Computing and Tech

Lubitel 166B – Real Lomography Beckons

Following on from yesterday’s post – it’s been kind of interesting getting a feel for what all this Lomo stuff is about.  I don’t know what it is that draws me to the Lomography style exactly…  I think it must be the lack of any fixed rules, and the way it captures bits of life [...]

Lomographic Aspirations

Today, I had a happy accident.  Today, I accidentally (re)stumbled across the art of Lomography.  Today, I finally found a genuine use for my iPhone camera.  Today, I had a ‘Eureka’ moment.
Let me explain…
Photography is an art.  In the end, it’s all about the aesthetics.  Beautiful photos opportunities rear their heads in the most unlikely [...]

Installing OSX86 on Acer Aspire One – A few tips on where to go to find info…

For those who’ve had a look at my previous posts, you may now be interested in giving this a go yourself.  If you’re nervous, then don’t worry – it’s not THAT daunting to do.  There are some fantastic guides out there.  
The main problem with doing this is that there are a lot of different [...]

MicroMac Lives….

I’m always the same.  I get a device or gadget, and, when I’m getting used to it in the first few weeks, I always go into ‘What can I do with this?’ mode.  I’ll see what it can do, even if its things that I’d never use again.  I was happily playing around with Ubuntu [...]

Acer Aspire One A150L Review

Well, well, well… Recently, I decided that I’ve been spending too much time in my office.  I really like my iMac, but unfortunately, its basically a one-location machine, and I want to spend more time in other places, like chilling on the sofa with my Wife. I also wanted a portable internet device that [...]

Acer Aspire One

Just a quick note.  I’m sat in Cafe Nero chilling out and trying out a new netbook.  I’ve got to photograph my Nephew’s wedding today, so getting a few minutes of calm in before the chaos begins!  I’m shortly (next day or so) going to put a bit of a report up about the new [...]

Geocaching Official iPhone App – Now available on Apple App Store…

 
Finally, the official Geocaching.com iPhone app is available on the iPhone App Store.  It costs a grand total of £5.99 in the UK ($9.99 in the US).  The app promises to be the first to link directly into the Geocaching.com website and bring you real-time cache details based on your current GPS coordinates (unlike the [...]

RunKeeper – a great little iPhone App

Just a quick post about a nice piece of software I got for the iPhone today.  It’s called RunKeeper, and is an application that uses the iPhones built-in GPS to track you on a run or cycle ride or similar).  It works out your distance, average speed, and graphs your elevation, as well as plotting [...]

Official Geocaching.com iPhone App

After the last post I made, Geocaching.com have announced that they have submitted a Geocaching app to the Apple Appstore.  It’s currently awaiting approval, but should be available soon.  It will cost $9.99 (probably £5.99 in the UK).  It basically does something very similar to iGeocaching, but allows you to do it online, so is [...]

iPhone Geocaching and iGeocacher…

With my relatively recent aquisition of an iPhone (well, last few months anyway), I’ve found that I’ve been accessing www.geocaching.com a fair bit on it whilst out and about.  
Those who’ve tried geocaching will probably know that one of the major limiting factors to ‘on-the-go’ caching is accessing the information about each cache.  The original idea was [...]

Testing 1,2,3…

Here we go… This is my first post from my iPhone. Now I’m up to Wordpress v6.1, I can use the iPhone Wordpress app to post quickly while I’m out and about. Can even take pics and attach them directly! The wonders of modern technology etc etc.
Meanwhile, I’ve still got to get the [...]

Geocaching on the iPhone – Geopher Lite

Seems like the IS someone developing a Geocaching app for the iPhone.
http://geopherlite.blogspot.com/
At the moment it’s quite basic, with no GPX or LOC support, which means you have to enter coordinates manually.  Once it has support for those files, and support for saving cache details etc, then it could turn ito a nice little app.   I’ll [...]

SimplifyMedia media sharing service on iPhone 3G…

Well… it hasn’t taken long to post the first recommendation for an iPhone App (approximately 2 minutes actually!). This is definitely something I’d say is a ‘killer’ app for the iPhone 3G.
SimplifyMedia is a way of sharing your entire iTunes (or Winamp or Rhythmbox) library over your internet connection to your mobile devices such [...]

iPhone 3G Chatter

Right… I’ve kept quiet about this for quite a while now, as I wanted to have a few months of use under my belt for this piece of kit before i posted about it.
There’s been more stuff on the web recently about the iPhone (2G and 3G) than I care to think about. The [...]

