Every geeks’ dream; Saving the Internet!

December 29, 2008

This surely has to be every geeks’ dream; in 2008, a guy called Dan Kaminsky, previously unknown to most in the IT world although was working as a IT security consultant for many large American companies, surely saved the Internet from a security threat that would arguably bring it down.[...]

Apple Macs: Overpriced rubbish?

November 22, 2008

Let me tell you a story; I recently bought a Power Mac G5 (2004/5 model) quite cheaply but due to space in my flat and a nagging girlfriend(!) had to pass it on again so it went onto ebay.co.uk. I had the usual idiots on here asking if they could[...]

TV-Links.co.uk shutdown

January 13, 2008

It’s old news but thought I would just note that a website I previously mentioned; TV-Links.co.uk has been shutdown and the owner arrested. See this Guardian article. Lets get this right, the website had links to media hosting sites such as google video where tv shows and films were uploaded,[...]

Music streaming

November 8, 2007

Found some great stuff to stream music on a home network. My plan was to have loads of music on a ‘server’ and loads of different clients be able to access it rather than just iTunes. The most promising was something called Firefly. This is an open-source application that runs[...]

Music converting

October 17, 2007

Found a great little utility to convert audio from one format to another: Switch. I needed to convert a load of wma’s and this did it no problem, the problem came later when some other files had DRM on them… annoying.

A reason to touch the new ipod

September 25, 2007

I have never really been bothered by all the new apple stuff, iphone, ipod touch etc. I appreciate they look good and all that but in my opinion they still do they same as before except now I think I would be more worried about damaging the device(I use mine[...]

TV Wherever you are

August 4, 2007

Don’t know how long this has been around but I’ve only just found it, a website called tv-links.co.uk – it lists tv shows, films, music videos, etc that is available on other content sharing websites. So you click on a link and it streams the video from that website without[...]