Michael S. Clark

Radio North Angus, the independent local and healthcare radio service, has moved into the 21st century by having their broadcasting streaming on their website. The service, having had some teething troubles, is now fully functional with availability 24 hours a day. The transmission is fed from the desk at Arbroath Infirmary into a Barix Instreamer [...]

I’ve just completed the transfer of all the websites I host to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. For as little as $0.25, you can set up web sites at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the original home of only pay for what you use hosting. This is the penultimate service that this server provides as I have already transferred email to Google Mail [...]

We’ve always liked Weather Underground for its no-nonsense, real-time weather info. Today they’ve released a new service called Full Screen Weather that mashes up Google Maps with weather data for nothing but maps and up-to-the-minute weather info. [Via: Lifehacker]

Robots born with the sole purpose of solving the Rubik’s Cube are nothing new, but we’re pretty sure we haven’t seen one crack the code in under a dozen seconds before. [Via: engadget]

We finally began redecorating the livingroom last weekend, and we decided to wall-mount the television. The Plasma Centre provided all the supplies: UM101M Tilt – Black Universal Slim Tilting Wall Mount PAVS-2 – PAVS-2 530mm Cable Management Trunking 3x PAVS-S – PAVS-S Premier AV Support Shelf Unit Now all we’ve got to do is finish [...]

I’d been looking into getting a compact video camera for a while now, and more recently since Alfie came along. I’d initially looked at the RCA EZ409HD, but after reading the disappointing reviews, I decided on the Flip Ultra HD. It’s fairly inexpensive and very easy to use, and the quality is excellent. You can [...]

Why? Why do I have to be signed in to XBox Live to use a media codec? I was trying to watch a programme last night with was encoded using the ISO-MPEG4 compatible XviD codec, but I was having trouble signing in, so it wouldn’t let me. Why can’t they add it to a dashboard [...]

The ActiveSync on my phone, which I’d used to sync with my Google Apps account recently began failing with the error “Your account in Microsoft Exchange Server does not have permission to synchronize with your current settings.”; code 0×85010004. Now I hadn’t changed anything, so I was a bit bemused to say the least. Today [...]

[wehrdo] has posted a guide with an extremely low-tech solution to password management. he literally put the passwords on a floppy disk in the form of paper glued to the magnetic film. for those that still have some floppy disks around, this is a zero cost hack. we wouldn’t recommend this for state secrets, but [...]

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