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    BBC iPlayer - Don’t Cross the Streams

    The web’s abuzz with the news that the BBC’s iPlayer has made its first tentative steps toward sanity and put together a Flash video based streaming service that’s DRM unencumbered. Roo’s put together a good review of the service, and assorted others have chimed in with their comments.
    I was going to do a Roo-style “what […]


    And another thing on the E61…

    Look, I’m sorry, but I just can’t let this E61 business lie. Hopefully Jerakeen’s having better luck with his E61i (I sincerely wish him the best), but really:

    The “mail” button. I’ve deleted my email account (the one using the built-in mail client) on the phone because I don’t have a work email account at the […]


    More Google UI improvements

    Google appear to be making more incremental improvements to their UI. Unlike the big-bang explosion of having Analytics being Veened, Google Calendar appears to have just done one tiny little bit of chrome, here:

    It’s the “My Calendars” navigation on the left hand pane of the Calendar interface. There’s a shiny “Add” now.
    Clicking it brings […]


    Oxford Circus - Google Maps

    I live in Google Maps half the time now - don’t carry an A-Z around anymore now that I’ve got unlimited 3G data and Google Maps on my phone - but today was the first that I noticed that a search for Oxford Circus now highlights the station with a graphic highlighting the different lines […]


    Gorgeous Google Analytics Goodness

    Jeff Veen (and the rest of the blogging world) brings news of a new and shiny update to Google Analytics - not only new functionality (email reporting - something that I’d be using in my day job), but a brand spanking new user interface that not only looks bright, clear and easy to read, but […]