Interesting Spelling on Google Ads
June 27, 2008 | Filed Under IT Related | 1 Comment
Come on TeleBid, make up your mind: Is it a montor, montior or monitor?
Exclusive - Day 732
November 23, 2007 | Filed Under IT Related | 1 Comment
Day 732 of my Nokia 6630 review. Today I accessed one of the most amazing, ground breaking, earth shaking, world rocking, foundation bowing, breath taking, soul shaking, shoulder quaking features of my phone: I made….yes….a PHONE CALL! As I did this I looked across at my old Canon 300D with it’s Tamron 28-70mm lens and thought "it is so over for you my old friend." How could I
ever go back to my camera, if it can’t make phone calls? A sad sad day, I know. Check back soon for more exclusive features as and when I uncover them.
Phish Food - Aquitania Hacked!
May 1, 2007 | Filed Under IT Related | 1 Comment
On Saturday my site became the victim of a Phishing Infiltration. Some unscrupulous vagrants used the user uploads function of my COppermine Gallery installation to upload a malicious re-direct file. The issue was quickly brought to my attention (from various sources) and dealt with promptly. Fortunately the redirect was on a part of my site that is never visited (according to Google) and should easily have been spotted by Firefox (you are using Firefox, right?).
As a result I have had to delete my Coppermine installation - in fairness it had fallen into disrepair, which is why the attack was able to take place. After almost 12 months of exclusive Flickr use, I doubt anyone will notice or care. I am sad to see it go, but these days hosting and managing your own website is becoming an ever more tasking endeavor.
iTunes - or What Went Wrong?
April 25, 2007 | Filed Under IT Related | 1 Comment
“Whoops!”
I often find myself thinking that when I hear about some dumb decision made, either in the corporate world or in day-to-day life. I can’t help myself thinking that about Apple’s iTunes software. For a while it was the best music management software available - made even better because it was free. Then iTunes 7 came along offering new features, like Coverflow (for people who keep their music collections above mirrors, or something like that) and other stuff.
Of course, what Apple hang their hat on with iTunes is the Apple Music Bore…uhh I mean Store. I would comment here on the store itself, but unfortunately I have to go to bed in a few hours so I don’t have time to browse the store now. You see, I keep finding that the Apple Music Store is quite ridiculously slow! Trying to browse podcasts is a ridiculously long task. But that is only the beginning of the problem. Once you have podcasts downloaded, playing them is a positively intuitive less experience. Playing video podcasts is even worse (insert here “stultifying annoying”). The coup-de-grace of the iTunes experience is it’s intense desire to sap all my system’s resources. I thought only software like Microsoft’s legendary bloatware Outlook could achieve this. On one of my machines at work, with a 2Ghz processor and 1GB RAM, I have to plan ahead by a few hours if I intend to open iTunes, and I only have a library of a hundred or so podcast episodes. What is the solution? Windows Media Player? “Whoops!” No podcast support! If only Microsoft got their RSS acts together, it would be adios iTunes altogether.
Update…James: Good call!
Wiireless?
January 7, 2007 | Filed Under IT Related | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTGSkYRDpWY
Interesting!