Axeman, CCNP… :P

Well… I’ve managed it!
A week or so ago, I made it through the four CCNP exams (BSCI, BCMSN, ONT and ISCW – too many bleedin’ acronyms!), and I’m now fully qualified in the ways of Cisco Certified Network Professional.
Thankfully that’s it for another three years (at which time, I have to redo one [...]

Welcome back to my CCNA certification!

Blimey!
I’m knackered.   I’ve just completed Cisco exam 640-802 to recertify my CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) status.  Passed it with a score of 920 (out of 1000).  It’s hard… very hard, and the buggers make you take it every three years.  Next time, I’m not going to leave it so long, and I’m going [...]

Stacks Overlay Icons

On Leopard, one of the most annoying things about the new ’stacks’ feature (where folders dragged onto the dock get ‘fanned out’ when you click them), is that the icon that represents the stack is always the one that is first depending on how you sort the stack. For example, if you have [...]

OS X 10.5 – Leopard – Finally!

Yesterday, I checked the Alesis site, as I have religeously about once a fortnight, for a final version of the new drivers for my Alesis Multimix Firewire audio interface. You see… I’ve had OS X 10.5 Leopard waiting in the wings for a few months, ready to be unleashed on my iMac. However, [...]

Nokia 770 and iGo Ultrathin Bluetooth Keyboard

I use my Nokia 770 a lot. when I’m out and about and I don’t want to cart a laptop around, it’s a great form of internet access, if limited in a few ways. The ting that’s always got to me about it though, is t the text-entry interface. In the end, [...]

Slideshow Pro – A Review

You may have noticed something new on the site if you happen to call back here fairly regularly. On the sidebar of the site, there’s now a natty little flash slideshow running, showing a random selection of my photos. Underneath, there’s a link, which takes to you an altogether more fancy setup which [...]

Xbox Media Center (XMBC)

And so for Christmas, a new catagory for the site – Xbox Modding. In the last week, Game Stores in the UK have been selling pre-owned Xboxes (black brick Xbox 1s, not Xbox 360s!) for £19.95. A bargain if you ask me! A few years ago, when I got my Xbox 360, [...]

Mobile Broadband on Three – SSH access to home

Well!  I had a request a while back from somebody on a previous thread to ask me if the mobile broadband option provided by Three was ‘Full Internet Access’ and not just WWW access via a mobile connection.  I can confirm that, after having testing my home SSH connection via the Three Mobile Broadband, it [...]

4Gb!

Blimey – just upgraded my iMac to 4Gb.  That’s the most RAM I’ve ever had in any machine!
Not amazingly interesting, but a bit of a landmark nonetheless!

Nokia N73 on Three UK – Use as a Modem with Mobile Broadband

I’ve been playing (and in fact am currently) with using my N73 as a modem with my PC laptop. As I’ve said before, I’m on the Three UK mobile broadband add-on, which I wanted to use with the Nokia 770. Thing is, this weekend, I’m away from home, so got the impetus to [...]

Ipod Touch – First Impressions

Got my hands on somebody’s Ipod touch for the first time today. Very nice! You’ve probably already read about the iPhone and the touch everywhere, so I wont go through the features again here. Suffice to say, it’s very nice in use, and I’ll be investing in one at some point [...]

TVersity on XP on OS X on VMWare Fusion (phew..!)

Here I go again. Praising the abilities of this technological wonder I now own…
See that image above? Click on it for bigness. It’s an image of Windows XP running inside OS X, and acting as a TVersity transcoding media server to my Xbox 360 sitting downstairs. I set this up [...]

Fring on N73

No, that’s not a spelling mistake….
To elaborate – recently, in order to get my Three price plan over to 1Gb Data over Bluetooth modem (Mobile Broadband Lite), I had to change from X-Series silver to a non- X-series add-on. As a rule, this was not a problem, as I didn’t really use much [...]

Progress re:770 and N73 on Three?

Hmmmm.
This morning I tried something. Instead of a packet data connection on the 770, I set the connection to my N73 up as a ‘Data Call’. Now, I thought that a packet data connection would be the way to go, and still have that feelng, but aftert entering *99# into the phone number [...]

Nokia 770 and Nokia N73 as a Modem on Three ‘Mobile Broadband Lite’ – Problems!

I really like the 770. It’s really handy when I’m out and about for getting on the web and checking email or doing a bit of browsing. The one big downside of it all is that up until now, I’ve needed a WiFi connection nearby to be able to connect. Now that’s [...]

First Photos – Unpacking and Setting up the Aluminium (aluminum?) iMac

I thought I’d do the geeky thing and post a few pics of the great ‘unveiling’. I had to carry the box about 3/4 of a mile through Cardiff, and let me tell you – it isn’t as light as I was expecting!
Anyways. I got it home finally, and set about unpacking. [...]

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