the mini Blog

I’m going on my D of E expedition tomorrow so I won’t be doing any posting. We are spending one night at a campsite in a tent and then walking until about 2PM on Sunday. I will be really tired.

On a previous post, I talked about the Treo 670 (a Treo 650 running Windows Mobile 5.0) and ta-da. Engadget has posted a great article with lots of pictures showing the features of the device. People are guessing that the ‘w’, on the end of ‘700w’ is supposed to mean Windows Mobile 5.0. This could [...]

I hope this is only a prototype because this thing is HUGE. It really is like a brick, if not bigger. If it is this big then I may not get it because of the sheer size, and I wonder how much power it will consume. There will be no electricity left for the rest [...]

So you’re thinking of travelling from London to New York, and not by plane – just go by tunnel. It’s not as if this idea hasn’t been presented before, but this seems more thoughtout, with more information about how it will be powered, how it will work and what to do incase of accidents. It [...]

Over at DownloadSquad, Jordan has found a quick and easy way of installing Firefox on an external drive, such as a USB Pen Drive, that will work on both Mac OS X and Windows. I have waited so long for this, and it is here!
There’s some simple file editing involved, but once you get over [...]

If you are too lazy to get out of bed and want to use your computer, then a Japanese company has come to your rescue. The company invented a desk, pictured above, called the スクトップ which as you can see allows you to use a huge desktop PC like a PowerMac in bed. Cool invention, [...]

International Talk Like A Pirate Day is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by two Americans, John Baur and Mark Summers, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like pirates. Wikipedia entry:
For example, instead of “hello,” an observer of this holiday would greet his mates with [...]

My Mac Desktop for Sunday 18th September 2005.

I saw this long ago, but the fact that it was on the Digg homepage made me look at it again. It is by far the coolest thing anyone has ever done. If you haven’t seen any iPod adverts then you would find it weird for the guy to be dressed in black. The reason [...]

Over at Revision 3, where they created the broken, systm and now host diggnation, they have released the newest version of Diggnation. If your not familiar with Diggnation, it is a podcast where they review the top articles submitted to Digg. Digg is a social bookmarking site, where you can keep track of your friends [...]