bitcolumns » bitcolumns http://www.bitcolumns.com tech news that matters Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:49:39 +0000 en hourly 1 bitcolumns, now on your phone http://www.bitcolumns.com/2009/06/12/bitcolumns-now-on-your-phone/ http://www.bitcolumns.com/2009/06/12/bitcolumns-now-on-your-phone/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:15:08 +0000 Sam Hutchings http://www.bitcolumns.com/?p=1593 The bitcolumns site is quite image laden, meaning it is not always the best site to access on your phone. It can also sometimes take a while to load. It is for this reason we have now got a mobile version of bitcolumns.com (thanks to our friends over at www.mofuse.com.)

Now, if you access http://mobile.bitcolumns.com on a mobile phone (apart from an iPhone, which will access our normal site) you will be sent to our new text-based mobile phone site. Although not quite so pretty, it will bring you all the same information in a faster loading format.

]]> http://www.bitcolumns.com/2009/06/12/bitcolumns-now-on-your-phone/feed/ 1 The Magic of Twitter http://www.bitcolumns.com/2009/02/16/the-magic-of-twitter/ http://www.bitcolumns.com/2009/02/16/the-magic-of-twitter/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:27:04 +0000 Sam Hutchings http://www.bitcolumns.com/?p=1321 More and more of us are jumping onto social networking sites. Be it Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, or any number of others, the principal is the same: to keep you and your friends up to date about the happenings in life. Most allow you to do this easily online with a status option, but Twitter takes this one step further.

Twitter is a site dedicated to these short, status update-esque, messages (140 characters long, to be precise), allowing you to update online, by text, with phone applications, and more. the idea is to quickly let everyone who follows you to know what you want them to know instantly. Popular updates include: location, going out for a party, found a brand new website, taken an interesting photo, and the standard, and omnipresent, “I’m bored” messages.

You can also follow other users, allowing you to see what they are up to, and reply directly to them as soon as they publish their update. This allows conversations to happen very easily, and quickly, from pretty much anywhere you can get a connection to a phone network. But this brings the major problem with Twitter: addiction.

Having used Twitter very recently, I have to admit that I am starting to become hooked on it myself. Checking every few minutes to see if someone has replied or published a good story, and then replying and waiting some more. It is very easy to become enthralled with such a simple concept.

Anyone can join at www.twitter.com, and best of all it is free. And as everyone needs someone they can follow, why not follow @smutchings and @bitcolumns. Giving you the updates on what is happening, as it happens, and we will follow you back. If you would like to sahre your ‘tweeting’ with other users here, just put your @username in your comment.

]]> http://www.bitcolumns.com/2009/02/16/the-magic-of-twitter/feed/ 0 bitcolumns explodes onto the scene! http://www.bitcolumns.com/2008/09/01/bitcolumns-explodes-onto-the-scene/ http://www.bitcolumns.com/2008/09/01/bitcolumns-explodes-onto-the-scene/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:00:33 +0000 bitcolumns http://bitcolumns.com/?p=364 Monday 1st September, 19:00: bitcolumns.com goes live, ushering a new generation of technology and entertainment journalism aimed purely at students.

Run entirely by students, bitcolumns aims to bring you the news and information you deserve from official sources. With partners such as Microsoft, Asus, Nokia and MSI, bitcolumns provides students with the access they crave to the information they desire.

Our goal is to save you money and face, whilst enlightening and teaching.

We, the staff, welcome you here. And hope you enjoy your stay!!

Yours…

The bitcolumns team

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