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OK, OK! I've had a whole heap of emails saying, "Your search thing doesn't work on the downloads section". After several hours of drinking and keyboard-bashing I've finally sorted it out but we're always after more stuff to search through so get uploa...
The guys at SwiftScripts.co.uk have blessed us with the "website of the week" award. Their site, which houses lots of useful PHP, CGI and Perl scripts, gave us a stonking 8/10 for the service we provide. It's not all good news though, apparently we on...
The MoDaCo summer event kicks off this Saturday. If you're planning to attend then there's the usual food, raffle, pub quiz and beer plus goodie bag. Held at the Orange offices at The Point in London Paddington (shown right) between 12 noon and around...
You may recall I mentioned the problems we're having with Google. It turns out that it's not just us - there's posts from annoyed webmasters on forums across the web and I've found some huge problems with the results it's giving. Something is seriousl...
I'm sitting out in the garden watching the England match right now. Vista has finally allowed me to write a few quick stories which we've missed out whilst I was on my honeymoon. First up a quick note about SmartPhoneHistory.com, a site made by Ashley...
I'm always a bit sceptical about free text messaging services. Usually your number gets sold to some random company or the person you're sending to gets spam texts shortly after. Sure, you could say, "You don't get something for nothing" but heck it's...
Morning all! Yes I'm back from honeymoon and service will be restored shortly. Our wedding day was incredibly hot and everything went perfectly. Many thanks for all your kind words, we really couldn't have wished for a better day. The honeymoon was fa...
We're getting married tomorrow, so it's a complete mad house around here. This is probably going to be my last post until late June when we return. Many thanks to everyone who has sent in their best wishes, it's very much appreciated. We seem to have ...
I'm very happy to say that CoolSmartPhone.com is now available through Sky TV's new internet portal which you can access from any Sky box. To find us, simply follow these steps.... 1) Press the "Interactive" button on your remote and select "SkyKey...
A quick notice for members and visitors of CoolSmartPhone. This coming Saturday, June 10th 2006, I'll be getting married to my gorgeous girlfriend Emily. We've been together now for about 8 years and I've finally managed to drag her down the aisle. :)...
Paul at MoDaCo has pointed me at this post which details a way to make free cash. Yes, I know - normally people turn off right now due to the sheer amount of "free cash" offers piling into inboxes daily, however this is simply a reward for putting …
Right - a quick bit of news for you file-hungry visitors. I've re-added a new and improved section to show the most recent submissions to the CoolSmartPhone downloads area and the top 100 downloads too. I say "improved" because you guys have been aski...
OK, it's come to my attention that a few of you are having issues logging into us. What should happen is that the site will detect your previous log-in and welcome you by saying, "Hello (username)!" at the top (if you've chosen "remember me"). A few o...
In AOL-land they love to use "keywords". For example, if you enter "grammy awards" you'll get the official Grammy Awards site if you're an AOL member and nothing else. Yubnub.org seeks to do something similar and, by using their site and entering a "c...
Torsten has emailed about iAudioguide.com who offer free mp3 audio guides. At present there are guided tours of Barcelona, London and Paris. You just need to save the .zip file to your PC then open it up. There's several mp3 files in the z...
We really LOVE files here at CoolSmartPhone and we need your help now that we've got a file-hungry downloads system all ready for your stuff. We're looking for either.. 1) Good audio files which are less than 30 seconds for ringtones (MP3 / WAV / WMV)...
This week I've managed to break the new feedback forum, then I succeeded in breaking the entire server. So, it seems fitting that I should break the microphone whilst recording the latest podcast, but hey - what else could go wrong ? :) Podcast number...
You may have noticed that the sparkly new downloads system has been a bit empty of late. This is mainly because the "botch it together to fit into the forum" implementation didn't work too well. Comments weren't working, the screenshots weren't workin...
Just yesterday we told you about the full availability of the Orange SPV M600 in our shop. Well, if that wasn't news enough, how about winning some tickets to the World Cup ? Oh yes, you can be in with a chance of winning a pair of VIP …
A totally new downloads area will be online soon. It will, for quite a while, run in tandem with our existing downloads section here. This is to maintain all previous links from articles, news items and other pages around the web. Due to the fact that...
