Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread on May 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Well it happened today - change-over of Internet service providers - affectionately known in the industry in Australia as ‘provider churn’.
All good so far..
ordered 29April2007 on free ADSL2 offer (see previous post)
advise on provisioning for 15May2007 on 02May2007
provisioned today - 15May2007
I had a funny feeling this morning about how I would be advised I had [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
You know how it is, machine has borked, you need to re-boot but you have 18 tabs open in firefox that you *need* :)
Just change the Firefox startup options from ‘Show my home page’ to ‘Show my windows and tabs from last time’ and each new session in Firefox will be just like you never [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, SecondLife, The Main Thread, Video on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Whilst continuing to check out the ‘Internet lanscape’ I’ve come across some more goodies…
In addition to my previous post on media conversion check out IsoBuster (free & paid versions) and this tutorial if you need to convert any old VCDs to DVD.
Don’t forget to keep looking up the available stuff in the audio and video [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread on May 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Having now used MediaMonkey for a couple of weeks, successfully customised it for use with my iRiver S10, and enjoyed re-tagging most of my MP3 ID3 tags with album art properly, it was time to support the developers: so I purchased the gold version this morning and this is my shameless ‘plug’ for them.
The gold [...]
Posted in Building Websites, The Main Thread on May 5th, 2007 No Comments »
In a previous post I covered a group of (mostly) free tools which I find useful during web development. Time has moved on so it’s time for an update.
First the tools I referred to earlier:
Pixvue. Unfortunately this is no longer being maintained (and that’s exactly what the web link says..). I’m still using it for [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, The Main Thread on May 4th, 2007 No Comments »
..and the tools you’ll need to actually use the stuff you legally own..
My first experience with music DRM (Digital Rights Management) finds me agreeing with much negative comment about it out there on the Internet..
Being a Bigpond customer (not for much longer) I decided to give Bigpond Music a go.. seemed an ok deal.. [...]