2005
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By Mike on November 25, 2005
When I heard that the weather forecast was going to be snow today, I thought ‘yeah yeah a couple of flakes and that will be it’ – How surprised was I to see that not only was there a large blanket of snow covering everything, but big fat flakes were still falling at 8.00 this [...]
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By Mike on November 24, 2005
I have had my website running Google Analytics since it was first announced – I must confess that I haven’t really gotten around to having a look at it properly – but I do have to say that I am very impressed with it (as you would with Google).
Coincidentally over the last few months [...]
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By Mike on November 24, 2005
I came across FolderShare the other day. This is a great little application that enables you to synchronise folders across various computers. The great thing about this is that you can do this over the internet AND is both PC & Mac compatible!
Simply install the application on each computer, set-up a share folder [...]
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By Mike on November 24, 2005
A while ago I found a very good feature on HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere. This is something that I have wanted to do for a while, but never got a round to figuring out how to actually do it.
The instructions are very easy to follow as you are guided by a video [...]
Posted in Apple
By Mike on November 21, 2005
I was in Manchester for the weekend, and coincidentally Apple’s new UK store opened on Saturday in the Trafford Centre – I of course had to make a trip over. Not the biggest store in the world – but it certainly was very busy!
I had a play with the iPod Nano again – the [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, store
By Mike on November 7, 2005
I have been playing with frontrow on my Mac Mini – and am loving it. Although it is only officially available for the new iMac G5s you don’t have to look very hard to get it for yourself.
Although the Apple remote control functionality doesn’t work – the rest does – and its wonderfully simple [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, software
By Mike on November 4, 2005
If you are running out of space on your Mac Mini and thinking of expanding – now could be the time. Apple UK have a special offer on the Iomega MiniMax until the end of the year where you can get the 200GB model for the price of the 160GB for only £139! Could [...]
Posted in Other | Tagged Apple, storage
By Mike on November 4, 2005
For those of you who may remember, way back in February I talked about the modern-day ant farm called the Antquarium and then subsequently went on to purchase one and posted about it in The Ants have moved in!.
Well it is now some 9 months later, and am sad to say that the numbers have [...]
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By Mike on November 4, 2005
I have heard about this principle before, but this is the first time that I have actually seen a commercial product – and it’s actually available in the UK! MicroLink® dLAN® Audio allows you to stream audio around your house using your own electrical circuit.
Although simple to set-up you actually need to purchase two [...]
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By Mike on November 1, 2005
I have just been looking at the stats for igadgetlife.com and comparing this year against last. It would appear that traffic is on the increase – although there is a blip for the last couple of months due to lack of regular posting on my part.
The reason for this analysis? well I guess [...]
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By Mike on November 1, 2005
Apple have released the latest update of its Tiger operating system.
There are a whole heap of bug fixes – one that has been annoying me since I bought a webcam for my Mac is the “No data has been received for the last 10 seconds” alert that could often appear when participating in a video [...]
Posted in Other | Tagged Apple, osx
By Mike on October 31, 2005
Now this is something that I think that Harvey would love…
The Soniks are a range of characters that have been designed to produce a sound frequency that is above that of the likes of me and you – but audible for our four-legged little friends! Meaning that your dog can squeak away to his [...]
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By Mike on October 31, 2005
Turn everyday english into chav with Chavelfish – give it a go – it’s great!
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By Mike on October 28, 2005
This image is updated every 30 seconds when the camera is online.
For more information about Harvey visit his: Dogster Page or his Flickr Page
The picture was taken using a D-Link DCS-5300w Internet Camera.
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By Mike on October 25, 2005
I have finally gotten around to transferring the hours of video that I recorded on my travels to the USA last year onto my Mac so that I can edit and burn to DVD.
For those of you who know the Mac Mini comes with iLife ‘05 which includes iMovie HD. It is such an [...]
Posted in Other | Tagged Apple, software
By Mike on October 22, 2005
I got my Network Disc through the post a couple of days ago – this meant that I was able to connect my PS2 to the internet and play online games. Well one online game in-fact – Hardware Online Arena, the game that came on the network disc.
After following a very easy wizard [...]
Posted in Consoles
By Mike on October 22, 2005
As you may have noticed I finally got Google Ads up and running on my site. I guess this will now be an incentive for me to keep adding content to the site, if I want to get that cash rolling in – yeah right! I guess even if it only covers my [...]
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By Mike on October 20, 2005
Ive been very quiet on the posting front recently because I have been busy with my latest gadget – a slimline PS2 which I had for my birthday at the beginning of the month. I have been without a console for a year after I gave up my original PS2 last year (long story) [...]
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By Mike on September 29, 2005
DLink the people that bring you HarveyCam have announced a 3G version of its Internet Camera.
Basically I believe that the camera is pretty much identical to my DCS-5300w, but means that you are able to stream live video over any 3G handset that can play 3GPP media. Basically this also means QuickTime & RealPlayer.
This [...]
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By Mike on September 23, 2005
Well, I can’t believe that it has been nearly a month since I last updated this site, where has the time gone? I feel very bad for leaving you all hanging..
It’s also this time last year that I was on by big adventure of the West Coast of America.. awww happy memories, also sad [...]
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By Mike on August 26, 2005
After much waiting my K750i finally arrived yesterday.
