http://marcusfoster.com/blog Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:39:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have been working on this for a little while and today it finally saw the light of day. Check it out at Google Mobile or download it directly to your Blackberry from http://m.google.com/sync. Also see my post to on the Google Mobile blog. http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/12/12/google-sync-for-mobile/ It has been great working with the Jaiku team over the past few months and I am really excited that they are now finally part of the family. http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/10/09/welcome-jaiku/ It was ten years ago today, that my friend Sebastian and I packed up my dad's Lada estate with all the personal possessions we could fit into it, mounted our bikes on the roof and set off for Hamburg to catch the ferry to Harwich. Sebastian went back to Berlin ... http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/09/15/ten-years/ If you have not signed the iPlayer Petition on the No 10 website, please do. I find it infuriating that the BBC could even consider in this day and age to launch such an important service for Windows and IE only. What are they thinking? http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/08/07/iplayer-petition/ I read this in an article about the "Webmaster of Al-Qaida" in The Economist today: In light of this month's failed attempts to set off car bombs in London and at Glasgow airport, allegedly by a group of foreign doctors and other medical staff, one exchange of messages found on Irhabi007's ... http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/07/16/strange/ Mike Rowehl of Admob has a great story about how the Gmail for Mobile Java client saves him on his current trip to India. It is nice to know that we can make a difference to some people's lives. http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/07/15/gmail-for-mobile-saves-the-day/ Since I have taken some time off work to get to know Charlie properly, I am hoping to get some major DIY jobs done around the house. I plan to lay the oak flooring planks in some rooms, build a few shelves and maybe my wardrobe. Yeah right. But hey, ... http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/05/18/things-that-really-matter-powertool-shopping-spree/ Surprisingly, Charlie Foster decided to come out much earlier than expected. He was born yesterday, weighing 3.4kg. He has a full head of hair, just like his brother did and generally seems quite excited to be 'out and about'. Beth is doing fine, enjoying some time off from Felix, ... http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/05/08/charlie-foster-is-here/ I cannot believe that I have not posted anything for two months. My life has been absolutely insane. Work has been crazily busy. We have finally moved back into our house (yes, after almost 5 months!), which is still a building site, and the new baby is coming in a ... http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/04/13/is-it-april-already/ Today we launched the Gmail for Mobile J2ME application in Spanish, French, German, Italian and UK English. So if you are a Gmail user in any of those languages you can now get the app by going to gmail.com/app or googlemail.com/app in your phone browser. Let me know if you ... http://marcusfoster.com/blog/2007/02/07/gmail-j2me-client-available-internationally/