Category: Website news
Cookies! Yeah! They're great! The chocolate-chip ones are my favourite, but alas we're not talking about the lovely cookies you get from the local Morrisons, oh no. We're talking about those web-cookies that store little tit-bits of information, such ...
Crazy Frog is number 1 again, the goverment want to charge us for every mile we drive or something and now apparently there's a recession on. Still, don't worry - you've always got that box in the corner of your room to access CoolSmartPhone.com! :) P...
I'm always striving to make CoolSmartPhone bigger and better, but I need your help. My immediate plans for this site at present involve a cookie login system, which will allow you to log in without having to type in your damned details each time. Howe...
I've just spotted this news story about British troops from the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq. To keep moral high they produced a spoof version of the video for Amarillo, recently re-released by Peter Kay and Tony Christie. They called it, "Is this the...
The third ever "PodCast" is now available for download by clicking here. I still haven't managed to include your feedback as yet - mainly because I've had a real arse of a week and haven't had chance. Have a listen anyway, 'cus it's ruddy brilliant. O...
I've been watching the Tonight show on ITV1 tonight. The show, plus news reports today, have launched an invesigation into "happy slapping" - this is an alarming new teenage craze which involves using a mobile phone to film violent attacks on innocent...
My ISP have just informed me that I can upgrade my home ADSL (broadband) line from 512Kbps up to 2Mbps and still pay the same per month! Now there's a deal my son! If you're interested in this, here's the blurb I got.. "40x faster than dial-up. Want …
Some of you will have already seen the great deals on at our US Gadget Shop here. Well, our partners at MobilePlanet, who run the CoolSmartPhone Gadget Shop, have now been acquired by eXpansys which means that soon we should see global shipping availa...
Our second audio extravaganza is now online here. It's new and improved this time - I actually did some editing too! :) We've had CoolSmartPhone member "Doofus" adding some funking bits into it - a theme tune and "segways" are now including to break e...
22 Free 3GP videos available now at SmartphoneVideo.com: 50cent-candy-shop.3gp (free) destinyschild_girl.3gp (free) the-game_how-we-do.3gp (free) Gwen-Stefani_Hollaback-Girl.3gp (...
A big thank-you to the support guys at our hosting company today, who've helped to sort the memory issues some of you may have noticed with CoolSmartPhone.com. This is due to heavy usage - we're now bigger than ever before and the site was extremely a...
Hmm.. this seems almost too good to be true, but apparently, according to MobilesWork.com you can get an MPx or an Mpx220 - or another pre-release handset as a free gift !!! The catch ? Well, you have to refer 5 other people to their site and they …
Ok, following on from the first ever CoolSmartPhone"Cast" I can now announce that the hastily botched-together XML / RSS feed is now online and ready to rock. So, if you're already drooling with excitement and can't wait for the next CoolSmartPhone au...
The upgrade to a full 1Gig of memory is now complete, which means that CoolSmartPhone can now handle more visitors than ever before. I'm still working on the cookie login system, this should be live very soon! I also had an email in from Neil Deadman ...
Well, it's by no means a "polished production", but it's my first valiant effort into the realms of Podcasting and it's now online :) I'm going to construct a page containing these PodCasts, which will be roughly 15-30 minutes long each, but for now y...
Sometime today the dedicated server hosting CoolSmartPhone.com will be off-line for a short while. We're having a memory upgrade, which will mean we can have even more people online at once. Each person on the site uses a connection to the database, a...
More Free 3GP videos are available now at SmartphoneVideo.com: beatles-lucy_in_the_sky_with_diamonds.3gp (free) chevelle-vitamin_r_leading_us_along.3gp (free) cosmic_gate-live_@_trance_energy_16-02-02.3gp (free) ...
You may have heard me mention the tests I've been working on with streaming radio. This seems to have gone fairly well and it's still running now, so I'm planning to launch a new service for you lot off the back of this. It'll be available as ... …
I've had to remove the capability to leave comments within the downloads section here at CoolSmartPhone today. This rather helpful and informative feature was abused by several users who thought they'd post serial codes for trial software. This is ann...
I've just added a quick article on using Windows Media Player 10 to syncronise your music. It's available here, so take a look. This kinda leads me onto something I wanna share with you all that we've been working on for a few weeks now.. There's been...
