What Would You Like To Read?

29Nov08

I started this blog just under a month ago; the first post being on 3rd November. I’ve mostly written about new technology, applications or websites and will continue to do so. But to gain a readership, I feel there’s a missing link; a unique selling point, if you like. 
So the hammer falls to you. The [...]

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Tags: Blog, Blogging, Ed, Ed Parry, Parry, Questions, Read, Twitter

Search Yourself Online

23Nov08

As a small test, I thought I’d see what came up when I typed “Ed Parry” into Google. The results were quite surprising.
Alongside the expected Facebook profile, various other profiles and expired blogs were found that I had no idea were still active. There was nothing that posed a serious threat to me, but with potential employers [...]

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Tags: Ed Parry, Google, Results, Search

Made of Awesome

22Nov08

With Christmas just around the corner and online shopping highly popular, ideas for gifts are starting to appear, and for myself, I stumbled across Spreadshirt.net. 
It’s a brilliant website, giving you the ability to design your own clothing, with text, icons and images. It’s also relatively cheap too; a mens hoody with text printed on front and back [...]

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Tags: Christmas, Clothing, Design, Spreadshirt

Digital Switchover 2012

22Nov08

For those of you who are unaware (most likely US readers), the UK is turning the analogue signal off. This means that pressing 1 – 5 on a television won’t bring up BBC 1 – Five. Instead, everything will be accessed from a digital signal; Freeview, Sky, Digibox etc. 
This is all fine for the majority; [...]

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Tags: 2012, Digital, Freeview, Sky, Switchover, TV

EventBox Simplicity

21Nov08

Currently in the beta stages, EventBox from The Cosmic Machine, is an application aimed at adding simplicity to social networking, allowing you to keep on top from just one simple application.
It currently supports Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, Pownce and Reddit, but has plans to add many more services in the future, including Last.FM and del.icio.us. 
Once [...]

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Tags: Apple, EventBox, Mac, The Cosmic Machine