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Read My Samsung Nexus S Review

Nexus S

The Samsung Nexus S is now my preferred mobile phone. Read on to find out why, but be warned, this is a lengthy post! Before the Nexus S Having been a a mac user for over 4 years and previously

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Add Google's plus 1 button to your wordpress site

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Learn how you can add google’s plus 1 button to your wordpress posts which will allow visitors to your website to recommend your content to their friends. Google added a feature to search results that let’s you recommend search results

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Posted in Web Technologies

Will HTML5 web books change the way we view the web?

20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web

HTML5 has been touted as changing the web for a while now, but will it change the way we read books? Last year Google published the HTML5 web book “20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web” but I largely ignored

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How to fix a Parse error: syntax error on your wordpress site

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How to fix a “Parse error: syntax error” on your wordpress site hosted by 1and1 I just broke my website and received the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’, expecting ‘)’ in /homepages/43/dbxxxx/htdocs/xxxx/wp-content/themes/arras/library/admin/options.php on line 216 This error

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How to flash the HBOOT on your HTC Desire

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I use Fastboot Commander which as a GUI based tool is the easiest way I have found to flash the HBOOT on your HTC Desire. A little disclaimer: Fastboot Commander is a tool that should only be used if you

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HTC Desire updated to Android 2.3.4

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Google have release the latest version of their phone operating system, Android 2.3.4 for the Nexus S. Among the improvements include upgrading the GTalk app to enable video chat to other Android users and GTalk PC or Mac users, over

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Apple replaced my scratched ipad 2 screen under warranty

This post will detail how Apple replaced my scratched iPad 2 screen free of charge. I recently took delivery of a new iPad 2 and have been having lots of fun with it. So much fun, that somehow, I managed

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Flipboard: a Great Way To Read News on the iPad

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Ever wonder why people make twitter lists?Is it to categorise the people they follow or to streamline the timeline? Maybe those clever people who make twitter lists do so because they use apps like Flipboard? Flipboard allows you to take

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Words With Friends

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This has to be one of my favourite apps. Words with friends lets you play scrabble against your friends. Simple. Whether playing against your friends or random opponents, this game will keep you occupied for hours. There is no time

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Posted in Game Reviews, Mobile

The Cost of iPad Apps

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Some of my favourite iPad apps are free e.g. Flipboard but if I need an app or think it deserves the purchase price I will pay. How do I make this decision? I regularly play Words with Friends and while there

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Chris Taylor
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Chris Taylor

Hi I'm Chris Taylor and I'm a web publisher from Belfast and you can find me all over the web (although I'm taking a break from twitter) at the sites below.

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