Archive for March, 2006
Olympian Blogger: Wanted Nation To Compete For
Jonathan Phillips aged 33 has no particular sporting ability, but thanks to a bet with his mates he is on the lookout for a country to compete for in the 2012 London Olympics. He can’t compete for the UK as apparently the government doesn’t want another Eddie The Eagle embarrassing the nation in its [...]
Blue Peter Suspend Badge Privileges In Response To eBay Sales
In response to recent sales of Blue Peter badges on eBay, the TV show has just suspended all badge holder privileges like free entry to attractions until they work out a way to stop the sale of badges on eBay. All seems a bit drastic to me, and I feel sorry for all the [...]
Improved iPod Mixing Decks
Seven years ago at my brother’s 30th birthday I borrowed my mate’s CD mixing decks, where were fantastic as they were so portable. I’ve always wanted my own set of decks, and I’m tempted to splash out on Numark’s new iDJ2 iPod mixing decks, which unlike its predecessor only requires one iPod rather [...]
First UK Music No.1 Just From Download Sales Alone
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley is expected to become the first music single in the UK to hit number 1 from just download sales. According to HMV it's the fastest-selling music download ever.
I'd love to see some up-to-date stats on what percentage of sales are now accounted for by downloads. I don't think I've purchased a [...]
Gizmondo Exec Loses Another Car
The poor old Gizmondo didn’t stand a chance with idiots like this running the company. After writing off his Ferrari Enzo last month, Stefan Eriksson of Gizmondo has now lost his Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which is one of my favourite cars as I work very near to the new McLaren super-factory so I see [...]
Apple Vs Apple Legal Battle
I've never really understood how an Apple could be a trademark, but Apple Computer Inc and Apple Corps Ltd are due to face off in the courtroom in a case involving Apple's iTunes music store, which violates an agreement intended to keep the U.S.-based computer company out of the music business.
Apple Corps is owned by [...]
How Good Is Your Aim?
I hope they install one of these at work. Within these urinals is a pressure-sensitive display pad which is used to control interactive games. The target is small to encourage guys to improve hygiene.
Imagine how much you would have to drink over the course of a day so you could have a go [...]
Purchased Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
I’m getting a bit bored of Project Gotham 3, so I’ve just picked up a copy of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for the Xbox 360. Tried holding out for as long as possible, but it seemed silly to only have one game for my Xbox 360 that I play. Haven’t played it yet [...]
Nokia N80 Available April 20th On Vodafone
It’s almost here. The Nokia N80 will be available from Vodafone UK on April 20th. I can’t wait to get this phone as I’m certain I will be able to find a way to make VoIP calls using the Wi-Fi. I also think it will be my last phone upgrade for a [...]
iPods Added To The Basket Of Goods Used To Track Inflation
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the UK are adding iPods to the basket of goods used to track inflation and price changes in the UK, replacing items such as slippers, personal CD players and chocolate biscuits.
As well as MP3 players, music downloads are also being added into the mix, to present a more [...]
PayPal for mobile in beta
eBay’s online payment service PayPal launched a mobile payment service that includes person-to-person money transfers and “Text To Buy,” which allows users to order products through SMS that they see advertised “on a poster, in a magazine, at an event.” PayPal’s mobile debut has long been expected, but the Text To Buy feature was a [...]
Congratulations On The Silver Medal Martyn – Now For The Olympics!
Not a lot to say today as I’ve been keeping one eye on the Commonwealth Games as my ‘little’ cousin was competing and he did very well winning a Silver Medal in the High Jump.
For those of you who have no idea what the Commonwealth Games are its for countries who basically used to be [...]
February Competition Winner: It's Abe Again!
No, it’s not a fix and Abe does actually exist! Like they say – you have to be in it to win it and Abe posted the best suggestion.
Congratulations mate and let me know if want more Amazon vouchers to go towards your nano. I think you should have enough to buy one [...]
Screenshots Of My XBMC Setup
I know I keep harping on about XBMC but given that Xbox’s can be picked up so cheaply on eBay now there is no cheaper way to build a fully-functional media center. Here are some screenshots of my setup in response to chall5’s request for screenshots of my setup and also to hopefully encourage [...]
Should I Get A Hardware Firewall?
I've been thinking recently about getting a hardware firewall as in my mind it should offer a better level of protection for my home network (currently I have 2 PCs, a Xbox 360 and 2 Modded Xboxs running XBMC connected to a Netgear WPN-824 router), whilst freeing up resources on my PCs.
It just seems [...]
Buy MP3 Tracks For $0.10
When I copied my CD collection to my computer something weird happened with some of my tracks, and when they play back the audio cuts out and it sounds like a radio is playing for a few seconds.
This was really bugging me on one of my favourite tracks so I decided to replace it but [...]
SMS 007 – Encrypt Your SMS Messages
A new SMS encryption service is now available. The service has been developed by CircleTech, s.r.o., a Czech software corporation. The Java (J2ME) application, which can run on majority of current mobile phones, uses encryption standard AES and user-derived keys to securely encrypt the SMS communication between parties which use it.
SMS 007 has been [...]
