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Husband, Father, coffee addict, Scifi and Electronica fan, UNIX and Mac user and in my day job I'm Director of the Places Registry for Nokia.-
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- Steve Krause on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Love the Plugin Gary! Using it at my site –...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: A quick question on plugins for author images vs. avatars. I think...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, Looks like you’re using the TwentyEleven theme; this...
- Rory on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: hi Gary, one further question … how can i get rid of the...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, The contact details need to be added to your user profile;...
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- John’s Weblog on The Non Golden Rules of Geo: Gary Gale has reproduced the original blog entry here. Categories: Semantic...
- edparsons.com on A smartphone without location is just not smart !: Gary at www.vicchi.org and Peter at geothought.blogspot.com offer a more nuanced...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Adding Windows Phone 7 Support To WordPress...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, buybestultd,...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Putting The Tube On The Grid; A Geeked Out...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, Karen Leech. Karen...
- de.straba.us on WhereCamp EU 2011 – The Geo Unconference For Europe: Gale, con il post “Ich Bin Geograph” – WhereCamp EU Is Coming To...
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This is my personal blog not a corporate one; see the whole disclaimer here.Taggage
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- Snowing. Definitely Snowing. http://t.co/dd4sS1vX about 4 hours ago from Instagram
- It's #uksnow time again. A light dusting in Teddington but it's still coming down. about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck
- Oh no! Empty! http://t.co/FZL2j6Te 12:35:14 PM February 02, 2012 from Instagram
- New Bloggage: Two Website Outages; One Important, One Trivial - http://t.co/tM69K0uZ 05:41:27 AM February 01, 2012 from web
- @chillly 5+ WordPress blogs, email on same number of domains, PHP, MySQL, shell access, FTP access, Apache. Nothing too special. 12:14:26 PM January 28, 2012 from web in reply to chillly
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Tag Archives: iphone
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Nov 11
Nov 11
Smart Phone. Clumsy User
I have learnt four things over the past year or so. One. The iPhone 3′s glass was scratch resistant but not dropping-onto-a-stone-floor resistant. Two. I am clumsy. Three. The iPhone 4′s glass was scratch resistant but not dropping-onto-a-pavement resistant. Four. … Continue reading
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Sep 11
Sep 11
Farewell Ovi Maps, Hello Nokia Maps (On iOS And Android Too)
In May of this year, Nokia announced the retirement of the Ovi brand and the observant map watchers amongst you may have noticed that pointing your browser of choice at maps.ovi.com now automagically redirects you to the new, shiny maps.nokia.com. … Continue reading
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Apr 11
Apr 11
iOS Location Caching Round-up – Conspiracy Theories: 0, Smart Location Caching: 1
More a meta post, or what Kuro5hin would have called MLP (meaningless link propagation), this post started out as a comment to one of my previous posts on the iOS location caching controversy but soon expanded way beyond a comment … Continue reading
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Apr 11
Apr 11
Location’s “Ick Factor”; First iOS And Now Android
Two days ago I wrote about the “discovery” of a cache file on iOS devices that stores the position of cell towers and the associated media coverage surrounding this. Note that I use “discovery” in inverted commas here. As Sally … Continue reading
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Tagged caching, geotagged, ios, iphone, location, london, privacy, smartphone
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Apr 11
Apr 11
iOS Location “Tracking”; Gross Invasion Of Privacy Or Media Sensationalism?
Oh dear. For a few years now I’ve been talking about how the privacy aspect of today’s location technologies is something that may just catapult location into the mainstream, and possibly tabloid, media and probably for the wrong reasons. I … Continue reading
