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• Wondering if there’s a twitter client as convenient as TwitterFox for Symbian mobiles… #
• http://tinyurl.com/dkltxb looks good. Not sure I twitter enough to pay tho. Will keep it in mind if I get bk into it in a big way. Thx Kelly #
• http://fixoutlook.org/ - Why won’t Micro$oft to make Outlook 2010 support HTML properly…? Or at least as well as Outlook 2000! #
• No Windows 7 upgrade option for Europe!! Surely Micro$oft have shot themselves in the foot here…? http://tinyurl.com/n72a6m #
• Think we have a nanny-state in Britain? Spare a thought for Australia! Games with > 15 rating banned! http://tinyurl.com/kurjnf #

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• Loving the ladies football. Smashin stereotypes… With ads for tesco all round the ground! #

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• Is Zara.com the least usable web site ever? #
• just realised how much of a starbucks cappuccino is air! I feel ripped off! #

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• having buyers remorse http://tinyurl.com/n96n85 #

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On the face of it Nokia’s N96 seems like a device that does pretty much everything. Unfortunately it’s handicapped by pathetically miserable battery life (you’ll be charging this bugger at least once a day in all likelihood) and for some reason your text message inbox doesn’t display the date/time when messages arrived (like my old N73 did).

It doesn’t stop at the batter life though. Sadly BBC have seen fit to also cripple the N96’s iPlayer. The N96 comes with everything, headphones, a car charger and even an RCA cable to let you connect your phone to your TV and watch videos on your TV.  Which is great - except the iPlayer’s DRM prevents the video from being sent over the video-out line. WHHHAAAAT?!

I don’t know, it’s like they want people to download their shows from BitTorrent instead! At least that way you can do what you like with it once you have it.

In their defence, I guess it’s because it would make it possible to plug the TV-out cable into a PVR (or video recorder if you so wished) and record the programme without any DRM restrictions on it and retain it for as long as you want, but if someone’s THAT keen I’m sure they’ll find a way anyway.

The verdict? Swing and a miss!

• Vodafone seriously suck balls! #

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• Back in Belfast for a few days before heading off to work in London again! #

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• On that N96 iPlayer: “N96 has a big advantage over the iPhone: N96 will allow for streaming and downloading,”http://tinyurl.com/5wwsfh #
• Nagging doubts over the N96? Maybe you will have when you see the N85: http://tinyurl.com/5slquw #

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• Just paid about £18 for Corel Paint Shop Pro X2. http://tinyurl.com/56hbbs #
• Due another payment from Adsense in the next week or 2. Hooray for the strengthening Dollar! http://tinyurl.com/5k3tzj #
• Google’s comic about their new browser, Chrome, is long but worth reading. Interesting times in browserland. http://tinyurl.com/5b9ypb #
• Since Firefox crashed at 5:30 (as if it knew Google’s press conference) was at 6:00, I’ve downloaded Chrome. http://www.google.com/chrome #
• And the first thing I miss when using Chrome? TwitterFox! http://tinyurl.com/2bmr3q So just how extensible will Chrome be? #
• Nokia N96 is out TODAY!! http://tinyurl.com/nokia-n96 - and I forgot posts from Windows Live Writer don’t get sent to Twitter #
• O2 won’t stock N96! Looks like Vodafone or nowt for me then! http://tinyurl.com/63eqve #
• Got 2 tickets for sale for next Wednesday’s match which I can’t make. Face value (£40 each). If you want to go, let me know. #

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Oh dear - my heart’s all aflutter!! According to reports (from dialaphone, PC World magazine, Trusted Reviews and many more) Nokia’s long-awaited (by me, anyway) N96 has been released.

It hasn’t made it’s way to the shops or web sites of any of the operators yet, but Nokia are apparently shipping N96s already! The phone’s still showing as a pre-order on Nokia’s online shop, but presumably this is because they’re shipping to customers who pre-ordered first.

I also noticed yesterday and today that Vodafone are pushing the Samsung Omnia, which is free on a £35/month contract including data (oh, yes, the inclusive data plans that hit the shops 3-4 months ago are finally available online - I think).

I think it’s safe to say things just got quite interesting.