This tip assumes you’ve installed the Lighttpd web server and can SSH into your iPad. By default the location of Lighttpd’s www folder is /private/var/www. You need to add an alias to this folder into either Textastic‘s or Koder‘s documents folder. The apps are usually located somewhere like this: /private/var/mobile/Applications/XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX, [...]

My inner geek found this amusing.

Seeing as how O2′s network seems to be made up largely of pieces of string and paper cups, I decided to look into T-mobile’s PAYG offerings. I sent off for a free SIM with the idea of checking I get reception in my frequently visited places. Once–or if–I was happy I’d then port my number across.

As I already have a mobile broadband account with T-Mobile I didn’t see the need for me to spend £100 more on a 3G enabled iPad. I really object to this growing trend of expecting people to pay multiple times for stuff they already own, be it an ebook, music [...]

Every so often I have a sneaky look at the latest ebook hardware in the hopes of seeing something that will fit my needs. I want to read mostly technical, text booky-type PDFs. So far only the Sony Reader Touch PRS-600 comes close. It handles PDFs and allows annotation. As [...]

A PHP script to check Googlemail and push a notification to an iPhone.

My account of how I installed OS X onto a Dell Mini 9.

Right, been trying this Stephen Fry L competition thing on Twitter but I’m not having much success. My mind wandered and I ended up writing this little helper form. It counts up all of the L’s so you don’t have to.

A little shell script to send a Twitter update with wget.

A step by step guide on how to install a webserver with Perl on an iPhone or iPod Touch.