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	<title>Technical Happenings &#187; technology</title>
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		<title>Is Social Networking really social?</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2010/05/11/is-social-networking-really-social/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 16:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few thoughts on social networking (mainly directed at Facebook). The Issues: Collecting friends becomes a habit The collection can become little more than an online status symbol If this happens are these people really your friends? You just opened up your world and made it &#8216; privacy invasive&#8217;, you&#8217;d likely never dream [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are Web Applications Superior to their Desktop counterparts?</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/12/15/why-are-web-applications-superior-to-there-desktop-counterparts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/12/15/why-are-web-applications-superior-to-there-desktop-counterparts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No need for an install or to ship updates The application lives in the cloud and is centrally managed, when you launch the application you will always have the latest version. This leads to a single point for updates and fixes with the user receiving the updated version the next time they use the application. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a QR Code?</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/12/10/what-is-a-qr-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/12/10/what-is-a-qr-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gadgets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A QR Code is a two-dimensional bar-code and the name &#8220;QR&#8221; is derived from &#8220;Quick Response&#8221;, as its Japanese creator intended the code  to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes have been very common in Japan, this popularity due to the fact that the majority of  Japanese mobiles can read this code with their camera. QR Codes can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Billion applications downloaded from 40 million Iphones</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/12/05/2-billion-downloaded-from-40-million-iphones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/12/05/2-billion-downloaded-from-40-million-iphones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markedgington.com/?p=606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While iPhone is only about 3% of the handset penetration it is responsible for a huge amounts of activity 1.3B Internet users 1.8B Fixed line telephones 2.9B Mobile Phones 4B Mobile users But out of  4B mobile users there are only 40M iPhones (inc about 20M iPod touch). Howver these 40M  have downloaded 2B apps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hash key on a mac keyboard osx</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/10/10/hash-key-on-a-mac-keyboard-osx/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/10/10/hash-key-on-a-mac-keyboard-osx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having trouble finding the hash key on your Mac keyboard? hold the Alt key down and then press the number 3.]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBerry QuickKeys and Shortcuts</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/09/25/blackberry-quickkeys-and-shortcuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/09/25/blackberry-quickkeys-and-shortcuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Day Quick Tips Alt+O = Outbox (sent items) Alt+I = Inbox (received items) Alt+U = Marks messages as read/unread Alt+P = Phone call log Alt+S = SMS messages Alt+V = Voicemail messages Alt+M = MMS messages. U &#8211; to cycle through unread messages Once inside the message and you need to: Reply, r. Forward, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to repair a VMWare Virtual Disk on OSX</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/09/09/how-to-repair-a-vmware-virtual-disk-on-os/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/09/09/how-to-repair-a-vmware-virtual-disk-on-os/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your having an issue with your virtual disk it is worth trying the following: Open a Terminal window /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -R /Users/(USERNAME_HERE or Directory where VM installed)/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows\ Vista.vmwarevm/Windows\ Vista.vmdk If this fails with a message like &#8216;FILE: FileIO_Lock on &#8216;/Users/Shared/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows Vista.vmwarevm/Windows Vista.vmdk&#8217; failed: Lock timed out&#8217; then: cd /Users/(USERNAME_HERE or Directory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Touch Pro2 &#8211;  The Bad Points</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/07/17/htc-pro-2-the-bad-points/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/07/17/htc-pro-2-the-bad-points/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gadgets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markedgington.com/?p=570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought I&#8217;d highlight the bad points of an otherwise excellent device. no D-Pad Serious lack of buttons you can&#8217;t customise the buttons Web browsing isn&#8217;t as good as IPhone No voice dialing software bundled. The HTC Touch Flo interface is really nice, but gets in the way of my email. The memory card is located [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mino HD Review</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/05/12/mino-hd-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/05/12/mino-hd-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my Flip Mino HD at the end of March and have been playing with it for a little over a month. I recently took it on holiday and found it a perfect extension to my SLR when I did not have the video camera around; I found it a real moment device, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cookie Sniffing and Trading</title>
		<link>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/05/07/cookie-sniffing-and-trading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markedgington.com/2009/05/07/cookie-sniffing-and-trading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 10:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markedgington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does that mean? There are networks of  companies  who create cookies on your machine and use these to track  your behaviour  across multiple websites.                         And in English? You will see ad  based content on one site based on  your activity on another and you won&#8217;t even  know it  happened.                         Who invented   it? [...]]]></description>
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