Nearly 4 years ago all of this was a just a single web page. It's evolved over the years into the epic beast you now see before you. However, at the start of this year I wasn't 100% happy with things. The new login system was slowing the …
I spotted ComVu over at MoDaCo recently. It's a free piece of software that, after you've logged in and created an account, lets you stream live video and audio from your device. Yes - live. You can stream it over whatever connection you have, be it t...
Doing podcasts can sometimes be a tad annoying. This particular one has been recorded around 5 times. I've either broke into coughing fits, found that the microphone fell out without realising it, or the piggin' battery has gone flat. Tonight though I...
Right, I'm going to confuse myself now. Here in Europe we're now on Daylight Savings Time, so all our clocks have gone forwards. However, in the USA their clocks haven't changed yet - that happens on April 2nd at 2am. So, if I've got this right, New Y...
In an attempt to make this site more orderly, I'll be introducing some more categories to the news and articles section. The first new one is "Fun Time Friday", which is our weekly slice of video goodness. This now has it's very own section within our...
Unfortunately with a site of this size it's sometimes a little difficult to continually.. Errmm.. How do they say.. "monetize" it, however I did promise myself that I'd at least test those "flashy banner"-type ads you (used to) see on the side panels ...
If you're ever in the need of a encyclopedia when you're on the move, when not try typing in http://www.3g.co.nz/wiki into your device to get a mobile version of the huge Wikipedia.org site. New Zealand-based company "Instinct" have developed this por...
Steve Litchfield has just put his sixth Smartphones Show online. It includes a review of the QTek 8300 music phone and a beginners' guide to using more than one application at once on both Windows Mobile and Symbian handsets. Get the latest episode, p...
OOOfff I've been a busy lad. This past few weeks has involved broken laptops, stack loads of DIY, motorway services, hotels plus some damned expensive tyres. Today though I've finally managed to finish off recording Podcast 19 and I even found a few s...
The WindowsMobile.com site has received a significant facelift recently and is well worth a visit. There's support, news, handsets, accessories and add-on information plus a whole load more. There's also information about the upgrade to Windows Mobile...
NewMobile.nl has always been one of my most checked websites. It contains a mountain of mobile phones, comparisons and photos of all the latest devices. Now it's even better because their English version is online at newmobile.com. If you're ever conf...
Steve Litchfield has just published his fourth Smartphones Show which is available here and features a full video review of the Windows Mobile powered i-Mate SP5. His next show should feature the QTek 8300 music smartphone, so it's well worth keeping ...
OK so it's Monday and I've had a nightmare choosing winners! We've had Stuey Roscoe sending in pictures of girls, girls and yet more girls. We've had Lee Sainsbury freezing his phone to make a real "CoolSmartPhone", weird car accidents from Jonathan H...
OK, so it is Sunday and I did tell you guys that I'd have a winner for you yesterday, however I've been completely snowed under with entries. Right now I'm just finishing the upload of the photos that have been sent in and I'll have a winner for …
Don't forget that time is running out if you want to be in with a chance of winning an Orange SPV C550 or a music dock. Here's the entries we have so far - we've had over 125 and they're fantastic!! Some of them just go to show …
Podcast number 18 is now online here. As you know by now I record these whilst driving home from work. I had to do this podcast twice because some muppet decided it'd be a great idea to try and join the M6 at 20mph on the slip-road. When …
We've received quite a few entries to our mad competition where we're giving away a spanky new music dock. As I said previously I'm going to be adding to the prizes, so what better to go with a music dock than an Orange SPV C550 !?! Yes this …
People are going to think I'm nuts here.. and they'd be right. You may remember that I bought this music dock recently. £20 of my own hard-earned cash was spent getting this over from Hong Kong. I've reviewed it and now I've decided to give it away t...
Sean Murphy @ MobileGadgetNews.com has just posted this... "It is with a heavy heart that I write this post. Tomorrow at around noon Pacific time, MGN will go up on the auction block on Ebay. I have been running this site since October of 2003 and it...
A quick thank-you to the guys at Spoonydunappa for helping me get CoolSmartPhone.com back online today. We were hit by a double-blow this weekend. Firstly we had several thousand IP's trying to grab a rather large file from our downloads area directly...
