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NTL Hell
Dec 7, 2005 8:30 - 0 Comments
I’ve been an NTL customer for a number of years now and until six months ago it was a relatively painless experience. A good example of my NTL experience is when a contractor dig through the cable in our garden leading to our house. This caused a complete loss of telephone, TV and broadband and [...]
Feeding the email Habit
Oct 21, 2005 21:52 - 1 Comment
I love the immediacy of email. To send off a message to a friend or colleague and get back something in minutes or hours rather than the days it would previously have taken to use snail mail. My kids know no other way. No longer do parents have to force their children to write their [...]
Windows Powered Smartphone (Part 2)
Sep 21, 2005 14:49 - 0 Comments
One of the great things about a Windows powered SmartPhone is the level of customisation and personalisation that is possible, particularly around the home screen.
As the buttons and screen are so small it makes sense to have as much available as early as possible, i.e. the home screen. Usually what is displayed is the carrier [...]
Windows Powered Smartphone (Part 1)
Sep 20, 2005 22:12 - 0 Comments
For reasons that are too complicated to explain here I have gone back to using my SPV E200 in place of my trusty old Nokia 6310i. It has been six months or so since I last used the SPV and abandoned it due to it’s poor battery life. I have since discovered that ALL modern [...]
Simple CAPTCHA for Greymatter
Aug 23, 2005 16:29 - 0 Comments
If you have read any of my previous posts about spam comment entries you will have felt my fustration coming through that a) this happens and b) that there seemed to be little to do about it. However, thanks to a post from Steve Conlan, I seem to have found a simple way of blocking [...]
Running Windows Applications from your MP3 Player
Aug 15, 2005 22:02 - 0 Comments
There was an article in this month’s PC Magazine that detailed a number of applications that you could run from a USB key. Some of these were fairly run of the mill but some were also pretty impressive and included: Firefox, Windows CE and, most amazingly of all, OpenOffice. I have tested all these out [...]
Perhaps not…
Aug 11, 2005 13:11 - 3 Comments
You know when you think you have had a great idea and then you find that you were probably very wrong? Well after my last post Comments please? I am beginning to regret turning the bloody things on.
Since the comments page went live I have received three comments for each of the last two entries. [...]
Dell Hell
Jul 3, 2005 13:50 - 0 Comments
I recently had the opportunity to purchase a large amount (for our business at any rate) of kit, including six laptops and five servers. Having bought Dell kit previously and had no problems we elected to do so again. It was a tourturous experience that I would not wish upon anyone, friend and foe alike.
Once [...]
Free Quick Reference Cards
Jun 25, 2005 16:34 - 0 Comments
For those that don’t have the time or attention span to read a manual a quick reference card can be a short cut to gaining the information you need in the shortest possible amount of time. Unfortunately these are not always available and so you are left having to pick through the manual to find [...]
Other peoples code
May 30, 2005 22:24 - 0 Comments
Working in the software industry for the last fifteen years I have seen a lot of code written by other developers, some good, some bad. Inevitably you can’t always get the code to do what you want it to do and frustrations spill over and the temptation is to put an acerbic note in the [...]
