Hey. Thanks for checking out the site. You'll find posts on geek stuff, Howto's, reviews of stuff I get, as well as musings on things that happen in my life, which tend to be music related, or job related, so expect some stories of horror from the IT field!.
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I went to O2 today to look at phones and was greeted by this:
Apparently O2 doesn’t like the beta version of Camino, so recommends Netscape? That’s just f**ked up
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So I recently decided I had to buy a new phone. I have a Nokia 6280 and its driving me crazy. It seemed great at first. 3G, bluetooth, 2MP camera, external memory card slot (which I upgraded to 512MB), slide design. Lovely. But the firmware let me down. It spent months restarting itself, and its [...]
Don’t worry. This isn’t a tribute to our favorite(!) Durst-assisted band, Stain’d (why the apostrophe? is an e that difficult to find in the keyboard?) Its just an explaination of where I’ve been. Here’s a run down.
1. Been moving house. This means packing boxes, buying furniture, moving boxes, putting together ikea flat packs, contacting many [...]
So I saw this story on Diggnation the other week and am writing to support the campaign.
So, on 24 March (Saturday to make it a bit easier), its Shutdown Day. Turn off your computer, step away from the keyboard, put down that mouse, and take your eyes off the screen.
This campaign has two main objectives.
1. [...]
There’s a lot of noise at the moment about Myspace and Facebook, and a few other services. They seem to be slowly declining.
Now I’m not the first to bitch about myspace. its a waste of mytime to be honest. Its a horrible web 0.1 website, which gets bombarded with horrible embedded music you can’t stop, [...]
Burn - Burn is an open source CD and DVD burning program that some have compared and said betters commercial software like Roxio’s Toast. Now I have Toast and its pretty good, but its very bulky. Burn, is a nice simple little app that will burn audio CD’s, data CD’s (for Mac, PC, Joilet, UDF, [...]
Don’t use tiscali. Seriously. Don’t. I do and I wish I didn’t. I got an email back on 29 July 2006 saying that my internet usage was excessive and that was my first warning. I got my second and final on 9 November 2006. On 8 December I got capped. My internet usage between 6pm [...]
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I came across a need to do this last night as I was trying to get my girlfriends new Macbook onto the wireless router I have here. So I logged on to the router and found Key 1 and told her to type it in. Much surprise did i get when it denied access. So [...]
Quicksilver - Its basically described as a way of creating functional sentences to carry out actions on your mac. You hit the key combo to bring up the window and start typing. At the basic level, its a great quick application loader, much quicker than spotlight. At its most complex, you can quickly select files [...]
