- To delete/re-organise icons touch and hold an icon until they all shake and have an x alongside them. Then just drag to move the icon, or click on the x to delete it. Push the home key to return to normal.

- To get quick access to your favourite contacts, simply push the home button twice to take you to your favourites list.

I’m sure you’ll all have many more tips and tricks and as I find new ones I’ll post them here too.

As for the phone itself, following Adrian’s lead, I’m planning to write a 1 month review later this week.

First we tried the shopping comparison web sites - Kelkoo, Dealtime and Shopping.com which gave us a better price of £569.99 from Dixons with free delivery (already a saving of about £80). Then we scoured the web for free vouchers which gave us another £20 off the Dixons price, so now a saving of £100. Next I went to the cashback site I tend to use, Freefivers (let me know if you want to join and I’ll refer you), which gave me 1.25% cashback with Dixons, about another £7. So far, I’d saved £107 off the price in the shop but then I thought - lets buy it using my American Express Platinum card which gave me a further 5% cashback, ~£35.

So, all in all - shopping around saved me over £140! Not bad for 10 minutes work online, particularly when you compare it to the time getting to and wandering round the shop.

Bargain!

What do you think?

I’ve already switched to online statements for my bank and online bills for my mobile phone, broadband/home phone, gas and credit card but still seem to be inundated with paperwork at home - roll on the day when I can access all my bills online from one place, see summaries of my expenditure and be advised of when I should switch to an alternate provider/package - I’ll keep dreaming

In this day and age where fraud is so prevalent, I was amazed to discover that when you register a birth you need absolutely no official form of identification - in fact only one parent needs to attend and you don’t even need to take the baby!

The only information you need, in addition to the chosen name of course, is the following:

- The date of birth of the baby

- The gender

- The surname of the mother

- The hospital at which the birth took place

This is then used to look up the baby’s birth (yes, the NHS and the Register Office have an integrated computer system - what a surprise!). In addition, you provide the following information for both parents which is recorded but not placed on the birth certificate:

- Full name (including maiden name)

- Date of birth

- Place of birth

- Occupation

Then, once this has all been registered, you get given (for a small fee) 2 birth certificates - a short version (as shown in the photo) which shows the basic information and is usually sufficient as a form of identification, and a full version which is required to obtain a first passport.

Note: You’ll need the birth certificate to be able to claim child benefit and the £250 child trust fund voucher you and your child are entitled to.

• Fetching extra pillows to prop her up
• Rearranging the current set of pillows to make her more comfortable
• Fetching a stool for her to put her feet on
• Fetching her drinks - breastfeeding is thirsty work
• Stripping Beatrix before the feed to ensure she is not so cosy she falls asleep while feeding
• Keeping Beatrix awake by tickling her feet or playing with her hands
• Holding Beatrix in position
• Answering the door or phone while Shelley is breastfeeding
• Fetching muslins to wipe up any spillages
• Getting the changing mat, top and tail bowl, cotton wool, nappy and clean clothes ready for a change afterwards if required
• And most importantly - chatting to Shelley and keeping her company

I’m sure there are some things I have forgotten - but hopefully you now understand, breastfeeding is something both parents take part in - not just the mother.

Check out some more photos in my Flickr set.

This could mean a serious shake up of internet services if it goes ahead as Microsoft and Yahoo! have a number of overlapping internet services - email, instant messaging, mapping, portal, search, etc. which I’m sure long term they would look to consolidate - a serious undertaking! I, like many internet users, will definitely be interested to see what they do with services such as Flickr and Del.icio.us.

If this does go ahead, watch out Google!

The DataPortability.org group was set up with pretty much exactly this in mind. I was a bit sceptical that it would come to anything initially as there were very few members but it looks like the big players are all joining up. So far there are representatives from Google, Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Twitter and Flickr - an amazing feat to get them all at the same virtual table I’m sure.

The first thing to come out of this, I think, will be more widespread adoption of OpenID for user login, probably as it is the simplest. There are already a number of sites supporting it (1,2) and some big companies talking about introducing it (read about France Telecom). If you haven’t already got an OpenID, then go and find out about it as I’m sure you’ll need one soon

I’m hoping we see lots more from this group in the future.

Still don’t get this whole thing about data portability? Then check out this video which explains it all.