Nokia 6136 Phone

Smooth and seamless transitions between GSM and WLAN networks
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Available: Planned in the second quarter of 2006

All I can say is watch this space … <thinking aloud>What’ll be most interesting is how they achieve the voip/wlan link - cisco integration, skype, avaya? - gonna have to do some investigation me thinks ! </thinking aloud>

Frosy Grass is by far my most successful piece of gnome art; it’s got my best rating in art.gnome.org, and has a massive 3209 downloads (art.gnome = 2425 gnome look = 784).

Today, I just found something really cool, Frosty Grass is in a novel presentation video !!!!!!
Take a look at http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/58 it’s a demonstration of new rendering for gnome; fancy transparent windows, flipping desktops, all that cool stuff. As you’ll notice in the 1st few seconds of the video my art work is in the folder that gets moved,stretched and faded in the presentation !

I found this over the weekend….

Spyware, Adware, Spam, Phishing, Viruses, Identity Theft Protection | SiteAdvisor
SiteAdvisor helps protect you from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser-based attacks, phishing, online fraud and identity theft.

It seems cool, a different approach the the anit-phishing type stuff. Basically you get a simple security report about the sites you visit. The report comes in the flavour of a traffic light in your browser toolbar, green is safe - red is not. Another nice touch is the traffic light is added to our google results, so before you even click on a site you can determine how ‘hostile’ the webmaster may be.

I now have a new site look and feel

It’s been a little while in the making, but I thought, nearly 1yr of uptime was grounds for a new site theme. I wanted something clean, simple, and different from the last one; hopefully it’s nice, readable and easy on the eye.

If you’ve been playing with the theme switcher you’ll need to delete your cookies

Inspiration hit me last night, how about using the gnome foot - which is a ‘G’ - as the ‘g’ in blog or blogger.

So here we have it… Gnome Blogger

The back grounds are transparent so you can mess with the colours, I’ve done a light and a dark one depending on your taste !

It looks like gallery2 has buggered up the screen shots :(, so you can see some at art.gnome or gnome-look:

• Gnome Blogger white.
• Gnome Blogger black

I was reading schoble’s blog about blogcode , and in it he talks about using a made up word to f*ck with the blogging system, load of people have done it, so I thought I’d join the flock….

brrreeeport

… Baaaaaah

This article from yesterday cannot go unmentioned….

BBC NEWS | Business | Nokia launching net call handsets
Nokia is introducing new mobile phone handsets that will enable users to make calls over the Internet.

Nokia putting Skype were the 1st people to try and offer consumers or “Joe public” voip phones for home use, it’s not that the technology is new, cisco & avaya have been offering businesses the technology for years, it’s just that it wasn’t quite right for the market at large.

UPDATE: This Plugin has been updated, the below links to the new file, but please comment on the new post, thanks.

I’ve been busy this AM, my site is a little bit integrated with WordPress, basically I call the header and footer from WP so that my custom code changes themes when WordPress does

I want to take it further and use the authentication cookie, so that my code recognizes me when I log in (in the same way WordPress does). In order for linickx.com to see the cookie set by linickx.com/blog, I need to change the COOKIEPATH. The change is actually quite simple, in fact the “set cookie” function is a pluggable one

Google Personal Homepage Running Suggest

I’ve just posted this on digg, I’m not a fan of google suggest, mainly because firefox already suggests more useful things ..(i.e. stuff I’ve used before not random google important stuff, I’ll be interesting to see what digg fans think.

I’ve been putting off upgrading to firefox 1.5 for ages, but my curiosity for this extension finally got the better of me !

Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you’re viewing in firefox

I know this isn’t exactly new news , so there are lots of places to find out about it ! I’ve been playing with it a little today, and still am undecided on whether it’s cool or annoying.

My health isn’t too great at the moment, so I’m a little behind the times

I just found this CoComment Plugin for WordPress and thought it was worth a plug ! I like CoComment because I really think it’s going to make people life easier, personally I’ve started commenting on blogs; I never really did before because I couldn’t be bothered to find out what was said after I left, but now I get the conversation delivered as an RSS feed !!!!!!!!!

So to spread the word you’ll find a co-comment link at the bottom of my posts, get the plugin and spread the word yourself !

Calcylator isn’t a big web 2.0 application, but there are area’s where it’ll fit quite nicely with some of the new delivery methods.

AJAX is a technology that differentiates traditional websites with 2.0 ones; the basic idea is that pages are delivered to the user with less page refreshes (thus less bandwidth, in turn quicker !). A good example of a 2.0 site vs a traditional one is maps.google.co.uk vs ebay.co.uk. With ebay you’ll notice every time you update something the page refreshes & the URL changes. If you look at maps.google you’ll notice the URL never changes, in fact if you hit “refresh” on the browser any changes you made to the page disappear.

Tiz cool when things get published on other sites, my h4×0r theme is on themes.wordpress.net

cool

shame i can’t work out how to link to them properly !

coComment - clear conversation in the blogosphere
Tired of commenting and LOSING TRACK of your discussions?

I don’t comment a lot on other peoples blogs, the main reason being that I don’t have the time to go back and see what someone else said after me, which then kinda makes the comment pointless. I’ve come across this co-comment thingy and this am I received my account invitation.

The product seems quite cool, tiz the usual ajax interface all new blogging tools, and it’s like a dashboard of any comments you made, and the content they appeared in, so yes, it’s very easy to see what happened after you dropped your pearl of wisdom

I thought I’d try something different

I’ve been playing with wordpress for nearly a year now, and thought it’d be cool to make a publicly available theme, I wasn’t sure on what to do so I thought I’d start with a simple pallet. My theme is a black on green code looking theme, you know the hacker site style; to make it more interesting I added some matrix references, and silly bits of php code.

The theme has been tested on wp 1.5 & 2.01 (including a blank one as requested on the codex) , there is a screenshot and I’ve also installed a theme switcher so you can demo it