Paul Maunders | Web log

We use Google Apps Premier to host Fubra’s e-mails, and on the whole I love it – I get a massively reduced level of spam into my inbox, and searching out old mails is incredibly fast. However, it does lack some of the flexibility of our old internal postfix based system, and this became apparent [...]

Today I have been attempting to set up Google Calendar so that it automatically synchronises with an iPhone and also iCal on a Mac computers. It was a bit trickier than I expected, so here are some of my observations. Hopefully they will help someone else!
Google Sync 
Here are some of the main things you need [...]

Currently there is no Adsense API for accessing account statistics / reports. Fortunately, Alex Polski (Victor Klepikovskiy) runs a project on Google Code that provides a PHP class to login and download a variety of reports from Adsense. 
So, if you want to monitor your Adsense reports in your own systems, you should give his PHP Adsense Account Library [...]

We’ve been desperate for a centralised calendar solution that can sync with all our desktop PCs and iPhones for a while now, and yesterday one of our developers, Matt, found a solution for us.
It combines the following technologies:

Google Calendar
iCal
calaboration
Nuevasync
iPhone
MobileMe

Essentially Google Calendar is used to provide a central calendar, this is then synced to the iPhones [...]

As many blogs have been reporting today, Google has launched a new feature for their Google Maps for Mobile service called “My Location”.

My Location is simple; it shows a little blue dot on the map to represent your current location. However, the really clever part is that GPS is not required for this to work. [...]

It’s not often that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launch a new software development kit with a $10 million prize for developers and a video explanation / press release from one of it’s founders. Yet that is exactly what has happened today with Android’s offical SDK release.
Before you read on, you should probably watch Sergey Brin’s [...]

Earlier this week Techcrunch revealed that Google were about to launch a new social network project called OpenSocial. Rather than push out yet another social platform, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) have decided to stick to their strengths and core mission, that is; to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. [...]

I have just ordered myself some new Salomon 3V skates, so now I can keep fit skating around town! I’ve been looking for more information on them, but so far haven’t found any, so if anyone knows of any reviews please let me know (yes, technically I should have done my research before I ordered [...]