Spoken Like a Geek
The technology blog of Neil Thompson
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Vista Woes
Jan 30, 2008 15:12 - 0 Comments
My younger son got a new PC for Christmas and this was blessed with some flavour of Microsoft Vista which apart from requiring a new wireless card as Vista drivers weren’t available for the old one, was reasonably painless. Well that is apart from having to relearn where everything is that you have become so [...]
Google Reader Offline
Jan 22, 2008 22:57 - 0 Comments
As I migrate away more and more from desktop applications I have been trying a number of online services, the latest of which is Google Reader. As an RSS reader this web based solution is functional rather than easy to use. For example, there are no pop-ups to tell you when a feed has been [...]
iPod Touch Update – Update
Jan 19, 2008 12:35 - 0 Comments
Since my post yesterday about the iPod Touch update that add new applications and features to the device I have discovered that it also takes some things away. A couple of the existing applications were Calendar and Contacts which you could sync with Microsoft Outlook – not any more. It seems that this ability has [...]
iPod Touch Update
Jan 18, 2008 17:28 - 0 Comments
So the picture on the left is what my iPod Touch looked like after I had applied the software update announced at Macworld earlier in the week. The big question is, however, is it worth the £12 price tag that Apple have cheekily applied to it? I think the short answer is no, it’s [...]
BluLie
Jan 17, 2008 9:28 - 0 Comments
I was really excited when I saw advertised the Gear4 BluEye product as it seemed to offer the opportunity to have phone capabilities to my iPod Touch with an add-on smaller than an After Eight. Even better it also worked as a wired remote and had FM radio capabilities too – all for thirty [...]
My first "PC"
Jan 10, 2008 23:24 - 3 Comments
OK this was not strictly speaking “my” first PC but it was the first one that I got to use to do anything meaningful.
I was very lucky that the secondary school that I attended, some 30 years ago now, had links with the Rutherford Appleton labs and had a teletype connection to a mainframe [...]
Firefox extensions
Jan 6, 2008 18:29 - 1 Comment
Surfing the net last week I came across the following article on Firefox extensions (20 must-have Firefox extensions) and there are some real gems listed there. Rather than go through them all here (read the article) I wanted to highlight one which I think is superb.
I really like Firefox and switched a while back [...]
Domains
Jan 3, 2008 23:05 - 2 Comments
I was doing a search of domain names that included “neilthompson” in them and found that neilthompson.mobi had already been registered. Nothing too surprising about that but what really surprised me was that I had registered it and it was pointing to my (this) blog! It was at this point that I probably ought to [...]