In our recent poll we asked you to tell us just which handset you guys are using. So far, we appear to have a high amount of people using the SPV C500 (53.96% at present) and 15.83% of people are using the SPV E200. The T-Mobile SDA still …
I'm hearing a lot about TV Show "24" at the minute, although I must confess to never watching it. The very recognisable phone ring is heard throughout the show and is being played a lot on Radio 1 during the Chris Moyles show at the minute. The phone,...
You may remember over the weekend I published a review of the Orange SPV M2000. This has now been tweaked, updated and new pictures have been added to now fully complete the review. You can see in the review just how many people near my home don't bo...
I've not used our voting / poll booth system for quite a while, so I thought I'd ask our members a relatively simple question - just what Smartphone do you use? I ask this mainly because I get questions from people using the SPV and Motorola handsets ...
The bags are packed and there's a plane at Gatwick airport with a few seats free so we're off on a 10-day holiday. This time I won't be able to get near an internet cafe and check the site, so I'm going to be leaving you guys until …
CoolSmartPhone.com is, as you may know, based in the UK. However, I'm keen to include everyone, and so today I'm proud to announce the launch of the CoolSmartPhone USA Shop! Built and maintained by MobilePlanet, this shop includes the popular iMate JA...
It seems CoolSmartPhone is in the news itself, albeit only on the web. As an IT type person myself, I regularly trawl a number of sites aimed at like-minded profesionals. One such site is www.TheRegister.com, who are highly regarded as a source of new...
Just a quick note about the mobile version of CoolSmartPhone.com (click here to see). As you may or may not know, when you browse to ... http://www.coolsmartphone.com ...on any device, the site will do some magic and will automatically detect whether ...
This Monday morning at around 8AM UK time (GMT / UTC), CoolSmartPhone will be off-line for around 15 minutes while a core network switch is upgraded. Don't worry if you can't see us! We will be back within quarter of an hour! :) I have also added a …
Rey J Vegafria, owner and webmaster of the excellent Airfagev.com site has emailed in to tell us about his new funky site design. Airfagev.com is the place to go if you've got a Smartphone in the Philippines and Rey is always ready to help. He holds e...
Hey! Do you want something cool in your inbox every week ? Do you want the latest Smartphone goss ? The latest downloads and lovely stuff for your SPV / SMT5600 / MPx200 etc etc ? Well now you can 'cus we're .. (me, I mean me.. it's …
Another addition today is the improvement and re-working of the syndicated feeds coming in from other Smartphone websites. You can find these here and they now all have very clever little sub-menus too. Updated also is your photo blog, where you can i...
After spectacularly falling off the non-drinking wagon last night, I did some of my infamous late night completely drunk PHP coding. The end result, as I look at it the next morning, seems quite good. It basically means that you can now quick link to ...
A few hours ago I posted this story about the CoolSmartPhone server being shut down by our hosting company. Well, it would appear that it was all one big ... umm.. well, we're not sure what happened. I'm sat here just trying to figure out what the duc...
For reasons best known to themselves, the company hosting this site believe that I have been using my server for "an eBay scamming scheme". I have just received an email saying that my account will be closed and the server will be removed immediately....
Quick update, we've now moved again! We're now located in California and have an even bigger server this time, with room to play with both bandwidth-wise and storage-wise. If you're reading this and are having trouble logging in, it may be worth tryin...
The new version of SmartPhoneTV.com that has just been launched. SmartPhoneTV.com can officially claim that they are now the worlds largest video site for mobile phones. They now cater in wmv, mpg and 3gp videos (which the newer windows smartphones pl...
For those of you who don't know, there's an incredibly useful website on the net called The Wayback Machine. It works by allowing you to browse old versions of websites which have been either cached or saved on a couple hundred modified servers situat...
I've been tweaking around with the XML feeds here at CoolSmartPhone. To get the full range of XML feeds that are now available, just click here. I've had a few emails regarding the previous feed, which included my blog. People don't tend to want to in...
If you're reading this then it means that we've successfully shifted to our new hosted server in the USA. My attempt at upgrading the site to a new version of it's Content Management System had to be aborted as it just couldn't take the load. This is ...
