I came across this little gem on a forum and thought I would share as it certainly made me chuckle.

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…

Is it just me who finds this massively amusing?

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).

For anyone who is interested

Dan

Hello,

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.

Will be fun to see how they go overnight.

Night all. x

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. =]

Note: Most of this was written on bus.

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.

I just find it strange, one of those funny little things in life i guess…

Hmm, was just on my twitter page and it wasn’t showing my update total, so naturally i took a screen shot.

However they seem to be back now! yay! (at presenter i have tweeted 1,413 times.

And im sure theres a lot more to come!

So in true blogger style of self promotion.

FOLLOW ME!http://twitter.com/dansgalaxy

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…

Check out my YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/user/dansgalaxyand also don’t forget to check out the collab channel i started a while ago – http://youtube.com/user/fiveawesomewebgeeks

Its all good, and definitely a bit of fun, that’s life i suppose.

Night all, or should that be morning?

So quite a few things have changed recently from my birthday, thats right I am now 17 and it seems like at a bit of a turning point…

College in a lot of ways I need to get on top of college to be able to progress with other things. The end of my first college year is in sight and summer is getting ever closer, I have always had problems getting head down when I am with others, far to distracting for my liking and the choice of just sitting in the corner and ripping my nose to pieces on a metaphorical grind stone takes a lot of will power not to mention trying to maintain the balance of being social to peers and friends bit getting the work done. Maybe I should try alternating every other lesson I am unspcialable and try and catch with some of my coursework. We shall see I guess.

Just a mention most of this post was written on a cool little app on my iPod on way home from college, always wanted to be able to write, well touch some posts and maybe this will mean I can start knocking more posts out.

A lot of the projects which I do are up in the air at the minute some clients are obviously being hit by the recession and are putting payments off, which is disappointing and then of course we have the radio station I do some stuff at which currently I am not really doing much with at the moment which is quite disappointing… And now it appears I will be resting from the Saturday evening show, not quite sure what people are thinking but hey! O well, each unto their own. Also been told I will be training others and currently waiting to have a meeting with couple of people so will see if anything materializes from this.