Archive for December, 2009

JokiuSpot – Enabling this post from the No. 4 bus

Dec 14th

Posted by Administrator in Geek/IT

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Ain’t technology brilliant.

Here I am sitting by the market in lancaster and I’m able to write a full, non mobile phone constrained blog post. OK, I know that you could achieve this with a 3G dongle quite succesfully, but what if you just have your Nokia E71 smartphone and you can’t be messed with all the setup to get it connected via bluetooth and all that jazz?

Well, JokiuSpot is a nifty utility for Nokia (and other) smartphones that sits inbetween your 3G connection (in this case Orange) and then turns your phone into a WiFi point. Yes, that’s right, a propper WiFi point that you can just connect to wirelessly with your PC / Mac whatever. The only downside seems to be that the phone turns red hot and that the battery starts draining as if you’d plugged a 3 bar electric fire into it, however job done.

The free version does this, and the premium (reasonable price) adds support for full encryption and VPN!

Happy days.

Zemanta – Enhancing this post.

Dec 13th

Posted by chris_dixon in Geek/IT

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Via @mikepeat I came across this plugin called Zemanta. It sits alongside blogging tools (both online and hosted) and analyses your blog post, including spelling mistakes and the suggests other links and images that might be appropriate. If you do like the things that it finds, then you can just drag them straight into your post, which is pretty useful.

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As an example it’s currently provided the image that you can see on the RHS of this page, and it’s also added all the hyperlinks that show up in this post, which is pretty good, and the links at the bottom. At first glance it seems really easy to use, and as you type more it refines it’s suggestions and offers you new content. So, worth a try if you’re still blogging like the old days.

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