Author Archives: marksy

Korn + Dubstep

Posted on December 20, 2011 by marksy

Korn released a new album a couple weeks ago, not their greatest work. However, as an instrumental it sounds pretty good. They released all of their new tracks as ‘stems’ or multitrack. I downloaded them and cut out the vocals. … Continue reading →

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New flat, no internet

Posted on December 20, 2011 by marksy

At the end of October I moved from Tulse Hill into East Dulwich. Living with other people has had it’s time, living in Tulse Hill (Knifers Paradise) was way too much stress for a little kiwi. So i’ve moved to … Continue reading →

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OS X notifications

Posted on October 4, 2011 by marksy

On the cusp of the iOS release, due today or any day now, iOS notifications is a great visual notification system on iPhone/iPad. However, OS X doesn’t have a native notification system. Growl is the closest thing we have as … Continue reading →

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Amazon to buy webOS?

Posted on October 3, 2011 by marksy

Remember that fantastic day when HP announced it was scrapping their newly developed tablet, and selling them off for a mere £80? Well when that happened I thought, Amazon should buy the OS and run it as an iOS & … Continue reading →

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Mac Bluray Ripper Pro (for Mac)

Posted on September 13, 2011 by marksy

I paid about £20 for this great software about a year ago to backup my Bluray discs to HDD so I can watch them anytime without having to take them out of their jackets and fast forward the ads.

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Portugal (in 30 minutes)

Posted on September 11, 2011 by marksy

I made the decision last minute to join my mate Joel over in Portugal on Wednesday evening after a couple of jars. I ummed and arghed about it for ages, but finally decided that I should go. It’s the end … Continue reading →

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Portugal (in 5 mins)

Posted on August 30, 2011 by marksy

Flew into Porto Sunday night with no troubles. Caught the train into the city, then a taxi to meet Joel. He and friend Rhys had already been celebrating the Australian win of international under water hockey against SA. So they … Continue reading →

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Watch US TV via Firefox

Posted on August 26, 2011 by marksy

Penx just showed me a neat plugin hack for FireFox to enable watching content from the United States. Download Modify Headers from the Firefox Addons repository, install, restart browser.

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Portugal

Posted on August 24, 2011 by marksy

I’ve attempted to go so many times. I’ve failed always. I’d planned to go there a couple times with someone who I was with for a bit, but it never worked out. I had even planned to go there earlier … Continue reading →

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HP touchpad sells out

Posted on August 22, 2011 by marksy

There was some controversy as to what happened with HPs webos, their latest device challenging the iPad, HP touchpad has died a death before even shipping. Today, someone from Dixons announced the touchpad will sell for £89, usually selling for … Continue reading →

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