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 100 (which is also used to trasmit the DAB service), and the streaming service itself is supplied by MixStream. A very big thanks to the guys on the service desk who provided some much need support.

This is the first streaming service I have set-up, so hopefully it will be well received.

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 and ClickOnce hosting to Dropbox.com.

I believe this is better for the long term. I was thinking of decommissioning the server anyway, as the last service it provides is media server that works with my XBOX360. For this purpose, I am now looking at the LaCie Network Space MAX 4Tb.

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]

• 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 papering, and get new skirting boards and door and window frames.

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 see some of the early camera work by me and Laura on Alfie’s blog.

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 update and have it available all the time?

Grrr.

Now I hadn’t changed anything, so I was a bit bemused to say the least.

Today I found the solution.

It appears as though Google have added an “Enable Google Sync” setting to the “Service Settings –> Mobile” section of the dashboard for your Google Apps domain.

Thanks for letting us all know, Google! I know Google Sync is still in beta, but adding a setting that effectively kills your calendar, contacts and email without letting us know is a bit much.

So this is a bit of a heads up or anyone else who is having this problem; there’s nothing wrong with your phone, your Google account, your sync settings or anything else.

All it takes is one little unchecked checkbox.

[Via: Google Support]

[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 for those prolific forum registrations it’s a great idea.

[Via: hackaday]