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By Mike on June 20, 2006
Yes you did read the title right – Sir Elton John played at the Somerset County Cricket Club in Taunton on Sunday.
Taunton, the sleepy county town of Somerset managed to pull of a major event by having the legend that is Sir Elton John perform at the towns cricket ground. I have to say [...]
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By Mike on June 15, 2006
I have just downloaded the lastest beta version of Flock Browser
This is a test post direct from the blogging feature of Flock.
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Blogged with Flock
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By Mike on May 25, 2006
MacZOT.com Fans want Pzizz because ‘According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation and its effect on work performance may be costing U.S. employers some $18 billion each year in lost productivity. Another study pushes this cost to over $100 billion.’ – link to full article
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By Mike on May 21, 2006
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.
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By Mike on April 28, 2006
Channel4 now have the complete first series of Lost available for download from their website costing only 99p per episode! Episodes one and two are currently available for free until 11th May.
Future episodes from the much anticipated Season Two will be available online a week after transmission on Channel 4.
Sadly the service only supports [...]
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By Mike on April 21, 2006
Some more of my Flickr photos have been used in one of Schmaps City guides – this time for Los Angeles, this follows news that 3 of my pictures had been selected for their Las Vegas guide.
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By Mike on April 7, 2006
MacZOT are turning out to be a very interesting website for Mac users to keep a daily eye on.. The other day they gave away 5 thousand copies of AppZapper after bloggers successfully posted links back to the site to drive down the price by $0.05 a link!
They currently have a MysteryZOT – where [...]
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By Mike on April 5, 2006
As I mentioned previously, some of my Flickr photos had been selected for inclusion into a couple of the new Schmap City Guides. Well it turns out that 3 images from my Las Vegas trip have actually been included:
Flamingo Hotel
Paris Las Vegas
The Venetian
Not bad for some quick holiday snaps!
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By Mike on April 3, 2006
Have you guys been over to MacZOT recently? They are attempting to give away 1,000 copies of AppZapper absolutely free.
The catch is that the supplier will reduce the normal cost of the application by $0.05 for every link posted to the giveaway. This means that 259 links are needed.. What a great [...]
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By Mike on March 1, 2006
Launching on 22nd March 2006 Schmap is a easy to use piece of freeware packed with features and functions that bring city guides to life!
With integrated maps, photos, reviews and online content Schmap gives you complete freedom to explore places of interest within your favourite city.
There will be 30 US City Guides and 30 European [...]
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By Mike on February 1, 2006
A while ago I downloaded and installed Tor & Privoxy on my Mac. For those of you who don’t know Tor is a tool to enable you to anonymize your web browsing and Privoxy is a proxy server that has advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy.
Check out ShowMyIP.com to see the what information can [...]
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By Mike on February 1, 2006
It would seem that PC users are trying to emulate more and more characteristics of an Apple Mac as each day goes by. The latest is TopDesk – which is a Windows version of OSX’s Expose.
If people want interfaces like that – why don’t they just go and buy a Mac? You know [...]
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By Mike on January 26, 2006
Graphical user interfaces (GUI’s) are now common place – found in your TV, mobile phone, ATM machine to name but a few, but have you noticed that they all have one thing in common – You have to click to get to the information that you require.
Over at DONTCLICK.IT the whole idea is that you [...]
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By Mike on January 25, 2006
There has been a lot of talk recently about Google finally adding a delete button to their GMail service. Am I the only person that doesn’t actually have one yet?
I emailed them to find out why but got this response:
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue. While we aren’t able to [...]
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By Mike on January 25, 2006
Opera have announced the Opera Mini – a web browser for your mobile phone.
Browsers like Pocket IE for Windows based Smartphones, try and render a full sized web page into a small screen. This means sending images meant for a PC to a mobile and then the application squishing the pictures down to fit [...]
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By Mike on January 25, 2006
I have been using Firefox for a while now as my main web browser – I like it, I like it alot, but there is one thing that winds me up no end is the problem copying & pasting. How can such a simple task be so frustrating? Sometimes it works, sometimes it [...]
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By Mike on January 9, 2006
Well here we are in 2006! Another Christmas done and dusted! Did you all have a good one? I do find it all such an anti-climax – 2 months of retail build up for you to spend a shed-load of cash and then they reduce everything afterwards! I wouldn’t say that [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 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 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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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!
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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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