Tag: PC Pro
Dell UltraSharp U2311H monitor
For a while I’ve been after a new monitor – my 17″ Viewsonic may have been a PC Pro a-listed cutting-edge monitor back in 2005 (when it cost me £187.22!) but now it’s a little small and the colours aren’t quite as vibrant as they were 6 years ago. Now, I was happy to spend [...]
The iPhone 4 – We may or may not recommend it
The iPhone 4, evolutionary rather than revolutionary, has had users reporting signal strength problems since its launch. It continues to sell well, despite what appears a big flaw and Apple refusing to be helpful. Let’s have a quick run down of what’s happened since the iPhone 4 launch on the 24th June. June 24th The [...]
iPhone Review Backlash
PC Pro have reviewed the new iPhone 4 and have put it on its “A List”, knocking off the HTC Desire. However, comments, at the time of writing this, show that people aren’t happy – and they make some rather important points too… I am fed up with seeing IPhone splattered over the homepage! Change it, this is PC Pro, [...]
Vacuum Firefox for improved performance
Since Firefox 3.0 bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases and, ass with any other database, SQLite databases become fragmented over time. But, since there are no managing processes checking and optimizing the database, these eventually result in a performance hit. So, a good way to improve startup and some other bookmarks [...]
Mobile Broadband for Free (well, almost)
Most networks are currently able to provide both contact and PAYG USB dongles that will provide your favourite laptop with 3G broadband access. However, 3 have a special offer right now that allows you to pick up a PAYG one for free – you just pay P&P fees of around a fiver. You top up at least £10 a time [...]
Ninety-Freakin’-One Percent!
That’s my YSlow rating for the BMTG website . It’s taken me a year but I’ve done it. The only thing missing – that elusive 9% – is a CDN . But I’m not going to have that so I now have the highest rating I can achieve. Once this site is at its new host, I’ll start looking at the [...]
iPhone and being rumbled
Ha. After my story the other day that the iPhone advert has been banned, PC Pro have an excellent video showing you EXACTLY how quick the iPhone would be doing what they advertised. Meantime, my other story about a software retailer not lowering their prices has been revealed by PC Pro , and they’ve mentioned their name, which I decided not to do. Yes, stand up McAfee. The PC Pro [...]
VirtualBox Additions
There’s a facility with VirtualBox to install “Guest Additions” – various utilities for a particular OS that will enhance it’s capabilities to work with VirtualBox. Most of the other virtualisation software has its own equivalent. However, I’ve struggled to get it work until I came across an article in PcPro (October 2007) about how to [...]
A Virtual Change
I posted recently about trying out Linux via VMWare . VMWare was incredibly easy to set-up but has had 2 frustrating problems… It’s slow (this is apparently on purpose to get you to buy the commercial version. Allegedly) The network bridging that it uses causes my network connection to not start for about 5 minutes after [...]
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O2, your phone number and lost services
Yesterday PC Pro a story about how system administrator Lewis Peckover had discovered that O2 were transmitting customer’s mobile number when you visited a web page. Lewis even produced a web page where you could if your phone was doing this. However, by the afternoon O2 appeared to have back-peddled quickly and removed this functionality, as my phone was [...]
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