Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Technology, Video on Aug 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Acronyms are going to be your ’stock and trade’ if you want to understand the digital video space…
This is going to be my 3 (5?, 15? :-P) minute guide to various tasks I generally need and the software (some free) one needs to do them…
OK, rushing right along…
If you have:
an original DVD you want to [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, Technology, The Main Thread on Feb 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Being amongst the last of a dying breed - a smoker…
I started a little group on Flickr - The Tobacconist - which is gathering a some momentum…
Some of the Tobacconist’s shop-fronts I have seen over the years are the most pleasant, interesting, amusing, or just well presented… and from a photo in the group [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Technology on Feb 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Well, ‘bit the bullet’ and went ‘Pro‘ - big decision - £12 a year :P
Was trying to find out how to do those cute little comment replies - you know, replying to a specific persons comment quoting their buddy icon - like this.
Nothing simpler as it turns out:
use Firefox (don’t tell me you still use [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, England, Technology, The Main Thread on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Had a haircut today. Just what you needed to know hey?
Was looking a little like the ‘wild man from Borneo’. And regularly getting up and thinking ‘ooh… bad hair morning’… Of more concern was that one morning my Uncle Eric might not recognise me and call the police, or something worse…
It was lovely day in [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, England, Mini Rants, Technology on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Having only recently entered the world of in-car GPS navigation I have to say I’m reasonably impressed… and on a number of levels.
Firstly, having been the ‘uber-geek‘ in the past (and modest too…), I’m pleased that on this occasion that I haven’t had to contribute much to research and development in this particular area. You [...]
Posted in Cultural, SocioPolitical, Technology, The Main Thread on Jan 25th, 2008 No Comments »
A ‘revolution’ is loosely defined (skimming over the variety of definitions quoted at Wikipedia) as action(s) which result in socio-political change. Or, less specifically, by Cambridge’s Advanced Learners Dictionary, as “a very important change in the way that people do things”…
An ‘evolution’ is, again loosely, generally agreed to mean change or process, often with an [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Mini Rants, Technology, The Main Thread on Jan 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Well, having been using Vista for about a month (it was OEM’d on a machine I got - I didn’t really choose it) I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t go out and buy it per se.
Service Pack 1 is on its way and by all account this boosts the speed quite a bit - original announcement [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Technology, The Main Thread on Jan 9th, 2008 5 Comments »
Well the latest gadget research was to solve the in-car music problem without having to spend hundreds on an after-market stereo or cd/mp3 changer…
I have had previous experience with FM transmitter solutions using MP3 players but it was always a less than optimal solution - with the power of the FM transmitter (and hence [...]
Posted in Technology, The System Admin Zone on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Emulation is one thing and virtualisation is another.
And virtualisation is now mainstream with good, free, tools available for all three main host operating systems (OS): Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.
For Windows and Mac you can use MS Virtual PC (in reality on a Mac OSX, PowerPC system, this is an emulator of course).
VirtualBox, also free, [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Building Websites, Technology, The Main Thread on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Well today, or more precisely what’s left of it in the US, the 4th of October, is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. Neat… why haven’t we gone to Mars yet?
Off to TechCrunch40 (thanks to ‘mac’ for his observations) where one of the things which caught my eye was that there were a [...]