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The Asus EEE PC One Day Later…
Feb 16, 2008 20:23 - 0 Comments
…and I had trashed it! Never happy unless I am tinkering I made one change too many last night. I am not sure whether it was the script to shut down the device when the lid is closed or a new tool to manage the simple interface but either way it caused the EEE to [...]
A Week With the Asus EEE PC
Feb 14, 2008 21:59 - 1 Comment
So I have had my EEE PC for a week now and thought that it would be a good opportunity to let you have my initial thoughts. For those that aren’t familiar with it the EEE is a Linux based, fully featured, high portable laptop for around £200. It is also tiny being just [...]
Sending Text Messages for Free
Feb 11, 2008 14:09 - 0 Comments
Well almost. If you have an Orange mobile phone SIM then it seems that you can send up to 30 texts per month for free from their website. Why would you bother? Well my main phone is on t-mobile but I keep a phone with an Orange SIM so that I can take advantage of [...]
Linux is Hard Work
Feb 7, 2008 14:19 - 0 Comments
So I received my Asus EEE PC yesterday and immediately set about playing with it and changing the interface. The device itself is just great and I’ll blog about it later but I wanted to share my thoughts on Linux first.
The EEE uses a customised version of the Debian distribution and out of [...]
eBay makes changes to feedback system
Feb 5, 2008 22:53 - 0 Comments
One of my biggest gripes about eBay has always been the feedback system and how it works – in fact I have written about it previously and often refer sellers to this post when they write to me asking for feed back. So I was interested to see on the BBC website today that [...]
Microsoft wants Yahoo!
Feb 1, 2008 16:51 - 0 Comments
So it is all over the web today that Microsoft are making a bid to purchase Yahoo no doubt in an effort to regain some of the ground lost to Google in the search space. How different it could have all been though. Microsoft were late in realising the power of the web and seem [...]
