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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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