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I recently had O2 unlock my iPhone prior to me transferring my number to T-mobile. I wanted to test T-Mobiles unlimited internet and texts for a tenner a month. All went well until…. I’ve now discovered that putting the iPhone into flight mode locks me out of the iPhone totally, insisting that it has to […]
A thought occurred to me after reading this Twitter from Mark Littlewood. What if Cambridge based Plastic Logic’s new screen is going to be the display for the often rumoured Apple Tablet? With investors pumping 250 million dollars or so it would seem to me that they might have a big company ready to start […]
I finally managed to get my bargain 4GB Asus701 Eee to run with XP professional and for there to be still about 1GB of spare space after installing all my must have programmes for travelling and suffering the SP3 upgrade. Various points of hard earned wisdom are:- Use nLite to shrink your XP but be […]
A post for posterity, in case I loose the instruction manual for my Ryobi IR Thermometer Model SW-638E, a Christmas present from Sally. It can measure temperatures of -20 to +315 degrees Celsius However, for the lower temperatures it can take 10-15minutes to adjust. For best accuracy the objects have to be under 2 feet […]
Twitter is just so useful. I noticed that my gmail wasn’t working online at all. In these cases its usual for me to start kicking the computer/firefox/router 🙁 But now with Twitscoop in my sidebar all is revealed:- and looking at the time line of twitters mentioning ‘gmail’ is quite cool:- This Twitter just made […]
Followcost is a great little application which works out the cost of following celebrities on Twitter. Here is the cost of following @stephenfry It strikes me that celebrities are caught in a cleft stick, someone as popular as Stephen Fry has over 208,000 followers(The old Radio Luxenbourg radio frequency for us nerds 🙂 and is […]
After reading the history of Twitter over at @Dom‘s blog 140 characters and how it was conceived “We happened to be on top of the slide on the north end of South Park. It was sunny and brisk. We were eating Mexican food. His idea made us stop eating and start talking.” Thought I would […]
After my post bemoaning the fact that the only way I had of importing trails from the Garmin Legend HCx on the iMac was through using Parallels and the Garmin software (PC only!). Euan pointed me in the direction of Ascent for the iMac which can take in data from the Garmin and is Mac […]
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In the beautifully illustrated tear down of the new MacBook at iFixit there is the discovery that the new MacBook contains an astounding 96 screws of which 56 hold down the keyboard. It must be an assemblers / BOM nightmare with 13 different types of screw mentioned in the break down. Plus it must add […]