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Facebook Friend Visualization

May 22nd, 2007

I have been looking for a tool like this for a while. I even suggested it to FB to create such a feat but it never happened. But now you can see how all your friends interconnect.
You sit at the middle and then the tool uses the Facebook API to poll all your “Friends in […]

Windows Vista Forces you to use UAC to Add a Printer

May 15th, 2007

Vista has once again annoyed me. My post on how to turn off UAC is all well and good until you need to add a network printer…
You cannot add a network printer in Windows Vista unless you have UAC turned on, not even with the administrator account. And for more added fun, the error […]

Install Vista without a CD key

May 3rd, 2007

Daniel Petri comes up with another great tip and insight into the way Microsoft’s software can be manipulated to do things you want to do. In this case how to trial different versions of Windows Vista. Once the activation deadline is reached you must put your legal key in for the version you installed to […]

4 Ways to Disable Security warnings in Windows Vista.

April 24th, 2007

Disable the User Account Control (UAC) feature on your Windows Vista computer.
Makes Vista a lot less annoying for power users.
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Toshiba Satellite A100 for £149 at littlewoods.com

January 30th, 2007

Hurry before they take it down. Littlewoods currently have listed a CoreDuo Tosh satellite laptop with 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD and 128MB ATI Radeon graphics for UNDER £150

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This is clearly a mistake on their behalf but most people at work seem to have ordered […]

Microsoft amused by the iPhone - and rightly so

January 19th, 2007

Having seen and commented on the iPhone earlier this week I am happy to see that Microsoft have come back and agreed with my opinions that they have already got a number of devices that can do this and don’t cost an absolute fortune to buy.
I also loved the comment from Steve
“£500 dollars…. that’s the […]

Apple iPhone…. My 3100 does most of that already

January 16th, 2007

Well Apple have certainly done it again. The iPhone looks awesome and it really is a nice design and innovative solution to combining everything into one portable device. But I already have all I need.
My M3100 (HTC Hermes) has a powerful computer, it can do all my emails. POP, IMAP, Exchange - iPhone wont support […]

It’s been a long time

December 16th, 2006

Well it’s been over a month since I last wrote something here (not including the facebook bit I just published) and that’s mainly been due to the fact I now have a job and am incredibly busy.
I now work for Wavex where I am a Service Desk Engineer. Since starting there I have been incredibly […]

Positive Job News

November 3rd, 2006

I haven’t been around for a while to write something new here and as this is now the end of my last week of post student - pre work time I thought I would add something new!
For those of you who don’t know I now have a job at a nice company in London called […]

Windows Vista - give me back my computer

October 17th, 2006

A couple of weeks ago I decided that I would like to try the Windows Vista RC1 release to see whether it is going to be worth my while reformatting my PC again to get it up to date with the latest Windows OS. I currently run Windows Server 2003 and find that it is […]

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