Tag: comments

Wake up. We’ve all been played.

Like it hate it, the Daily Mail website is one of the largest in the planet. Take a look at Wikipedia and you suddenly realise just how large it is. It’s massive. Absolutely massive. There’s separate home pages for the UK, USA, India and Australia. It’s therefore geared …

Online abuse. People think they’re in another world.

I’m always writing about the need to protect kids from their own mobile phones. In the house, when they’re in front of you, you can keep an eye on them. However, when they’re away from you – even in the other room – you could assume that “someone” …

Our comments system

Recently you may have noticed that our commenting system has changed somewhat. The new system allows you to add your comments much more easily than before and adds a newsfeed too. However, we’re having a number of issues with it. We’ve tried over the last few weeks to …

Solar Charger app pokes fun at those daft enough to believe

Browsing around the Android Market Google Play last night, I couldn’t help but notice this Solar Charger app. It’s had hundreds of thousands of downloads and converts your screen into a solar panel. Magic eh? Well yes. It’s actually more of a trick really. The app doesn’t actually …

You! Talk to us!

We’ve had some rather freaky bugs running around the commenting system of late. It’s meant that some of you, using certain browsers, have had problems adding your comments. First up, our apologies. Much of Coolsmartphone is controlled in-house and we can fix local stuff quickly, but there’s a …

So, that didn’t work then..

Our comments system broke again this week. Humble apologies for this. As I can’t personally blame it on my sloppy coding any more I’ll simply tell you the truth, it a combination of our content delivery network (CDN) and one of our older servers being disabled. We’ve recently …

Our comments system is back!

Yes, the commenting system was down yesterday. Strangely this time it had nothing to do with beer but involved our content delivery system trying to take over. Everything should be fine now, but do let me know if you spot anything strange. Please feel free to add your …