Category Archives: lifestyle & health
So….I’ve had a very productive Sunday
What have I done today?
❑ I woke up at around 8:30am
❑ Walked the dogs
❑ Changed cat litter
❑ Quick Hoover
❑ Loaded Dish Washer
❑ Made a bacon sarni
❑ Surfed the net
❑ Watched Halloween Movies 1 – 8
❑ Surfed the new some more
The end
Just Logged Into Twitter….It’s Here!
logged into the Twitter home page tonight for the first time in ages, I don’t really use the web for Twitter usually use Tweetie client on my mac and Tweetie2 on my iPhone and that’s about it.
I logged in today and the first thing that took my eye was this:
Twitter Lists! They are finally here, not quite sure what I am going to do with them or how I am going to set them up but i’m sure I will find a way of using them nicely.
Been playing around with them and currently created the following as test ones // these will probably change though in time and I will organise them much better with each list having specific people in for say like //
- Internet Marketing Geniuses such as @shoemoney
- iPhone / Mac Geeks such as @ijustine @iphone_dev @musclenerd @iphonearena
- Mates such as @sarkie_dave @tonyyates @leecoupland
- Family such as @eckafatcat @rhodzy62 @solance
- Internet Mates such as @jerkmagnet @nikki_morris @rickt
Blah blah you get the picture!
Also noticed a few extra options on the home screen relating to the twitter lists:
This image has one change that is noticeable, it shows how many times you have been added into your followers lists, you can also follow these lists is the user has made them public instead of private.
This image also shows you the list of your Lists that have been created!
Get’s me wondering what other plans twitter has to make it better! I definitely didn’t see Twitter Lists coming!
Something tells me my dogs don’t like me on the PS3!
Just had a message on twitter from the Mrs…
This is how it went…
“Someones in trouble” with a link to an image.
This is what I saw….
Looks like I wont be playing on this game anymore!
So this is the second time my dogs have done this to me, they stand on the power button to turn on the PS3, they hit the eject button and then they remove the disk from the PS3! Not sure what I have done to them but they obviously don’t like me playing on games lol
I’m turning into an Internet / Blogging / Social Networking FREAK!
It seems to be happening to me, I am being sucked in by all the social networking sites you can imagine, not only social networking either. The three logos at the top are the three killers for me, Twittering, Facebooking and Blogging! Twitter is the most used site I use followed by a close second to my blog then coming in last is Facebook which I seem to have gone off.
I once deleted my facebook account but found myself logging back in to reactivate and then disabling it, I just couldn’t stay away from it. It’s kind of like an addiction that is really hard to give up, not sure what it is about these three platforms but it really has me under the thumb, if Twitter told me run around the streets naked I probably would.
I wake up in a morning and within 30 minutes of opening my eyes I always check these.
Not in any particular order but always within 30 minutes these are checked and then checked probably every couple of hours after that throughout the day until I go to bed and that is just a couple of the sites I check regularly.
Throughout the day I usually check on the following sites:
Now I know the above aren’t exactly social networking sites but still, you can communicate with other users from around the globe and share information so I guess it could be classed as social networking but not the same as sites such as twitter and facebook.
The after a little longer i’ll probably go back and check them over and over again, I find myself becoming obsessed and searching the internet for different sites, reading thing that don’t even interest me, writing about things that I don’t really know about, checking out forums, reading tutorials, looking for something that I want to have (a recent example of that is setting up my own short custom URL service) http://rzy.me
It’s more like an addiction and there is nothing that I can do about it!
For all you bloggers out there this icon may/may not mean the same to you as it does to me.
WordPress (which is used to power my blogs) is starting to take up more and more of my time the more I use it. I used to go through stages on how many blog posts I would write, when I find something really interesting I blog about it, If I have a rant I blog about it. Sometimes I just don’t blog at all no matter what is or what isn’t going on.
I’ve set my self a task now that I am going to write much better posts / interesting posts and at least 1 post per day if not more. I do have quite a few websites on the go at the moment and find it difficult to know where to start / which I should start with and how far I should go there always seems to be something else that needs doing / updating / fixing.
I’m not sure if blogging would come under the social networking category either but it certainly connects you to the world.
Those are just a few of the sites / applications I use and check on a regular basis throughout the day and that’s not even mentioning the other email accounts I have or logins for other sites / forums.
Before I forget also, the latest trend that seems to be out there at the moment:
Yep thats right, Google Wave, as good as it is, I also find myself checking this more and more often as I start to use the service more and more, this is even while it is in preview mode and not even gone live…meaning none of my friends are currently on, so you can only imagine how much hammer it is going to get when they finally get on and ride the wave!
I put this all down to one thing and one thing only:
The iPhone! My most valued possession, the one thing I would really feel lost without, the one thing I never leave the house with, the one thing I have a charger for in my car, my house, at work and also always carry my USB sync cable around with me at all time just incase I need to charge from my laptop / computer or even someone else’s computer.
It really is true what Apple say, there really is an app for everything! Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave, Email, reddit and digg plus much more that I use!
I often ask myself what I would do with my time if I didn’t use any of these services or even the internet!
Getting a really funny feeling about Android
My day started as normal today, getting up and getting ready for work, collecting my things and making sure I have my iPhone with me and this is when things started to feel a little different.
Not quite sure what it is or why I am thinking like this, but I think…maybe just maybe I’m looking for a change, maybe I really want to go back to Android.
I had the G1 some time ago when it first got released and I ended up selling my iPhone 2G, it didn’t last long but it did have some really good features. Now I feel the same again as I did with the G1, I want to try it, use it, know how it works and see if there is any major improvements since I had it a couple of years ago, wondering if the G2 is much better than the G1 all these questions are just making me want to sell my iPhone 3G and replace it with a G2 or something else running Android. What to do? Do I do it? Dont I do it? Will I regret it? Will it be better than the iPhone? All these questions are just tempting me and pushing me away from the iPhone making me want to take the risk and find out for myself yet again.
My iPhone 3G is not on contract and is currently unlocked to the T-Mobile network, my contact with T-Mobile is up in March next year, so really if I change now and sell my iPhone 3G and buy an Android mobile with the money, if I don’t like it, I can always upgrade my handset in March and get another iPhone, maybe the 3GS?
Me being me I know what will happen, I will make the switch, hate it, be stuck with it until next year and then get an iPhone but no matter how much people try and talk me out of doing it / or tell me how much I should do this, either way I think my mind is made up.
I’ll spend tonight looking through what applications are available for Android and read up on reviews, it must have an excellent Twitter client such as Tweetie 2 which allows you to use custom URLS and also allow you to upload photos to custom URLS also. If that is the case then I can’t see why I wont have my iPhone 3G up for sale by this weekend.
It’s not that I don’t like Apple, I love Apple, Apple is my life but I’m just getting that taste in my mouth to try something completely different and unfortunately until I go through with this, the taste will always be there.