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Year: 2012

Overheard: Unappreciated social

Posted on 10 December 201211 December 2012

Last week I was at a conference with a large number of national and international businesses. Following some breakout sessions I was standing behind three delegates from Phones […]

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I am Tom Steel

Posted on 1 November 20122 November 2012

I’ve recently built a new “home” page to link my online appearences together – this blog, my photo site, LinkedIn profile and twitter account. You can find it at […]

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Silver mist shout out #MASO

Posted on 27 October 201227 October 2012

Here is a clip from Friday 26 October’s 6 Music breakfast show where Shaun Keavney reads out some middle aged shout outs. This one is for a trip to Horsham Market to […]

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There are no “regular results” on Google anymore.

Posted on 17 October 201211 December 2012

Google search results are always customised to some extent, a study by competing search engine ducksuckgo has reported. The study involved 131 volunteers conducting the same search from around the […]

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Pretend to be a pigeon and Smart Suitcases.

Posted on 16 October 201216 October 2012

Here’s two unrelated pieces of technology which caught my eye today.

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Posted in From the internet, OddTagged bluetooth, flying, google earth, London, pigeon, smartphone, suitcaseLeave a Comment on Pretend to be a pigeon and Smart Suitcases.

Tour of Britain 2012

Posted on 17 September 201217 September 2012

The Olympics and Paralympics may have ended a few weeks ago, but that didn’t stop some world class sport from touring the country. The Tour of Britain ended […]

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A bit of blurb about photobooks

Posted on 12 September 201213 September 2012

I was approached recently to review a book printing service by Blurb. I don’t normally write reviews on this blog, but when they offered to pay for me […]

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Now using web fonts

Posted on 10 September 201213 September 2012

I  wish I’d tried using web fonts ages ago. I’ve just changed the site to use Rock Salt for the header and Open Sans for the rest of […]

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Alphabet flash cards

Posted on 5 September 20125 September 2012

I want to create an inspiring bedroom for my new daughter, and while at Whitechaple art gallery a few weeks ago I saw some nice looking alphabet flash […]

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Apple, patents and ideas

Posted on 30 August 201211 December 2012

There’s been a lot of commentary about Samsung’s $1b bill for infringing Apple’s patents, and I’ve found the whole case rather depressing – the patent system seems to […]

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