Life after Posterous – a search for a new blog tool

Life after Posterous - a search for a new blog tool

Twitter has acquired Posterous – hooray! I’m happy for the Posterous team, they made a great product and are now moving onto greater things. Posterous users might rejoice at the thought that Twitter will be enhancing the service, but the recent demise of Gowalla from the Facebook acquisition has left users wondering if Posterous will [...]

Powermonkey eXtreme – Mobile Power Review

Powermonkey eXtreme - Mobile Power Review

When I first saw the Powermonkey eXtreme listed in the ‘coming soon‘ section of the Powertraveller website I got a little excited. I had previously seen they had a larger battery called the Startmonkey200 and thought this could be a backup power consideration for campers but I somehow thought they must be developing a dedicated [...]

Brewing Beer at Nutbrook Brewery

Brewing Beer at Nutbrook Brewery

Once upon a time I bought a selection of local beers and made some Stout Cakes with a stout called ‘Midnight’ by Nutbrook Brewery. As per the usual, I blogged about it and took a couple of snaps. The guys at Nutbrook Brewery in West Hallam, Derbyshire got in touch to say that they loved the [...]

UK Cookie Law

Last year a new privacy law came into effect in the EU that requires website owners to get permission BEFORE they plant web cookies (or any technology for storing information) on a visitors machine. This has MASSIVE implications for not only businesses but for bloggers and personal website owners too as the Information Commissioner’s Office [...]

Posting to WordPress via email

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I’m just testing the email to WordPress posting functionality using a plugin called Postie. I have set Postie to check my email account using POP3 and to post any emails that are sent from a specific address. To mimic some of the Posterous functions this post will automatically get tweeted by using the Feedburner tweet [...]

How to get seen as an Author in Google

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  Google are taking it social and you might wonder why some search results are now showing the author of the result and others are not (this is different to the “Richard Mackney shared this” that you might see if you follow me). In the above example Edgar Cervantes is clearly attributed with writing the [...]

Kedleston Hall

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Kedleston Hall is an absolute gem and living 10 minutes away means we can enjoy a stroll around the grounds regularly. Being a National Trust property means it doesn’t cost us anything extra to get in (as members) and on a day with a blue sky the hall and landscape just look stunning. Sent from [...]

A walk around Chatsworth

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Today we went for a walk around the Chatsworth Estate and I managed to take a few shots with my SLR. I’ve loaded them onto the iPad for a quick edit and am now using the Blogsy app to send them to WordPress (more about that later). The header image was uploaded direct from the [...]

Ding, Ding, All Change

Ding, Ding, All Change

The last change was 8 Otober 2009 when I moved completely over to Posterous. Sent from my iPad

iPhoneography January 2012

iPhoneography January 2012

Here is my selection of iPhone images from January. As you may notice from recent posts I’ve been using my SLR and iPad to edit recently so the latest selection is dwindling slightly (is this a bad thing?).