http://mthomas.co.uk News, Reviews, TipsNTricks and Tutorials from the world of IT Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:04:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought I'd give my iPhone battery a bit of a charge, so I plugged it into my PC (I'm at work) and saw the following... "Great" I thought "it recognises it". However, my world soon fell apart as this message appeared: Although this has happened to me in the past with ... http://mthomas.co.uk/charging-my-iphone/ Manchester may be the home of The Premiership and European Champions and also 2 Apple Stores, but today we travelled 35 miles down the M62 to be present at the opening of the Apple Store in Liverpool. Leaving the house at 6:45, we had a clear run down the motorway. Whilst ... http://mthomas.co.uk/opening-of-the-apple-store-liverpool/ Liverpool may have won more European Cups than Man United but we have 2 Apples Stores... Thanks to Elaine for mocking up this photo of my Liverpool One Apple Store T-shirt http://mthomas.co.uk/liverpool-1-manchester-2/ Just installed Wordpress for iPhone and testing it - so if you're seeing this post it must be working! installed Twitterific on the iPhone too. Great when it works but.... [caption id="attachment_92" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Twitterific Failure"][/caption] http://mthomas.co.uk/blogging-from-my-iphone/ Are you frustrated by the amount of time it takes to export video to the H.264 format? Are you unable to use your Mac for other purposes while you are converting videos to the H.264 format? Then why not do as I did and treat yourself to an Elgato Turbo ... http://mthomas.co.uk/elgato-turbo-h264/ Following on from my previous post I "successfully" upgraded 3 of our WordPress blogs (well I say successfully compared to my experience with upgrading MacBites) I don't think that Siteground's control panel likes to play nicely with Safari. On a number of occasions, I have received an error: “Operation could not ... http://mthomas.co.uk/wordpress-26-more-misery/ Tonight, Elaine spotted Typepad (an app that enables you to create blog posts right from your iPhone) and asked me if I'd come across anything similar for WordPress - our blogs are WordPress-based. A Google search came up with this - http://iphone.wordpress.net. Logging into the Control panel at Siteground (our hosting ... http://mthomas.co.uk/wordpress-26-nightmare-upgrade/ Last week Elaine and I took the plunge and bought ourselves a 3G iPhone each (16GB white). You can read the full story of our 6 hour wait on Elaine's blog. So am I impressed? You bet I am! I've never been one for computer games but I'm addicted to Super ... http://mthomas.co.uk/iphone-iphone-iphone/ This morning one of my colleagues asked what time it was in a certain part of the world. I typed the name of the place followed by "Current Time" into the Google search box. Google responded by displaying the current time for that location above it's normal results list. Then another ... http://mthomas.co.uk/google-more-than-a-search-engine/ But having to use Windows (at work anyway) gives me a good excuse Today I was adding some new functionality to an Excel file. The file is stored on our network and when I came to save it, I got a message box saying "File not saved". We had earlier experienced ... http://mthomas.co.uk/i-must-stop-ranting/