What a great little phone – it is taking me a little while to get used to the different interface and keyboard layout – but I’m getting there!
I love the camera on this phone – the 2 mega pixel is great. One of the features that I [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged k750i, sony ericsson
By Mike on August 24, 2005
Always wanted a personal massager at hand for those long days at the office? Well now you can! You can turn your phone into your very own massager by installing Phone Purr.
If that is not enuff then you can also control the vibration of a friends mobile via SMS!
The program is free [...]
Posted in Mobiles
By Mike on August 24, 2005
My K750i is finally on its way after a fortnight wait. It is currently in transit and expect to have it in my hands tomorrow!
I guess that the £4.99 deal of 200 mins (doubled to 400 by Orange for 6 months) was a very popular offer! Good things come to those who wait.. Not [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged k750i, sony ericsson
By Mike on August 24, 2005
GVisit is a great site that enables you to see where in the world people are who look at your website. It uses the power of Google Maps and Location Track to generate the last 20 visits to your site.
The site is free to use or send the creator a small donation to see [...]
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By Mike on August 18, 2005
WOW – you have to check this out! Flickr Graph is an amazing visual tool to show links between contacts in Flickr.
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By Mike on August 18, 2005
Spell with Flickr is a great website that enables you to spell words using images from Flickr:
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By Mike on August 17, 2005
It’s been a week and I still don’t have my new mobile yet! I phoned the supplier today to find out the situation – they advised that stocks for the Sony Ericsson K750i were limited and that they were expecting some in next Tuesday!
Oh I hate waiting for things! Good things [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged k750i, sony ericsson
By Mike on August 11, 2005
I have started to have a play with Flickr, as you will probably have noticed from the addition to the homepage. It’s a great way to be able to store and share your photographs.
I took a look at this ages ago, but didnt really spend very long on the site – not really sure [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on August 10, 2005
It’s that time of year when my mobile contract has come to an end – it’s time to get something new!
I have been keeping my eye on the latest Smartphones, as my last two mobiles have been SPV’s.. The new C550 was a possibility, but to be honest it isn’t any different from the [...]
Posted in Mobiles | Tagged k750i, sony ericsson
By Mike on August 9, 2005
Microsoft are finally expected to release a new version of its popular messaging product MSN Messenger for the Mac TODAY!
With lots of improved features to bring the Mac version in line with the latest PC version, such as animated emoticons and user photos – but sadly there is no sign of video chats!
Download MSN Messenger [...]
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 25, 2005
I see that Google have released a toolbar for Firefox.
I’m pleased to see that it includes the very handy Spellcheck which I use when creating these articles in MovableType – which was sadly lacking from Googlebar.
Nice one Google!
Posted in Other
By Mike on July 25, 2005
I am now the proud owner of an iPod Mini!
It was all a bit sudden and unplanned…
As I knew that my holiday to Portugal was going to a nice relaxing time, I of course needed some music. I had planned to use my C500 as my media player as I did for my trip [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, ipod
By Mike on July 25, 2005
All has been a bit quiet recently, as I have been away basking in the Portugal sun for 9 days, in a rather nice town called Albufeira. It’s so great to be back to the usual dull, drab, wet British Summer… NOT! In typical fashion I hear that there was a bit of a heat-wave [...]
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By Mike on July 6, 2005
The hit US show Lost will finally be shown here in the UK from August 10th on Channel 4.
This is nearly a year after I saw all the promotional billboards during my trip to the USA last September! I have heard so much about it during my trip and on various websites since, and [...]
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By Mike on June 17, 2005
I found a brilliant plug-in for iPhoto yesterday called Photon. It enables you to export photos into MovableType, TypePad, Blojsom or WordPress.
As I’m a user of Movable Type (for this site) I gave it a go. It was easy to install and even easier to configure.
I have created a new MT Blog, So [...]
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By Mike on June 16, 2005
The whole point of this exercise was so that we could make use of modern technology to keep in touch with my other-halves family some 4 & a half hours away up country. It seemed a pretty simple solution, as we both have computers and broadband – all we both needed to get was [...]
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By Mike on June 13, 2005
The Carphone Warehouse are now starting to offer full-length movies from Sony on 128mb memory cards at a cost of £24.99! The first to be released is Spider-man 2.
Can you believe that? Who in their right mind would pay that amount of money for a film that you can now get on DVD [...]
Posted in Mobiles
By Mike on June 3, 2005
AOpen have issued a press release to announce a PC equivalent of the Mac mini. A summary of its features are listed below:
AOpen’s Mini PC is powered by Intel Pentium M processors with built-in DVD-RW and 2.5-inch hard drive. Its power is the equivalent to that of a desktop PC, and meets the computing [...]
Posted in Apple
By Mike on June 3, 2005
While I was on a roll with all things webcam, I started to look into trying to get my Wireless Internet Camera connected to my Mac.
The problem is that D-Link in all their wisdom have devised some proprietary Active-x Plug-in that means that the streaming video output by the camera is only viewable via Internet [...]
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By Mike on June 1, 2005
After the hassles of finding a Mac compatible webcam, I believed that things would be plain sailing from now on – how wrong was I….
I plugged the new device into my Mac Mini and installed the drivers found on the accompanying CD. ..So far so good.. I launched the Logitec application that had been [...]
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