Dave Riley

iPhone… the waiting!

Ok, so I finally did it. I've commited to building some iPhone apps. The mac has been ordered, a mac mini with 4gb memory and 360hd. The developer community has been joined and now we wait. No idea where this is going to go. it's exciting but nervous at the same time. I've got some ideas for some free apps that I want to introduce and will put some of the tech details here. But beyond that I do not know, hoping for some inspiration. Any suggestions or ideas for new iPhone apps to...

Are you having a Windows 7 party?

Ok, I've got Windows 7 now, do I need to organise a launch party? Well why not? any excuse for a party is good especially in these grim times... But aren't these people a little too geeky even for my tastes? So far I think Windows 7 is cool, appart from some problems with Firefox it's been a dream to install and the new features are mostly benificial. But I don't want to get carried away. A lot of the new features should have been addressed a long time ago and this won't halt the...

Google mail and your own domains

Google mail is a great way to run multiple domain addresses as it can reply from the address it was sent too, try that in Outlook! One annoying problem for me is sometimes it "has difficulty" sending the email from your domain, maybe a timeout on the server or some other network issue. When this occurs Google will "kindly" forward your email using your gmail account instead. Now this sounds reasonable but it's annoying if you have your own business and you are effectively replying to...

New google is available for testing by developers

Google has announced on the official webmaster central blog that the next version of Google search is available for developer testing. It looks the same but there have been radical changes to the underlying algorithms this should make the results more relevant and better quality. You can find the new search engine at: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ At first glance,it's downgraded my site :-( not too happy with that... Bing...

Have you taken the blind search test?

You might think that you prefer Google,but what would you choose if you didn't know what search engine you are using and just had to choose based on the results? Now you can find out at http://blindsearch.fejus.com if you do try it please leave a comment with what you're results are I'd love to know. Finally we can have...