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Microlink strike again

Microlink, that lovely kind group of people who call them selfs a company….. [insert sarcasm stick here] have another complaint against them…. Yesterday Ben and myself were in the union, when a Guy...

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Number 33 – New Laptop

I have made a choice about my new Laptop; the new Apple Macbook Pro 15 inch model * 2.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 * 4GB 1333MHz * 500GB HDD * Intel HD Graphics 3000 * AMD Radeon HD 6490M with 256MB...

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Number 33 – New Laptop :D

While in Plymouth Last weekend I bought my self a new Macbook Pro Laptop; this will replace both my Desktop (a Mac Mini) and my old Laptop; an Advent 4211 netbook. I am currently in the process of...

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Running Boot Camp Windows on OS X using Parallels

As I now have installed Windows 2008 R2 on my Mac; I am looking to also run the same copy of Windows under OS X as a Virtual machine; other things that DreamSpark allows me to have access to, is Visual...

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Mobile wifi Internet

A while ago I wrote about my experiences with unlocking a Three Data Modem; recently I picked up a Edimax 3G-6210n GPRS USB Modem to Wi-Fi (and wired) router, I plan to use this at Medieval Siege...

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Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 1

For the last few years I have been using a Mac Mini as my desktop; With Lion being released, and installed on my Mac Book Pro, now after using it for a while I want to use it on my mac mini as well;...

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O2 and T-Mobile on Compressing the Web.

We have known for a while that O2 compress and manipulate the internet connection that they offer to their mobile internet users. For this test I am using the The ISO 12233 Target, and a randomly...

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bmi.js is not my baby

I’m currently using a T-Mobile 3G mobile connection to do most of my web browsing, as well as the area I am living in not having any signal strength; I have been getting more and more miffed at the...

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Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 2

Following on from Part One, I finally got round to playing with this a bit more; however I still have not had any luck with running Mac OS X Lion on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Mid 2007 Mac (an A1283)...

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Review – Black Speck SeeThru Satin for 13″ MacBook Pro

At the same time as I was sent the Ballistic Hard Case (which I have reviewed here) I was a received a Speck SeeThru Satin for 13″ MacBook Pro in Black to review from GearZap.com. When I bought the...

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Wireless on a boat

Despite living in a marina, right next to the wireless box arial, We have very little signal (red arrow on the side of the building 60 foot away). Looking at the router, it looks like it is a TP Link...

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GPG on Mac

After all the talk about everything Edward Snowden (Bio) has told us about what NSA and GCHQ are up to for citizens (thats Citizens, not Criminals, Terrorists, or other dissidents; but normal...

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Why WhatsApp needs a Desktop Client (updated for Viber)

I used to use MSN, Yahoo, and a number of different accounts with Pidgin as my way of talking to people in a post Bolt world, The Problem was that Bolt died a death; replaced by the shocking My Space,...

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Thoughts on Autodesk Fusion 360

Autodesk Fusion 360 A while ago I tried to design a 3D printed ROV hull, one of the problems of OpenSCAD is the difficulty of making cool organic or rounded shapes, while you do have access to both the...

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Hantek 6022BE USB Oscilloscope

Items in the Box, 2 x Scope Probes, USB Oscilloscope, CD, and USB cable I picked up a Hantek 6022BE USB Oscilloscope as sometimes its useful to have something more than just a multimeter for seeing...

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