Category Archives: Advice
Amazon to buy webOS?
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
Watch US TV via Firefox
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.
Reverse scroll (make scrolling on SL like Lion)
Have you upgraded to OS X Lion at home, but your work still is keeping you on OS X Snow Leopard? And are you getting confused about which way your scroller works?? Ever since the scroller was invented in 1990something, … Continue reading
Digital Color Meter OS X.7 Lion [sucks]
For what it’s worth, Apple have stripped back DCM utility in their new OS. WTF!? I used that all the time, now I can’t copy colour, hold colour or pick in HEX?! A chap called Matt Patenaude has made a … Continue reading
BMW F650gs
I remember my father saying to me once, that if I feel I really want something, wait awhile and see if you still want it. If you do, then at least I’ve thought about it. This was to help my … Continue reading
Copyright protection ‘Cinavia’ on PS3
Sounds like Sony has implemented their Copyright control on movies encoded with Cinavia technology. Most of the movies I watch are downloaded from the web. Most of them are available to me on Lovefilm, a monthly service I pay for … Continue reading
Find my Android
The other day I temporarily lost my phone and panicked. I woke up early in the morning, at 5am – thinking it was 5pm. Couldn’t find my phone. Thought I had missed meeting a friend that day. Then I realised … Continue reading
Advertising in OS’s
Would you or better yet, could you use an operating system that has adverts? Google are working on their web-based OS which would probably have the usual targeted adverts based on either surrounding content or user profile data.
Ikea bed hack
I’ve been needing some more storage in my room. As i lay in bed one morning waiting for my alarm to go off, i thought of the ginormous space above me. I thought, i should put some of that space … Continue reading
Safari 5.1 (Lion)
Understandably, the latest version of Safari is awesome, but bug ridden. It’s still an unreleased version with the upcoming OS Lion. There are a few issues.