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eBay – the greatest shop in the world.

When I was a child there were high-street stores that sold the myriad of knickknacks that make and personalise a home. Now, years later, many of those stores have been driven out by large franchises and out of town retail parks. Those new superstores carrying the most profitable and popular lines of items, with rarely bought items not stocked.

At the same time global communications and transport and an entrepreneurial spirit have meant more innovations and variations of item being manufacturers around the world.

eBay may have a reputation for a place to buy and sell second-hand goods, but it is also gloriously full of entrepreneurs around the globe eager to sell their products. if you can visualise the thing you need, it is likely you will find it on eBay, pay for it with PayPal and be able to have it delivered to your door in the next week. What’s more in many cases you can find items cheaper than you might at a high-street store. Granted there are fakes and frauds, just as one might find at a town market, but these become easy to recognise with experience.

I believe that eBay is the greatest shop in the world.

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What your email address says about your computer skills – The Oatmeal

What your email address says about your computer skills – The Oatmeal.

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AppBrain – 3rd party desktop WEB ui for the android app market.

AppBrain is a 3rd party website / app combination that tries to enhance the android AppMarket experience.

Pros

  • lets the user queue up installations / uninstalls from a great web interface
  • lets you browse the market from a desktop browser with all the goodies that means, multiple tabs, proper keyboard, copy paste etc.

Cons

  • still requires clicking multiple items and confirmation dialogs on device ( android 1.6 ) for each application install
  • still requires manual upgrade for items ( android 1.6 )

I suspect that with 2.2 the cons might go away, but even on 1.6 this is a good improvement over using the standard device only market interface.

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Cool Pacman Android eating apples t-shirt

http://www.cafepress.com/thmeremp.462786494#

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ebay – the best gadget shop in the world

Recently I had to try and recover files from a pc that had a faulty CPU/motherboard combo.  Initially I was planning on opening another system and swapping the drive. But then I got to thinking wouldn’t it be great if there was a cable to connect an IDE device to a USB plug. I looked on ebay and found such a gadget existed, ordered and delivered for under £10 and all files safely recovered.

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The devolution of a piece of string to iPhone 4.0 by Hot4Words

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5-H1NcxExo&feature=digest

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App Inventor for Android

App Inventor for Android. reminds me of HyperCard, VisualBasic and of course LegoMindStorms.

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Live map of London Underground trains

cool – Live map of London Underground trains.

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WordPress 3.0 – Excellent

http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

  • A plugin for almost everything you might want
  • An open community to help you do the rest
  • A library of themes to make it personal.
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Favourite Websites

  1. http://google.co.uk
  2. http://bbc.co.uk
  3. http://evernote.com
  4. http://icanhascheezburger.com (lolcats)
  5. http://tv.com
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