Category Archives: Computer and Internet

Internet Dog Feeder… feeds dog via Internet.

No, this isn’t slow news day… when a kid devotes his time to making a contraption like this, rather than sending me rude online messages because I’m whooping his ass on FIFA ‘09, then it’s certainly worth celebrating, and certainly … Continue reading

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Hands on with Windows 7

Only installed it this morning on the HP NC 6400 but decided to quickly post my initial impressions. The machine specs are pretty decent – Intel Core Duo @ 2GHz, 2.5GB of RAM, ATI X1300 GFX. The first thing that … Continue reading

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Drawing the line… between desirability and practicality

Having followed Sony’s latest ultra-portable notebook PC – the Vaio P – and seen a recent Engadget article about how disparagingly high the price-point is, I too have decided to write on the subject. Sony makes some brilliant stuff, but … Continue reading

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LaCie Hard Disk MAX (2TB)

Imagine my horror today when my trusty Seagate 500GB HDD died on me. Actually I began to suspect last night when I got back, switched on my drives, and noticed a “Write Fail” error..  oh dear, I thought… this cant … Continue reading

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Illegal downloaders to get warning letter in government clampdown

This is for real folks; finally got finalized on July 24th; apparently the top six UK ISPs have agreed to it and while the details aren’t still clear, it seems that these "illegal" downloaders will have 3 warning letters, and … Continue reading

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501 Error on Windows Live Writer

It was a strange error that – one minute I can edit my font type, the next I’m getting this error – and what was equally curious was the fact this: I could post blogs, add/delete texts etc, but I … Continue reading

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Apple [iPhone activation] servers down – many users unable to activate 3G iPhones.

The screen-shot below is one of a few errors that the user can encounter. Basically, it seems like due to a crazy amount of activation requests, the 100s of thousands of users that’ll be trying to simultaneously activate their 3G … Continue reading

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Goodbye Bill…

I was going to write about this yesterday, but kept putting it off. Right now I’m doing so study so need to get back while I’m still fresh off resting, but first a quick write-up on this rather important story: … Continue reading

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HTC Touch Pro

Nope. I don’t actually have this, I don’t think I will either – sour grapes aside, I do think it’s absolutely gorgeous but its simply too expensive, Windows Mobile – not really my cuppa, and I doubt they’ll be issuing … Continue reading

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