Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Resistance is futile and my first .EU domain has been purchased (http://imapcblog.eu), now depending on your mood you can access “I’m a PC Blog” on .com or .eu and all because 123-reg is running a sale, how fickle am I? All .EU domains are 0.95p + 15% UK VAT until Friday – go crazy! P.S. The blog […]

Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 22:28 | 0 comments
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Creating a bootable USB stick for the purpose of installing Windows Vista, 7 or Server 2008 is nothing new. But if you are looking to cut corners (how isn’t right?) a chap by the name of “Aris” made an easy to use tool that automates the process for you. .Source: here (credit Aidan Finn)

Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 13:52 | 0 comments
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When looking for a secure hard drive last week I came across a new type of portable storage, Freecom have an encrypted RFID swide-card that unlocks access to your data. The idea sounds great, I could have two cards one assigned to myself and another to a trusted 3rd party, one snag is that the […]

Sunday, July 19th, 2009 at 21:48 | 0 comments
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Blu-ray, Sony’s high definition video disc format has made marginal improvements in the last year (7 percent of Americans own a Blu-ray player, up from 4 percent in 2008), however 11 percent have HD-DVD players. Critics claim this to be down to the more competitive pricing of the HD-DVD hardware, my personal view is that […]

Sunday, July 19th, 2009 at 21:36 | 0 comments
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Completely off topic I know, but like most people I was shocked when I heard the news that Michael Jackson had died (I was actually working into the early hours at the time – we were migrating an application between data centres). Fans believe that Michael’s health deteriorated after performing at a Pepsi shoot where […]

Friday, July 17th, 2009 at 06:56 | 0 comments
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The blogosphere is going nuts about Google’s recent announcement to launch a Netbook friendly OS aka Google Chrome OS. Personally I don’t get what the deal is about, from what I can tell from the leaked picture below this is just another variant of Linux, like Asus’s Xandros and as we all know it didn’t […]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 14:07 | 0 comments
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