I thought I would write a little review for the iPod dock/alarm clock I got for Christmas, hope this helps!
The Goodmans GCR1872 iPod Dock Alarm clock is a small stylish device which which has 2 handy alarm timings, includes a FM radio and also Aux input and output.
The alarm clock function allows for 3 types – iPod (plays iPod), Buzzer and FM Radio and the display panel also includes many brightness levels.
The sound quality is pretty good considering it only has 2 x 3W small speakers.
While I liked the Goodmans GCR1872 iPod Dock Alarm Clock I recently had to return it because the iPod connector came away from the main circuit board.
A lot of the problem I found with this product us the iPod Tocuh (Gen 1) didn’t properly clip into the mount, so I either had to not use a mount of have the iPod Touch mount improperly fitted, which probably lead to extra strain on the dock connector.
Unfortunately because this cost me £39.99 and it broke in less than 2 months, I have to recommend you avoid this product as it seems like it is poorly built in places and is not long lasting with long term use… which is a shame for such a nice compact little gadget.
I am finding it rather amusing how a it seems a group of webhosts which claim that they are not the same all have the same support staff and funnily just had a convo where they quoted an email for the other company…
Chat Transcript
info: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
info: You are now chatting with ‘Russell’
Russell: Hello and Welcome to Live Chat Support.
Russell: How may I assist you today ?
Dan: can i get the root pass on my VPS reset?
Russell: Please send mail to vps@ANOTHERWEBHOST.com from your registered email address
Russell: we will reply your email with new password
Dan: Haha, nice slip up.. ok.
Russell: ok
Russell: for security reason you must have to send mail to reset your VPS password
Dan: No probs, although probs best I email THEWEBHOST right :p xD
Russell: ok
Russell: bye
Dan: ok.
Just posting a few basic bits of info about how the TwitterBot Service is currently running.
So the twitter bot is currently requesting the last 20 tweets fron the public timeline every minute (on a every minute cron) meaning at the moment the public timeline requests come out of the main server IP and are falling far below the 100/hr limit. However currently looking into ideas on how to increase the rate to catch more tweets! (Ideas welcome, please leave a comment or email me).
The tweets which get catched by the tweet grabber bot are saved into a database to be processed, I then have another bot “ProcessingBot” (I am immaginative with my script names i know) runs every 5 minutes and loops through each unprocessed tweet, and each bot in the system checking for matches to 3 phrases stored in the DB (I will be changing this part to make it more flexiable ASAP) and if it matches the tweet gets retweeted to the bot account in the format of (@SCREEN_NAME) TWEET as you can see on @JacksonBot which is currently retweeting tweets with the key phrases of “Jackson” “MJ” and “Micheal Jackson” and seems to be working very well (currently 500+ tweets in 12 hours and 32 followers – Yes I am hoping this doesnt hit the post limit and have applied for whitelisting).
Wow i finally pulled my finger out and have been working hard today starting work on a twitter bot service, now so far i have some of the core done, and infact now have 3 bots running @jacksonbot which unsuprisingly (should) pick up tweets about Micheal Jackson, the second is a Note to self bot… appropriately named @NoteToSelfBot and then the 3rd bot i have going is the @IsDeadBot which while slightly morbit picks up tweets for things realted to erm dead things.
Now i will be working very hard on this system to get it all working nicely and there maybe bugs in the output (please email me if you spot any!) , and eventually i will be developing this into a full service which should enable users to simply signup and have their very own twitter bot!
I honestly can’t wait to get this going so see you tomorrow and will try and keep you all posted.
Okay so i stumbled across this video the other day on YouTube and i just loved it, it seems this video is the one on YouTube which is the proper music video and i just think its brilliant and funny to watch the puppet! I seem to love everything Lily Allen & Katy Perry are putting out, so keep up the good work girls
Go on! Buy it on Amazon. I get 5% … of 69p Anyone who wants to buy it 1000 times go ahead. =]
Sitting on bus now on the way home from a long and rather awkward day.
It didn’t start well really went to bed around 1am admittedly too late to begin with as needed to be in college at 9 and takes around 50 minutes to get there, do I gradually drift off into a peaceful sleep? Do I hell. Instead I was tossing and turning totally unable to get to sleep. must have been gone 3.30 by the time I got to sleep and then got woken by alarm on iPod… And fall back asleep to wake up at 8.20! not a good start to a day.
The bus jerk:
I noticed something which seems to be common to everyone when travelling by bus. What I am talking about is what i have dubbed “the bus jerk” when someone is standing on a bus and the bus moves and they lerk forward almost falling on their as face and then you have that short period after someone does something embarrassing when they attempt to compose themselves and their heads quickly look around hoping no one saw them blunder. I find it strange how everyone around them knows they saw them trip, blunder and fall, they know we all saw and yet everyone moves on and forgets it.
I just find it strange, one of those funny little things in life i guess…
I don’t usually comment much about twitter, although i really should talk more about it. Particularly as it is fast becoming a very big part of mine and thousands of other peoples daily Internet lives, twittering every thought, meeting and encounter. It really is rather interesting how things like this can completely change people daily lives and out looks at the world around them… and the rest of us by simply sharing what we do with the world.
Also i am sure people have noticed that the few posts i have done in the past couple of months have been me having a rant about YouTube which mainly is because YouTube is a big part of my online life and where i am getting a lot of my content both news, and entertainment from, as well of as course all my news feeds on my iPod which has increased my news consumption ten fold since getting it, i love it.
I have also started a new project online, which i won’t talk about much hear as i plan on devoting a whole post to it, hopefully will be fun, and already it seems pretty cool ^^.
Now to talk about the main topic of this post!
Vlogging every day in April
vlogging every day in April, I thought i would give it ago, so seen a few people talking about the challenge of making a vlog everyday in April, and as i want to make more YouTube videos it sounds like a plan, so i hope to be interesting…
I thought I would write a little review for the iPod dock/alarm clock I got for Christmas, hope this helps!
must have been gone 3.30 by the time I got to sleep and then got woken by alarm on iPod… And fall back asleep to wake up at 8.20! 
not a good start to a day.