Tom Goskar

Freelance consultant for digital heritage

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  • New Gong album “2032” coming soon

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    Pioneering psychedelic space rockers Gong, who have been making music for well over 40 years, are soon to release a new album, entitled “2032”. This track, “How to Stay Alive”, along with its outstanding video, is a taster of what is to come when the album is released on 21 September 2009. From what I…

  • Stonehenge at the Summer Solstice 2009

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    It’s just over a month since the summer solstice, and, if you have never spent the night at Stonehenge with 35,000 other people, this short film should hopefully give you a hint of the sights, sounds and atmosphere. The film starts in the evening as the sun sets, through to partying in the dark of…

  • Shared Items in Google Reader

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    I’m just getting into the idea of using the “shared items” feature of Google Reader (Google’s online RSS reader). I’ve been a heavy user of Google Reader right from the start, after using NetNewsWire (which is great) but wanting to read my feeds on a variety of devices (not just my Mac). Google Reader has,…

  • “To Do” managers on Symbian S60 – where are they?

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    iPhone users seem to have it all (except battery life) these days. There’s a slew of ToDo managers available for it, with beautifully designed interfaces, and crucially, for me at least, those that sync with online services such as ToodleDo or Remember the Milk. // // Folks have been asking Remember the Milk developers for…

  • The fabled Google OS

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    Well, it had to happen eventually. Google have just announced their latest project: Google Chrome OS. You can’t download it just yet, but we can expect to see products (initially netbooks) running it next year: Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year…

  • Sample photos taken with an LG KC910 Renoir

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    In the last few days I’ve taken a lot of photos with my new LG KC910 “Renoir”, and I’m quite taken with the camera. Here’s a slideshow of photos taken with the phone – this will update automatically via Flickr: I’ll do some more movie recording soon, and post  samples here.

  • The LG KC910 “Renoir”

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    Recently, my contract with 3 UK came up for renewal. Since I’m a frequent Skype user, I decided to stay with them and sign up for another 18 months. Despite loving my Nokia E71, a number of phones were offered to me free with my new contract. I plumped for the LG KC910 “Renoir” purely…

  • De-branding my 3UK Nokia E71

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    I bought my E71 last year from 3 UK (as a PAYG handset) to replace the first-generation 3Skypephone that I had grown to hate with a passion. The E71 has been such a wonderful improvement over the Skypephone in just about every way possible. But it hasn’t been without its faults. The camera shutter can…

  • Why I’m creating my own URL shortening service

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    I’ve long been concerned about the proliferation of “short URLs”, whose use has gathered great momentum, especially in the light of microblogging services like Twitter. Short URLs, such as those generated by TinyURL are convenient, especially when you only have 140 characters to get your message across. You can turn a huge URL, many hundreds…

  • Native Symbian S60 Twitter Clients

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    A quick post to mention that a few native Symbian S60 Twitter clients are under development. I haven’t installed or tried any of these, but when I have the time, I’ll post my feedback here. Gravity Gravity will be a commercial product, developed by mobileways, who already offer native S60 Twitter functionality within their WirelessIRC…