Archive for the 'Computers' Category

I Want to Wii

29/12/2006

I’m not much of a game player, computer games anyway. If you trawl back through the archives of this site you’ll notice it is a topic that is noticeably absent. I was bought a console once as a present (a PS1), used it a few times and then it got stuck in the [...]

Bill Gates for President

30/11/2006

I had to post this, found via the ever-amazing Kottke (I’m going to get a shortcut key for inserting his link), this has to be the funniest thing I’ve read in ages, courtesy of Dilbert creator Scott Adams:
For my president I want a mixture of Mother Teresa, Carl Sagan, Warren Buffet, and Darth Vader. Bill [...]

Online Security

14/10/2006

As someone who seems to know something about IT, I get asked a lot of questions by friends, family and work colleagues about anything technical, from what digital camera/printer/PC to buy through to what’s causing a problem on their computers and how to do whatever in Word.
One of the things I get asked a lot [...]

Hard Drive Hell

22/08/2006

This article on this BBC isn’t the first one I’ve seen warning about disposing of your old IT equipment securely, but it raises the issue again, and it’s an issue a lot of people seem to be unaware of. Everybody seems to have been scared by the constant reports of viruses, tojans and hackers [...]

Wallowing Windows

14/08/2006

Does anyone else think they should delay the launch of Windows Vista until they can streamline it a little more? The minimum requirements are as follows:

800 Mhz processor
512 Mb RAM
20 Gb Hard Disk Drive
15 Gb free space
SVGA (800×600)
CD-ROM drive

Those are fairly high, especially when you consider XP Home will run on:

233 Mhx processor (300 [...]

New Hardware Setup

19/07/2006

I’ve been splashing out on some new hardware to help get me away from my desk. I have a laptop as my main machine, but’s plugged into so many external devices that it’s become stationary, because I can’t be bothered fighting the cables, rearing like snakes to try and entangle me (although the benefit [...]

Firefox Tip

12/07/2006

As this is so unbelievably easy, and made such a huge difference, I thought I’d write it down in case it vanishes from elsewhere and someone else is suffering the problem.
The Problem
Every time I tried to download in firefox it would take an ice age to even start the download, completely locking it up and [...]

Evolution in Action

6/02/2006

It seemed to me, not too long ago, that most of the obvious web applications, applications I’ve slowly been using more and more, were already in place and that we had market leaders that were difficult to topple. I’m not talking about Internet Explorer versus Firefox, nor any paid applications, many of these suckers [...]

Password Protected

31/01/2006

It seems that online security will take another turn for worst this year (unless Microsoft’s new Windows Vista OS has taken security to a whole new level, which I doubt), with criminals finding even more scams and loopholes with which to try and part us from our money. Generally speaking all the scaremongering is [...]

From Topfield to DVD

8/01/2006

A while back I bought a Topfield TF5800 PVR to allow me to watch and record Freeview digital TV channels. I’ve been very impressed with it, the picture quality on digital TV, and the Topfield in general, is excellent, the dual tuners very handy and it’s very easy to use.
One of the things [...]