Archive for July, 2010
ZyXEL PLA-401 Powerline Adapters Starter Kit
If you’ve not come across adapters before, these provide a way to get a network signal around your house using your mains circuitry, rather than wi-fi. The adapters are simply chunky plugs in which you plug in an ethernet cable – one is needed to plug into your router and the other goes into your [...]
Querying Microsoft licenses
With the recent demise of my Mesh PC and the arrival of a brand-spanking-new Dell, I assumed my nice boxed edition of Office 2007 could be transferred across. I was wrong. First of all, I thought I’d check whether I could, so I’d contact Microsoft – their EULA didn’t appear specific enough. Their contact page shows an 0844 [...]
New WordPress Plugin: Android App Share
2 new WordPress plugins within 24 hours? Android App Share uses the excellent AppBrain service (website and app) to display lists of your Android Apps on your blog. You can use both a function call and a widget to display your results. Bloat free and simple, it’s perfect for showing off your Android apps
New WordPress Plugin: Simple Content Reveal
I am pleased to announce that my latest, and 20th, WordPress plugin is Simple Content Reveal . Simple Content Reveal allows you to easily hide and reveal WordPress content, whether it be in the sidebar or in a post or page. To see it in action, cast your eyes to the sidebar on the right where various sections [...]
eBuyer Hard Drive Docking Station
After a recent catastrophic failure of my home PC (more of that in a future post) I ordered an eBuyer “value” hard drive docking station so that I could copy the files from my old hard drive to my new PC. At just £14.99 it really is reasonably priced. The box (which is very neatly made with a large black box [...]
Venom Wii Controller & Nunchuk
Up until now I’ve always bought the “official” Nintendo accessories for my Wii, expecting the quality of anything else to not be worth the reduction in price. However, I’ve been after a third controller and Nunchuk for a while and an offer at Zavvi last week had a Venom branded set for just £18 a . [...]
Why Steve Jobs is wrong about Flash
Steve Jobs doesn’t like Flash. That’s patently clear. He blames most Mac crashes on Flash and, I have to say, since Firefox starting sandboxing plugins I’ve seen regular reported Flash crashes. However, a lot – a lot – of high profile websites use Flash, mainly to render video. Steve’s answer to this is HTML 5 [...]
The T-Mobile G2 Touch finally gets Eclair!
Today, T-Mobile finally announced that Android 2.1 (Eclair) was available for G2 Touch (AKA HTC Hero) owners. If you’ve not received your “pre-upgrade” update already, you’ll need to do this – it makes various small changes in readiness for the Eclair update. To get this, wind your clock on by a month and switch off [...]
Removing “My Bluetooth Places” desktop icon
Having just installed some new Bluetooth software, I was left with a “My Bluetooth Places” icon on my desktop. And you can’t delete it as you would with other icons. But there are two methods of getting rid of it (these apply to Windows XP)… Use Tweak UI – under the “Desktop” you can untick the “My [...]
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. Harvest bugs. Thunder bugs. Whatever you want to call them, they’re small insects that come out during the warm weather, and mainly around fields. I’ve read in the past that because of their small size they’re prone to getting between the layers of LCD monitors and dying – and they’re not easily removable either [...]
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