Chris' notes » Random Thoughts http://www.chrismaddern.com Chris Maddern's personal blog on the the web, development, entrepreneurship and life in general Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:52:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Support Education, and my Face. All in one! http://www.chrismaddern.com/support-education-and-my-face-all-in-one/ http://www.chrismaddern.com/support-education-and-my-face-all-in-one/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:19:57 +0000 Chris http://www.chrismaddern.com/?p=944

How often do you get an opportunity to support both children’s education, and the upper lip of a man, all in one fell swoop…!?

I know what you’re thinking… it’s not that!

The past 20 days, I have been growing a mustache to raise money for kid’s schools… I’ve raised $448 so far and was hoping that any of you reading this may like to donate to a good cause!

I’m raising money using Donor’s Choice – an online tool to help people choose which projects their charity money goes to. Check out my page and support the cause at Chris Maddern’s Mustache in a Fancy Border.

Cheers!

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Check it out over at The Chelsea Scene

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facebook video calling features

  • When you open the chat box, you can see a video button . Click on it and start a video chat instantly with your friends and family members :)
  • Now you finally activated the facebook video calling features in your facebook profile

Thanks to SoftwareBuzzer

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Is this car stolen? created by the folks over at Car Check Reviews

]]> http://www.chrismaddern.com/is-this-car-stolen/feed/ 0 The Chelsea Scene – Bars, Clubs and Restaurants from Made in Chelsea http://www.chrismaddern.com/the-chelsea-scene-bars-clubs-and-restaurants-from-made-in-chelsea/ http://www.chrismaddern.com/the-chelsea-scene-bars-clubs-and-restaurants-from-made-in-chelsea/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:49:55 +0000 Chris http://www.blogitech.co.uk/?p=665

The Chelsea Scene profiles all of the clubs, bars, restaurants and cafes that are shown in the E4 show ‘Made in Chelsea’.

They’ve got good coverage and reviews… from the obvious ones like Boujis and Raffles to some more obscure ones like the fabulous Janet’s Bar.

http://www.thechelseascene.com/

Now if only they organised them by episode…!

 

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It’s going to host Windows 7 integrated theme packs; a feature in Windows 7 that I really like!

It’s very early stages now, but over the coming days and weeks it should approach completion so… bookmark it!

Thanks a lot; I’ve got a lot of iPhone dev stuff going on as well, I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has experience in developping iPhone applications.

Speak soon,

Chris

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How to find your UDID Article:  7000 hits

Windows 7 Code Branching :  4000 hits

Access iPhone 3.0 Beta: 10,000 hits

Obviously… I’ve rounded those figures off!!

Thanks guys… hope it’s useful!! I have a couple new projects that I’ll be linking off to / blogging about in the coming months once my dissertation is in!! I look forward to chatting with you all about it!

Chris

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I suppose I’ve been living in the past for the last year with only one moniter on my desk but now, having two… I can see why people say that two is the way forward. The only problem is I don’t know how I’m going to go about not buying a third!

It’s so much easier to do two things at once; the ability to watch an episode of a TV show, or chat on IM while working on the other screen is invaluable (saves switching) and if you’re copying data from program-to-program etc… it speeds things up no end!

In synopsis; if there’s currently one moniter on your desk; get to dell.com and buy another while I take a picture to update the blog header! :)

Chris

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“…a Zillion is 1 followed by a Katrillion zeros…”

I thought that was funny!

On an unrelated note, I got my iPhone today :). Oh god is it good… loads more soon, check out my twitter and flickr for more regular posts… more iPhone-native :)
Chris

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DELL have a sale on monitors here in the UK and so I’m very tempted to go ahead and take advantage of this :).

Here’s the problem… I’m not sure whether to go for dual monitors, or one big one. I have a 22″ DELL at the moment, so it’s either get another 22″ and have duals, or get the 27″ and sell the 22″ (at least partially because different sized screens can look a little stupid beside one-another, but mainly because being a student…).

So.. anybody have any opinions? I suppose it’s mostly coding / writing that I’ll be doing…

Let me know!

Chris

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