Smartlife

Making your way around some of the more popular technology blogs on the Internet, you’ll find there is no shortage of coverage when it comes to different apps available for the Apple iPhone. The BlackBerry crew gets their fair share of attention too, so where does that leave all the Nokia owners in the audience? The Symbian OS may not be as sexy or “out there” as some of its competitors, but that doesn’t mean that Nokia smartphones should be left out in the cold either.

As a proud owner…

Google has greatly expanded beyond its core search engine to offer a wide range of free online services. Easily one of the most popular of these is Gmail, the ubiquitous web-based email client that comes with loads of storage and the ability to handle multiple email accounts.

As powerful as Gmail may be on its own, the “crazy experimental stuff” being doctored up through Gmail Labs can greatly expand on this functionality and help to improve your productivity. This applies not only to the work setting, but also when it…

The very first message on the Internet was “Lo.” The second was a list of 10,000 lawyer jokes. The first was an attempt to “Login” to a system that would help mankind be more productive than ever before. The second was the opposite, and consisted of jokes that would be booed off the stage at a Christmas cracker convention MC’ed by Carlos Mencia. You know that because you got it, too: it’s circled the Earth enough times to reverse the planet’s rotation, had more forwards than the entire NBA, and even now no-one has ever actually read the whole thing.