting. For instance – on Tues when I checked, I had some hits from Beirut, Lebanon [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 20, 2006
Looks like the VoIP wars are starting to hot up with the announcement that the Gizmo Project now have free calls to landlines and mobiles with their ‘All Calls Free’ plan.
The Gizmo Project All Calls Free plan allows you to make free phone calls to other active Gizmo Project users in 60 countries around [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 20, 2006
For a very quick and simple way to send somebody a video message, check out hellodeo.
The great thing about Hellodeo is that all you need is a webcam and and web browser! No special software installs required. Using the Flash recorder and player on the Hellodeo homepage, you can quickly record your message, upload [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 19, 2006
Well it looks like the much anticipated Nokia N93 is soon to hit the shelves as Nokia now have the support pages for the handset online.
Check out the Nokia N93 demo pages, User Guides, Available Software and FAQ’s.
It can now only be a matter of time…
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93, nokia
By Mike on July 17, 2006
Everyday this week I am giving away a free invisibleSHIELD* to one lucky reader.
Yes, I liked the invisibleSHIELD that I reviewed here so much that I’ve teamed up with the folks at Shieldzone so that five lucky readers can protect their own gadgets with an invisibleSHIELD of their choice*.
If like me, you like to keep [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 16, 2006
Hellodeo
(tags: Blog video odeo webcam flash)
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 14, 2006
Looks like the way-out-of-touch UK law that currently means that devices like the iTrip are illegal is set to change at the end of this year.
The law dating back to 1949(!) is finally being brought up-to-date by UK communications regulator Ofcom and should be in place by December. Currently the law prevents devices broadcasting FM [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 14, 2006
Please note that feeds to igadgetlife.com have been moved across to Feedburner. The switch should have been seamless, but should you get any problems point your reader to
http://feeds.feedburner.com/nechbi
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 13, 2006
theory.isthereason
(tags: Blog technology)
PaulStamatiou.com – tech news/reviews/guides
(tags: technology blog)
O’Reilly Network Weblogs: Quartz Composer iSight Prank
(tags: isight video osx hack apple quicktime quartz)
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 13, 2006
Well the transition to WordPress from MovableType has gone pretty smoothly. I am very happy with the results and am liking the way that the site looks, I hope that you do too. I have had to make some major changes to the way the site was structured from when is was driven [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 13, 2006
The man who already has his hands on the much awaited Nokia N93 over at My Phone Rocks has been capturing some more images at a recent concert in Minneapolis last week.
The video demonstration is pretty neat, using the zoom to get right in n the band. Ok the zoom quality isn’t as a [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93, nokia, video
By Mike on July 13, 2006
Russian mobile phone site Mobile Review have a couple new videos demonstrating the Nokia N93 in its various operational modes, check them out below:
N93 in normal (vertical) mode
N93 in landscape mode
The first video looks pretty straight-forward, it’s the landscape mode that interests me.. I wonder how easy it really is to type messages [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93, nokia, video
By Mike on July 13, 2006
I love my Mint installation – it’s such a great web stats solution. It’s great watching what people are looking at, where they came from and where they go.
Of course I can’t sit and look at the stats page all day long, there is another way to see activity using Mint Junior, a Dashboard [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 13, 2006
The guys over at Phone Scoop have put together a video showcasing the Nokia N80 for you guys out there that want to get your hands on one.
Regular readers to this site will know that I purchased a Nokia N80 as soon as it came out, but soon realised that the handset wasn’t all it [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n80, nokia
By Mike on July 12, 2006
I hate SPAM!!
It’s just everywhere. You get it in your emails, I’ve had it in my website comments and trackbacks, now they are driving me mad in my website stats.
I think that website statistics are fascinating – it’s so interesting to see what people are looking at and how they get to my website. [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 12, 2006
Yes folks the waiting is now over, the beta 1 release of Firefox 2.0 is now available for download. Although not publically announced on the Mozilla website the files are all live on their FTP Server.
Featuring a built-in spell-checker (a must-have for us bloggers!), a phishing filter, built-in session restore, more control of those tabs [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 10, 2006
Watch out Flickr here comes Zooomr!
