Darren’s Blog

For those that are not aware, Guiness Surger is the ultimate Guiness gadget.  It allows you to get an almost perfect pint of Guiness in the comfort of you own home.  When it was originally released the Surger cans were distributed soley through Tesco’s Extra stores, now it would appear that they no longer do them.

Am I just unlucky or has Surger finally died a death?

For those that haven’t seen it in action here’s a video I posted to YouTube a while ago.

I’m definitely not the first to blog this and certainly won’t be that last, last week saw freelance web develop Jason Roe get into a row with staff from Ryanair when he blogged about a bug in their web site.

The thing is when I was reading this comment:

Ryanair Staff #1 Says: 
February 19th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

jason!
you?re an idiot and a liar!! fact is!
you?ve opened one session then another and requested a page meant for a different session, you are so stupid you dont even know how you did it! you dont get a free flight, there is no dynamic data to render which is prob why you got 0.00. what self respecting developer uses a crappy CMS such as word press anyway AND puts they?re mobile ph number online, i suppose even a prank call is better than nothing on a lonely sat evening!!

All I could hear in my head we the voice of Roy from The IT Crowd ranting away.

Anyway it’s a great article that really brightened up my day yesterday, thanks to @veloce for the article RT.

Yesterday Google released Google Mobile App for the iPhone an application that provides a central point to launch all your Google applications from, it also features a search facility that is location aware and boasts voice recognition.

TechCrunch featured an article First Look At Google Mobile App For iPhone: Great But Not Second Coming which examples the applicaiton features and compares it’s results to those shown my google in their demonstration video.

I this article I’m going to look at how well the application performed when I tried some basic searches in the office this morning. Continue reading »

Let’s see if my status get’s updated

So there I was looking at not only my first post but the first posdt from my iPhone when I started to pay attention to the images I had posted.  When I posted it I took it to be just a standard picure of the iPhone screen assuming it came pre-installed, but the layout looked oddly familiar… hold on that’s my iPhone!  How the hell did I manage that?

A quick it to Google lead me to an article on On a Mac: Taking iPhone screenshots which revealed that it’s one of the funky new features that came with the 2.0 firmware.  I showed it to a guy a work and we wondered if it would work on the iTouch with the 2.0 firmware, OK it doesn’t have a camera but WTF let’s try it, and it does indeed work.

I can’t see me wanting to make huge post using the iPhone but let’s see if it works.