Archive for 19th December 2007

Use your Nokia Online

http://www.nokia.com/A4705179

Overview
Nokia PC Phone is an experimental service that gives you a possibility to use your mobile phone with your Web Browser.
You can call, text and manage contacts from your phone.

You can communicate by using Nokia PC Phone with your friends and family even though they don’t have the Nokia PC Phone themselves. Your friends are not able to tell the difference whether you are using the Nokia PC Phone or not, because your calls and text messages are actually made from your own Nokia phone.

Now also available for IE 7 browser.

Installation instructions
Please go through the Nokia PC Phone installation instructions step by step. It is very easy and fast

Sounds like it could be quite handy, would be interested to hear about any security issues this may present before giving it ago if anyone has any?

It’s alive!!!!!

Well the Lexus G300 that I have had sat on the drive for 14 months is going to a new home with someone from the lexus owners club forum. He knows the score with it and I’ve tried to explain everything that’s wrong with it.

I get a message from him saying that he would like to pick it up saturday or maybe earlier and could I check the oil and try and start it up. After 14 months I thought no chance, it would be a case of brake ceased and won’t start . So, I charge the battey up for a few days then pop it back in - central locking works straight away so in I get, totally forgetting how nice it is inside, I put the key in the illuminated ignition and check it’s in park before trying to start it up. After a chug or two I gave it a little gas and voila, the thing kicked straight into life!!!!! So, hopefully it will be gone from the drive in a few days time and I can see if any long lasting effects will show themselves up on the drive beneath it.

Gotta love the engineering behind a lexus :)

Warwick Castle

On Monday to finish off my nice long weekend just before xmas, my mum, dad, Kate and I all headed down to Warwick castle for the afternoon, we’d already booked tickets as we wanted to see what the ice trail was like after being made to sound like an enchanted trail :)

For those of you that have never been before then go, it really is a lovely place but the entertainment they have on is really excellent, the staff they have dressed up walking around drumming up support do a damn good job about it and made the day all that much better - one of them even propositioned me :D

After spending an hour walking round to see some of the sites and have lunch, we ended up in the general direction of the ice trail so we headed on over in time for our slot at 2:15pm. The boots that were provided were the same ones as we used at the ice rink in Manchester, Piccadilly and proved to be comfortable enough although my legs were aching after it. The trail itself was a real change from the your usual square or rectangular shaped one, it had a square area where you started from and this is where the staff members ‘hung’ around. Gotta admit, even though they were stood round on the ice all day, they were still willing to help people out and even show them how to try and stop without crash landing in the barriers. From this ’square’ you then head around the trail in a semi circle until you near the centre, at this point you can then skate around a small round-a-bout type circle before heading for the finish/start and doing it all over again - if you wanted to :)

I’ve put some photos online at http://lathwood.co.uk/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=42

3E VPN/Remote desktop icon

Just a quick one this. I’ve just posted a quick how to add an icon to your desktop for remote vnc and remote desktop connections. Enjoy