Aug
My first ever domain name gregriley.net is 10 years old today. I registered it mainly for a decent email address, back in 2000. At the time I did not really know how to make a web site, (I probably still don’t), over the years it has seen many attempts at being a personal homepage type thing. I even used it as a WAP style page for access from my first smartphone the Nokia 7110. In 2009 I discovered tumblr and liked it so I redirected my domain to tumblr for the site you see today.

My first ever domain name gregriley.net is 10 years old today. I registered it mainly for a decent email address, back in 2000. At the time I did not really know how to make a web site, (I probably still don’t), over the years it has seen many attempts at being a personal homepage type thing. I even used it as a WAP style page for access from my first smartphone the Nokia 7110. In 2009 I discovered tumblr and liked it so I redirected my domain to tumblr for the site you see today.

Jul
Jun

I have set up a Flickr account

I have set up a Flickr account for storing images on that I might want to publish to a Tumblr non-photo post using MarsEdit, like this:

perspective

I have previously achieved this by hosting any images I wanted to use with my domain host, by using FTP and then hand coding the links to them within the post. Using flickr is much quicker and simpler both to upload images and to use them in the posts, because MarsEdit allows for linking to a flickr account which enables drag and drop of the images into posts.

This solution is not ideal as I would have prefered either the facility to set up an external upload location for images when configuring a tumblr type weblog. Or the ability to connect to my MobileMe photo gallery from within MarsEdit.

Jun

How do you Google for iPhone 3GS ? (part 2)

Just a short update to my earlier post How do you Google for iPhone 3G S?This post from theAppleBlog clears the matter up slightly, at least it should when searching for information from official sources.

Jun
Jun

How do you Google for iPhone 3G S ?

When I search for iPhone 3G S I am referring to the new iPhone 3G S due to be launched on the 19th June 2009, the one where the “S” stands for speed not plural. With the previous model released last year called iPhone 3G the internet is littered with references to iPhone 3Gs. Google does not differentiate between searches with lowercase and capital letters, so searching 3Gs or 3GS does not make any difference. So should I put a space between the 3G and the S? Well the results do differ slightly between 3GS and 3G S, but not in any usable way as it seems no one else is really sure whether there should be a space between the 3G and the S when referring to the latest model.

So is this an oversight by Apple in the naming of their new product, that will result in customers having great difficulty in finding information about their exact model of iPhone. Or is it a stroke of genius as the internet is already full of references and has been for a year, to their new product that was only publicly named last week?

If this is the case, with internet references now appearing to iPhone 3G S’s is the next model of iphone to be called the iPhone 3G SS, speed and style maybe?

May

Konami Code Here

I heard from the site point podcast about a fun feature appearing in some websites called Konami Code some of the sites that include this can be found at konamisites.com you will need the code to get in of course.

Intrigued by this idea I decided to see if I could add konami code to this site and with a Google search I found this example which I have added to this site, so give it a go.

May

The viral word that is a number

I found this great viral thing 241543903 googling this number will produce lots more about it. This is a great example of a virord even though it is numerical.

May