Something I've learnt recently is to take nothing for granted with your 'inclusive' minutes on your mobile contract. One thing I would have thought would be on my included minutes are 08** numbers (such as 0800 and 0845, freephone and local ... (more)
If you are asked for your SIM number by your carrier or mobile phone operator, you will find this on your iPhone within Settings: General: About and scroll down to the bottom. The IMEI is the unique number for your phone (International Mobile ... (more)
One day, we'll be wondering how we ever managed to pay for things without our mobile phones. Right now, however, Barclays Bank is taking the plunge and allowing their customers to push payments from their smart-phone to someone else's phone ... (more)
Get a mobile wi-fi device from Vodafone for free by purchasing a £25+/month 18-month contract. Here's what it does: When you are on the move, this device creates a wi-fi network which you can connect up to five wireless devices. It ... (more)
The Climbing Number is the greatest number of days that you've ridden amount of elevation gain. So, if you've managed 100 or more days with at least 100 feet of climbing on each day, then your number is 100. If you've only managed 65 or ... (more)
The Eddington Number is a strangely addictive score for cyclists, devised by British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington for ranking their achievements in an ever-harder scale. Also known as the Eddington Scale, it is defined as "the largest ... (more)
In physical activities, the Climbing Number is a progressive score that is based on the number of days that you've climbed that number of feet (in imperial mode) or metres (in metric). It is calculated in the same way as the distance-based ... (more)
Fixed positioning of HTML elements on a webpage doesn't always work on mobile devices. Here's a piece of meta code that is supposed to 'fix' the size of the of the viewport: Back to the articleUser-agent: This ... (more)
TrafficTV (http://www.traffictv.co.uk/) is a system that provides trafficmaster data to your mobile phone. Clearly this means that you need to have your mobile phone switched on and visible to you whilst driving, to act like a SatNav device ... (more)
It's amazing how much data some apps consume nowadays. If you're on a wi-fi network, that's not a big deal. Your mobile contract (or PAYG allowance) may not have much mobile data bundled, however, so you could rapidly find yourself racking ... (more)
Cyclocross Cyclo-cross is the less well known of the cycling disciplines, maybe because it doesn't qualify for either the winter or summer Olympics calendars. It really is a mixed bag! Having said that, the sport is in rapid growth, at ... (more)