Matt’s Journal

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Sorry for the lack of updates, it’s just pure laziness on my part. After coming back from my holiday, I have been holed up at work, tapping away like a monkey at my keyboard.
Updates are sparse on this occasion, Katie [...]

No, I’m not going to ambush you as you walk home in the evening.
I am however talking about a web service I am trying out, you may even have seen the green logo to the right of this post. Pownce is:
Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You [...]

After reading Sam’s post over at WhatDoIKnow, I also decided to vote for my favourite web tools and sites for this years Webware 100 Awards.
If you get the chance, let them know your picks from the different categories.

It’s not an official Google release but something like this should definitely be on their todo list. This tool, named Google Analytics Reporting Suite, is an Adobe Air application that brings your website’s statistics to your desktop. Coded by Nicholas over at AboutNico, Google Analytics Reporting Suite:
The Google Analytics Reporting Suite brings Google Analytics to [...]

Usually Gmail’s spam filter is exemplary and I never even receive a whiff of Spam in my Inbox. Over the last two days however, one type of Spam has been circumventing the filter and very annoyingly making it’s way into the sacred zone of my Inbox.
The screenshot below shows what the message contains:

It is quite [...]

Mixx has become my daily place for links and news. As discussed before, I used to use Digg for this very purpose but became disillusioned with the users and the content of the popular stories. Mixx has some splendid features, the Groups idea being unique to social voting sites. I am also a fan [...]

I used to be a very frequent user of Digg, I would check it for tech news, articles and it’s pictures section.
The content on Digg has always been quite diverse until recently. The current tech meme’s are the Nintendo (DS or Wii), Google (Apps, Gmail) and Apple (Macbook and iPhone) and are now [...]

After 16 months with my Sony Ericsson w850i, I decided I wanted a new phone that would allow me to be a lot more….to simply put it…..mobile. The Sony Ericsson phone whilst being fantastic for what I was using it for, didnt have the ability to check email all that well and didnt really allow [...]

Last week I was browsing around MoneySavingExpert and came across a company called Texperts. Texperts are a mobile search company who pretty much answer any question you fire at them, you simply text a question to a specified number and they reply in a few minutes with the answer you need!
Anyways, to cut a long [...]

I signed up with Pipex about three years ago now, their service was highly recommended by friends and they were relatively good value. In April I saw that we were being billed £24.99 a month for 2MB Broadband when they offered 8MB “Unlimited” Broadband for exactly the same price! Noticing that we could get increased [...]