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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;...
Recent Trackbackage
- 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: mobile
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Oct 11
Oct 11
At The Airport, Not All QR Codes Are Created Equal
Another day, another flight, another addition to the ever growing and increasingly arcane number of steps that you need to go through in order to get through an airport and actually take off on a plane. I’ve written before on … Continue reading
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Tagged ba, berlin, boardingpass, britishairways, california, campbell, geotagged, heathrow, london, mobile, security, tegel
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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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Aug 11
Aug 11
Almost Losing Sight Of The Magic Of (Mobile) Maps
Often maligned and ignored, sometimes science fiction writers are bang on the mark. The cognoscenti of the high brow literary world often dismiss science fiction as being not proper writing or even worthy of the label of literature. But sci-fi … Continue reading
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Feb 11
Feb 11
Talking About A Sense Of Place
As a precursor to last week’s mashup* Digital Trends event, I chatted to Paul Squires of Imperica about my location trends in more detail than the mashup* format would have allowed for. The write-up from that interview is now up … Continue reading
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Nov 10
Nov 10
The BA Mobile Boarding Pass; So Right And Yet So Wrong
While boarding passes on your mobile handset have been around for a while in one form or another, I only came across them just over a year ago while flying on KLM from Amsterdam’s Schipol airport. The system was quick, … Continue reading