Zooomr are currently giving away free Pro Accounts to bloggers who sign-up and start using them.
Here is my first upload, a picture of Harvey taken last night waiting patiently for food during a BBQ!
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 8, 2006
Win one of five invisibleSHIELDsÂ
As all of you gadget lovers out there know, one of the most important things about looking after your valuable accessory is to keep it scratch-free. There is nothing worse than that feeling you get when your gadget has received it’s first bump or scratch.
One of the most important [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged k750i, sony ericsson
By Mike on July 7, 2006
Ubisoft are demonstrating one of their new games for the up-and-coming Nintendo Wii. Rayman Raving Rabbids is the latest in the Rayman series and this sneak-peek shows the new consoles controller in action..
Also checkout some more fun Raving Rabbid videos over at YouTube:
Posted in Consoles | Tagged nintendo, wii
By Mike on July 5, 2006
Looks like Sony Ericsson’s new handset the K800i is out in the wild here in the UK as one web blogger has uploaded some example pictures to their website.
I have to say that the picture quality is just stunning!!
Also check out another Gallery of images taken using a K800i.
Check out the official Sony Ericsson [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged k800i, sony ericsson
By Mike on July 5, 2006
Sony Ericisson have launched their advert for their new K800i 3 mega-pixel Cyber-Shot cameraphone.
Featuring 18 year-old Ana Ivanovic (from Serbia) and 23 year-old Daniela Hantuchova (from Slovakia) showing off their tennis skills across some Manhattan roof tops, with an apartment resident capturing the tournement on his K800i.
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged Advert, k800i, sony ericsson
By Mike on July 5, 2006
For those of you who would like optical zoom for your mobile phone’s camera, now you can with the MobilePhone Telescope that you attach to your phones camera to allow up to 6x optical zoom.
The MobilePhone Telescope kit comes with a replacement back cover for your handset that allows the telescopic lens to be screwed [...]
Posted in Mobiles
By Mike on July 4, 2006
Leaked pictures of Nokia’s next hot new mobile have been floating about on the net for a while, but it would seem that there is some confusion over the name of the new handset with some sites calling it the Nokia N95, but from the Russian site Mobile Review, it clearly shows that the handset [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n95, nokia
By Mike on July 1, 2006
Over at MyPhoneRocks.com they demo that you can actually watch the video you are recording live from your Nokia N93 on your TV at the same time!
How cool is that?
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93, nokia, TVs, video
By Mike on June 29, 2006
“The beginning of a new era” is the greeting to the newly launched Playstation 3 website.
Highlighting the new hardware specs, some of the games we can expect, and a host of images of the much anticipated new console.
Go check it out!
Posted in Consoles
By Mike on June 28, 2006
As you will probably have noticed things have changed a little over the last couple of days. I have decided to ditch MovableType and move my blog across to WordPress. I have been toying with the idea of doing this for some months now, after a couple of test installations on my server, [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on June 27, 2006
A team from The Netherlands has won the inaugural Cannes Lions Young Creatives’ Film Competition for which entries were filmed on the new Nokia N93 mobile video device.
Their brief was to produce a 30-second commercial that motivates business travellers to bring their partner to Cannes for a weekend break. The advertisement is to be hosted [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged n93, nokia, video
By Mike on June 24, 2006
It would seem that the replacement to the hugely popular Sony Ericisson K750i – the K800i is due for release at the start of July. I have already seen the handset on the e2save.com website.
Excellent news… now if only I could have a better indication of when the Nokia N93 is likley to [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged k800i, sony ericsson
By Mike on June 21, 2006
Nokia have announced the Nokia Podcasting Application for Nokia Nseries multimedia computers (smartphones to you and me).
Now you don’t need to have a PC to download your favourite podcasts, you can get them direct to your phone using this application. Unfortunately I don’t think that this is really going to appeal to many users, [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged nokia, software
By Mike on June 20, 2006
Please note that feeds to igadgetlife.com have now been moved over to Feedburner. Hopefully this switch should have been seamless.
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