Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Alfie's First Birthday Party

Date April 14th, 2010 Comment No Comments

I’ve updated Alfie’s blog with videos from his first birthday party. Click here to view them.

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Jivin' Jim

Date April 7th, 2010 Comment No Comments

Jivin’ Jim now has his own website, including videos, with a theme customised by yours truly! Jim, as you may remember, is currently using Karaokidex to run the karaoke parts of his gigs. He asked me to give him a website, so there it is. Click here to visit.

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Beautiful

Date February 18th, 2010 Comment No Comments

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Full Screen Weather

Date February 15th, 2010 Comment No Comments

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]

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Lego Cubestormer Robot Solves Rubik's Cube in Sub-12 Second Whirlwind

Date February 15th, 2010 Comment No Comments

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]

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Wall-Mounted LCD

Date February 10th, 2010 Comment No Comments

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 [...]

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Aero Snap with Multiple Monitors

Date January 27th, 2010 Comment No Comments

I tried to use the window Aero Snap feature on Windows 7 today that allows you to snap windows to the left or right of the screen by holding the title bar and dragging to the left or right edges. This work well for systems with one monitor, but with dual monitors, the desktop is [...]

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Customize the Windows 7 “Send To” Menu Option

Date January 27th, 2010 Comment No Comments

Like prior versions of Windows, this is one of your options when right-clicking an item; it does what it says: it sends a copy of the object to the option you choose. The default choices with a normal right-click are the Desktop, a Zip folder, a fax or mail recipient, or any additional drives connected [...]

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In Communist China, Google Searches You!

Date January 15th, 2010 Comment No Comments

One of the cooler stories out (of) the whole Google-China debacle is that Google hacked the hackers. [Via: Gizmodo]

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I'm A Flipper Now!

Date January 13th, 2010 Comment No Comments

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 [...]

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