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Jul/08

New Splash Image 8

Filed Under Website at 6th July 2008 17:06 by

New new image near the top of this website is out. This makes the total to 8.

04

Jul/08

Nokia Buys Symbian

Filed Under Mobile Phone at 4th July 2008 16:17 by

Recently Nokia has intended to buy out the rest of the shares held by other parties in the company. Whilst it is not the greatest OS it does get the job done. The problem I have had with Symbian on … Continue reading →

30

Jun/08

CrystalDiskInfo

Filed Under Hardware, Windows at 30th June 2008 18:00 by

S.M.A.R.T technology has been in hard drives for years now and is used to report and monitor disk health. Life Hacker wrote an article on CrystalDiskInfo. I downloaded and tried it out and it was really good. All the information … Continue reading →

25

Jun/08

iPhone 3G Thoughts

Filed Under Mobile Phone at 25th June 2008 0:16 by

Overview I’m looking to change phones this year and have been eagle eyeing on new phones. I’m not in a hurry and thought I’d share my concerns on the latest iPhone 3G. Background I hardly spend over £20 a month … Continue reading →

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Jun/08

Firefox 3 Colour Profile

Filed Under Web Browser at 22nd June 2008 17:39 by

Firefox 3 has enhanced colour profiles which makes colours of pictures look better and less faded. This feature is catching up to Safari’s ability to render pictures and is not turned on by default in Firefox for the reason below. … Continue reading →

18

Jun/08

My First Arduino

Filed Under Arduino, Hardware at 18th June 2008 11:28 by

I got my last piece of hardware to finally start using my LCD and Accelerometer. It’s funny how the cheapest, smallest part was the hardest to find. I got some pin headers and soldered them onto the board so it … Continue reading →

16

Jun/08

Asus EEE BIOS Update

Filed Under Linux at 16th June 2008 2:21 by

I was impressed to see BIOS updates in the update manager. It automatically downloaded, unpacked and installed the BIOS firmware without any intervention by the user except when it had completed the update.

12

Jun/08

Firefox 3 Release Date Announced

Filed Under News, Web Browser at 12th June 2008 12:32 by

Finally! The new version of my favourite browser has said the new version will be available on June 17th 2008. Using the Release Candidate(RC) on Ubuntu I’m still worried about some of my plugins/addons not available for the new version … Continue reading →