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Launching Otaku Gadgets
After taking a minor break from blogging in 2008, I’ve been working even harder than ever in 2009. What has really spurred me on has been the success of Windows 7 News, that I run jointly with Martin from gHacks. Having an official blogging business partner is great as two brains are better than one, [...]
Mobile Broadband Speed In Your Hands
The Broadband market is a battle field. Not the one fought with guns and swords, but, the one which uses mobile broadband speeds and enticing offers. Top broadband suppliers, like O2, Virgin Media, BT, Orange, T Mobile, 3 and Vodafone, fight their way out to woo consumers, with various attractive broadband packages.
The Promise…
Internet access speed [...]
Migrated To New Server Over The Weekend
I’ve had to move servers again and the migration was completed over the weekend. I’d like to thank my new hosts WiredTree for a very professional move, which had no major hiccups. Already users should see major speed improvements on the site, which will increase over the coming weeks as we tweak the server.
I decided [...]
Top Five iPhone Games
After weeks of deliberating I finally ordered, not one, but two iPhone 3G S – one for me and one for the new Mrs Blair. They should be arriving next week, and I’m already creating a list of apps I want to install. Portable video games are hot as a pistol, and the [...]
Windows 7 Pre-Orders Start Tomorrow
From tomorrow individuals in the US, Canada and Japan will be able to pre-order Windows 7 and save up to $100 off the full prices. Microsoft haven’t set an end date for the offer, merely stating that they have a sales target in mind and that they will pull the offer once that has [...]
AntiVirus And AntiSpamBee Plugins For WordPress
Last week my server was attacked by a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack for about 5 days, which took my sites down for about 4 hours. My host liquidweb responded brilliantly and although they couldn’t stop the attack, they tweaked my server so that it could handle excess load from the attack.
The incident made [...]
My Eyes Have Been Opened To The Power Of Twitter
I have to confess that until last month I tried to ignore twitter because I thought it was a waste of time. I was convinced that there was no real value in twitter and that it was another distraction like facebook that I didn’t need. However, just as facebook turned out to be a very [...]
Win a LG 42″ LCD TV Or £250
THE LG UK Blog team are currently running two cool competitions. Both end soon so you need to act fast to enter!
The first competition gives you a chance to win a 42″ HD Ready LCD Television. The LF7700 is LG’s first HD Ready 1080p LCD TV with built-in Freesat tuner, supporting over 140 digital TV [...]
Digg Ads Doomed To Fail
I had to check the date today to check it wasn’t 1st April when I saw the announcement from Digg for Digg Ads. This has got to be one of the worst thought out new ad programmes.
Digg Ads are displayed inline with comments on Digg, and the more times an ad is dugg, the less [...]
BT Broadband Upgrading Users To 20Mb For Free
BT Broadband have just announced that starting this summer it will be offering speeds of up to 20Mb to customers for free using ADSL2+ technology. They new speeds will be available to all new customers, and to existing customers if they sign up to a new 12 month contract.
BT Broadband are being squeaky clean about [...]
Windows 7 To Launch October 22nd
Microsoft confirmed yesterday that Windows 7 will be launched on October 22nd. to aviod a total halt to the PC market, customers buying new PCs this summer will be able to upgrade to Windows 7 via the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program, which will provide a special offer for users wanting to upgrade to Windows [...]
Find Free Laptop Broadband Deals In The UK
A recent trend in the UK broadband market is the giving away of free laptops to new broadband users. The first ISP to give away free laptops was Carphone Warehouse, and many other ISPs have since followed their lead. As with many ‘free’ deals you have to ask yourself, what are you giving up in [...]
Best MP3 Tagging Tools
We Recommend! FixTunes To Organise and Fix Your Music Automatically!
I have a big music collection, totalling nearly 30k tracks all stored on my Windows Home Server. I’ve spent many, many hours over the years tagging and organising my collection so that it’s easy to find tracks wherever they are played e.g. on my media centers, [...]
What Mobile OS Should I Choose: Apple or Android?
I’ve been using my Sony Ericsson X1 running Windows Mobile 6.1 since around October. It’s a great corporate phone with fantastic Microsoft Exchange support, but once I leave the office I don’t use it and I really want a phone that has some cool apps, games and a good browser.
I’ve just received in the post [...]
Tweetable Twitter Plugin For Wordpress – Excellent!
I’ve just added a new plugin to the WordPress Plugins I use on this site. Previously I used the Twitter Tools plugin to create new tweets whenever I created a new post. However, I hated the way it added ‘New blog post’ to the start of all my tweets as I think this put people [...]
May 2009: Plugins Used On This Site
Every now and then when requested I do a post listing all the plugins that I use on this site. The most recent request has come from Philip Churchill who runs the fantastic MS Windows Home Server site.
Here are the 35 plugins in use on this site. If you have any suggestions for new plugins [...]
Online Poker In A 3-D Environment
When you think of online poker, what do you typically think of? Do you think of 2-d table images with each player represented by 2 cards, a nickname, and sometimes an avatar? Well for those looking for something a little more aesthetically pleasing in their poker game, might I suggest you take a look at [...]
Watch Barcelona V Man Utd Champions League Final Online
Tonight’s the big one! I’ve been waiting for Barcelona to meet Man Utd in the Champions League Final all season. It’s going to be absolutely amazing game, pitting the two best teams in Europe against each other when they are both playing at the top of their games.
Normally I’d have some friends over to watch [...]
Windows Vista SP2 Available For Download
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 has just been added to Microsoft’s download site. SP2 includes additional support for 64 bit processors from VIA and all the security updates and fixes released since Windows Vista SP1.
Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The update adds support for additional hardware and [...]
Samsung LED 7000 TV Sets A New Standard In Image Quality
Readers who are based in the UK will have noticed a (very) rich media campaign running on the site for the last week or so from Samsung promoting their new LED TVs. The Samsung LED 7000 is one of the thinnest and clearest TVs available on the market.
LED backlighting overcomes two of the problems that [...]
