Julie's musings

I'm an application/user support engineer at heart, even though some of my recent career history might suggest otherwise (life has a way ...

I'm what my mum always called "nesh" - a Yorkshire term (I think), which Wikipedia defines as "unusually susceptible to ...

My Podcast app history Years ago, I used to use Doggcatcher.  I can't even remember which apps I used before that.  I'd evalu...

I'm looking for neat ideas to get the most from my new NFC ring.   The March of the Droids event last month included a coupl...

In January this year, I bought the amazing value Tesco Hudl2 to replace my aging original Nexus 7 as my primary tablet.  I bought a purple o...

A personal view, and a call to break the chain I recently casually "liked" somebody's amusing but rather bizarre post on ...

There has been a lot of panic and online discussion lately as Samsung (edit: and now Sony) have started rolling out KitKat to their devi...

The ChromeCast Dongle My "other" boss - the one in the USA - managed to get hold of some of the first batch of ChromeCast devi...

I just commented on Land of Droid's comparative review of Swype vs SwiftKey Flow , and it struck me that my long comment about the dif...

Anything that helps to streamline supermarket shopping is fine by me.   I'm not a fan of supermarket delivery services (I prefer to pick...

For some time now, I've been meaning to build on my mini reviews of DoggCatcher and BeyondPod in the PSC Forums, and perhaps do a co...

On a recent episode of the  Phones Show Chat , I talked briefly with Steve and Tim about my quest for my perfect second device, so I thought...

The Phones Show Chat reaches its 100th episode in party mood, with regulars Steve Litchfield and Tim Salmon joined by Jon Satherley, Kev Wri...

Yesterday I saw the sad news that Alex Simanov and his family were all killed in a plane crash, as reported by the  Miami Herald and elsewh...

I was Steve and Tim's guest on the Phones Show Chat  again this week. Discussions included my ever increasing frustration with the Ne...

Over the years, Andy and I have had occasions where we’ve wanted to find each other in an unfamiliar place.  Both of us have smartphones wit...

Tesco has just announced a trial of its new "SatNav" electronic shopping list Android software ... not that there's any ...

Steve's Phone Show review of the Xperia Arc with a little help from me is now available to view  (complete with hideous thumbnail, court...

My Nexus One is stubbornly refusing to recognise my (or any other) SIM card, so while it goes for repair, I'm temporarily using the Sony...

I don't know how I first heard about Words with Friends. I knew it existed back in December 2010, and was looking forward to trying it o...