Tag: coolsmartphone

Wapipedia.org now online – cut-down version of Wikipedia

Wikipedia.org is a fantastic free on-line encyclopedia which you can access from anywhere. Gone are the days of paying a fortune for editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, now it's all free and online. But wait - have you tried accessing it on your ...

My blog is all spanky..

I'm tweaking and upgrading the blog at the minute. The main reason is that I wasn't happy with the way it was working, so I've made the site to do something it's not designed to do - which is to take blog entries and display them in a …

Cast number 4!

At last, the fouth CoolSmartPhoneCast with added jingles is now online. You can download this to your phone and listen to whenever you feel. It's the mobile audio version of CoolSmartPhone and you can get the latest installment here. Don't forget that...

How to PhotoBlog

Blimey, it's a bit warm. At about quarter to five last night it was still a blistering 30 degrees C here in Merry Ole England. While I was having a nice boozy barbeque last night (along with the rest of the UK by the smell of it), it …

DOS Attack

Early this morning CoolSmartPhone was subject to a rather heavy Denial Of Service attack at around 4AM which lasted for 3 hours. The origins of this appear to be an AOL IP address at 172.216.224.73 which hammered our servers with tonnes of requests to...

Wow! You can now log in and STAY logged in!

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 ...

I’m bigger than you are, suck my fat lollipop

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...

What do you want to see at CoolSmartPhone.com ?

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...

UPDATE – Meanwhile, out in Iraq…

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...

CoolSmartPhoneCast 3 now online

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...

Videos that aren’t acceptable

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...

£19.99 a month for 2Mb Broadband!?

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 …

Our US Gadget Shop is about to change!

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...

CoolSmartPhoneCast Number 2 is online!

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...

More videos for you from SmartPhoneVideoPlus

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 (...

Skookum and Jeyo Mobile Extender Reviewed

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...

MPx or MPx220 as a free gift!?

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 …

CoolSmartPhoneCast XML feed and listings now online

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...

Improvements made to the site today…

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 ...

CoolSmartPhoneCast #1 is online!

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...

Server Upgrade (yes, again!)

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...

Even more 3GP videos for you!

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) ...

Call me, take part, listen to CoolSmartPhone!

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 ... …

Downloads Comments Disabled – I’m Annoyed!

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...

Something is coming soon!

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...

Poll Update – Does no-one have an E100?

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 …

Are you a fan of TV Show 24?

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,...

SPV M2000 Review now complete!

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...

New Poll – Just what Smartphone do you use ?

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 ...

Holiday times – I’ll be back soon!

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 …

US Visitors! Our new shop is online!

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...

CoolSmartPhone makes the news

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...

CoolSmartPhone Mobile improved!

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 ...

Core Network Maintenance

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 …

Airfagev gets a new look..

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...

CoolSmartPhone Juicy Newsletter

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 …

Even more site improvements

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...

More site improvements

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 ...

CoolSmartPhone is BACK!

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...

CoolSmartPhone is dead… Goodbye cruel world?!

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....