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blogging on the move: redux

Richard’s little mobile blogging app is nice, but he isn’t that responsive to user requests (ie, mine!) so I thought I would see if anything else was out there. Sadly, the answer appears to be ’not really’ However, I did come across Diarist, from Kevin Daly. Perhaps not surprisingly I am using it now. I must say that two thumb typing on the diamond keyboard is not bad, although nowhere near as fast as the real keyboard on the tytn.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Saturday, July 12, 2008

My Orange Diamond is... err... black

That might sound like a strange thing to say, but when my shiny new Touch Diamond, which I picked up from Orange this week, has no Orange branding or customisation of the UI. I hadn’t really noticed that until I went into the manual, where the screenshots are totally different from my phone. I was beginning to wonder if something had gone wrong with the setup process, when I saw this thread at XDA-Developers.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Saturday, July 12, 2008

HTC Touch Diamond on Orange

Thanks to the advanced notice from Tracy and Matt’s blog, I picked up my HTC Touch Diamond yesterday from the Orange Store and it’s great! ‘But wait!’ I hear you cry, ‘didn’t he go on about the experia x1 and how he wanted one?’ Well, yes, I did. I admit it - I am fickle in my affections.Since I wrote that post, I have spent time considering what I want in a phone and size has become a significant factor.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Friday, July 11, 2008

Catching Up

I’ve been far too busy lately and whilst there have been lots of things I wanted to post about, time has not been on my side. Before I start to forget some of the points I thought a quick post was in order. @media 2008 was great. Slides and audio are just filtering onto the blog now. A highlight for me was Indi Young’s talk on Mental Models. I now have her book on my desk (waiting for having the time to read it) and I’m excited about how the technique might interface nicely with the User Stories we use for feeding requirements into our Scrum development process.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Friday, June 13, 2008

Blogging On The Move

We try to dogfood here at Black Marble so I’m writing this on my HTC TYTN. How? With Richard’s new app

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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Rik is Chief Consulting Officer at Black Marble, a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award and a Microsoft Regional Director. He is an organiser of the DDD and DDD North UK community events and a member of the admin team for the Global Azure worldwide community event.

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