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		<title>Tivo Return to UK Via Virgin Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This would be so awesome&#8230;. if I could get Virgin connectivity. This bit saddens me though, unless Virgin start releasing set top boxes for the rest of us.
&#8220;Virgin Media will become the exclusive distributor of TiVo services and technology in the United Kingdom. &#8220;
The full announcement is here

Virgin Media Selects TiVo For Next Generation TV [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/11/25/tivo-return-to-uk-via-virgin-media/</link>
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		<title>Another Android Security Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke this morning to a new security update notification on my T-mobile G1. The update can be downloaded directly from Google&#8217;s servers if you don&#8217;t yet have it. The build number changes from CRB43 to CRC1. The update itself is only 2mb but there seems to be little information as to what it fixes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/07/18/another-android-security-update/</link>
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		<title>Pictures from Computex 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of my colleagues are in Taipei again attending Computex 2009 this week and the news is that there appear to be a whole lot of netbooks on view.  As ever Nick is uploading pictures to Picasa so you can get some idea of what&#8217;s about. As the days progress Nick will update the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/06/02/pictures-from-computex-2009/</link>
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		<title>Pull That Squidgy iPhone application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a friend was ranting away as usual about how stuff was always broken and in passing mentioned the iPhone application Squidgy, an application that allows you to control your Squeezbox(es). There are apparently two problems with the application. The first is that it crashes quite a bit and doesn&#8217;t really seem to work very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/06/02/pull-that-squidgy-iphone-application/</link>
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		<title>Extra Cupcake, Still No Latitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After getting Android Cupcake about a month ago and running it happily, this morning I was notified of another update that was a security fix.  I have been unable to find anything that mentions what the fix was for, I guess it&#8217;s a little early for that information to be floating around. I&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/05/22/extra-cupcake-still-no-latitude/</link>
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		<title>G1 Assault on battery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m late to the party but a few days ago I received a small package containing a T-Mobile G1 phone running Android. The first thing I did was go to unlock-now to get myself a SIM unlock code. After submitting my details and paying up the 17.50 EUR it was just a case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/04/25/g1-assault-on-battery/</link>
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		<title>Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally I wasn&#8217;t going to blog about this but I finally gave in so here it is. This is another one of those things that you really just can&#8217;t do with your iPhone unless you&#8217;ve jailbroken it. 
Having the weather on your lock screen is nothing particularly new, there are enough Winterboard themes that allow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/03/21/everywhere-you-go-always-take-the-weather-with-you/</link>
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		<title>Pachube dials without the heartache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people might not want to have their own web server and php installs just to use their Pachube feed to show a dial or two so let me introduce to you the simple way of getting this all to work. Go over to my Pachube app page and follow the on screen instructions. You&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/03/05/pachube-dials-without-the-heartache/</link>
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		<title>Dynamic Dials Disclosed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been quite a bit of interest in my electricity usage dial like the one below so I&#8217;m going to go through how I did it with you. The first thing you&#8217;ll need is the XML/SWF Gauge and a web server with PHP. It&#8217;s possible to do this on a web server running Perl or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/03/04/dynamic-dials-disclosed/</link>
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		<title>Gratifying Graphic Gizmos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Current Cost unit actually got installed for real, something I was dreading. Dreading not because it was a difficult thing to do but simply because I expected the figure it would show would be terrible. Guess what, it wasn&#8217;t. In fact it seemed to be fairly close to that of other people who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/03/01/gratifying-graphic-gizmos/</link>
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		<title>Current Cost Capers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Unbioctium Current Cost CC128 arrived on Thursday and although I&#8217;m not going to actually get a chance in install it for a couple of weeks I did have a play. The first thing to do once it was all up and paired with the base was get the output into my laptop. To do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/02/13/current-cost-capers/</link>
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		<title>One Wireduino made easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a very long time now I&#8217;ve been playing with the Arduino boards but it wasn&#8217;t until I recently discovered some DS1820 1-wire chips in my parts box that I started even thinking about 1-wire stuff. Connecting 1-wire devices to the Arduino is, well, amazingly simple. Using the sample circuit from the datasheet we can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/02/04/one-wireduino-made-easy/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress tweetbacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweetbacking, it sounds like some sort of deviant sport or something but isn&#8217;t. The idea behind Tweetbacks, similar to pingbacks, is that you can see who is commenting (tweeting) about your blog on Twitter. There are a number of plugins available for use in the end I went for Joost de Valk&#8217;s version. While it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2009/01/12/wordpress-tweetbacking/</link>
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		<title>What the UK VAT Reduction really means</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new UK VAT rate that came in today is probably going to affect consumers in many ways. Unfortunately,  as you can see from the snapshot images below of the expansys website, I fear that this solution, as predicted in our office, will become widespread. I&#8217;d also expect in 13 months for them to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2008/12/01/what-the-uk-vat-reduction-really-means/</link>
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		<title>iPhone proximity sensing IS in the API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seems to have been a lot of misinformation flying about of late. With Google releasing a new version of their app incorporating proximity sensing, some blogs have claimed this is breaking AppStore rules by using undocumented hidden (non public) API calls. I&#8217;m here to tell you that&#8217;s just rubbish. All that has happened is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2008/11/28/iphone-proximity-sensing-is-in-the-api/</link>
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		<title>Concept iPhone Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been messing about trying to learn how to write iPhone apps. There&#8217;s a lot to take in but at the moment I&#8217;ve managed a concept application. A little shop (of horrors  . At the moment it simply reads data from an sqlite database and then displays information on the product. The buy now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2008/11/11/concept-iphone-application/</link>
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		<title>Meet JO Black</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having the IMIV in the car makes driving around much more fun but up until recently I had my iPhone and prior to that my iPod Classic flapping about on the passenger seat. It worked but wasn&#8217;t particularly elegant and of course the moment I had a passenger in the 
car there was a problem. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2008/11/01/meet-jo-black/</link>
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		<title>Free World Dialup not so free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s late but I really hate to write this post. I really, really do. It saddens me deeply. Free World Dialup the pioneering VoIP service has gone &#8216;pay only&#8217;. For a $30 yearly charge you can now get exactly what you used to have.

For me Free World Dialup represented what should have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2008/10/30/free-world-dialup-not-so-free/</link>
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		<title>Fullscreen iPhone WebApps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web applications on the iPhone have always been second class citizens without access to the really interesting features. To add insult to injury web applications lost a large chunk of screen real estate to the top and bottom Safari toolbars. 
Well, now they don&#8217;t need to. For users with firmware 2.1, if you add the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2008/10/19/fullscreen-iphone-webapps/</link>
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		<title>Tesco DVD Player Region Hack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the UK Tesco are selling a sub £20 DVD player &#8211; the Tecknika DVD 1033. It looks cheap, it looks nasty but it works very well indeed and what&#8217;s more you can make it region free. I really don&#8217;t know how they build these things so cheaply and I do worry that small children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.automated.it/2008/10/11/tesco-dvd-player-region-hack/</link>
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