the mini Blog

You should have by now heard of the Game Boy Micro. It will be released in the US on September 19th for $99 and was released today in Japan. The release date in the UK is the 4th November and will sell for £69. PC Watch has managed to get their hands on a working [...]

If you’re like me and have a quite old Xbox and had to get one of those huge crappy Xbox power adapters you know how annoying it is. Now if you have one of the new Slimline PS2’s that were manufactured between August and December 2004 and came with models SCPH70002, 70003 and 70004, you [...]

Could this possibly be the first Google in the world? Taken from the Stanford University Website (via the Wayback Machine) could this be Google when it first started. There is also a page for the hardware they used to host the servers. See it for yourself, I think it may have well be the original [...]

I don’t think I can describe this photo, it is simply breath-taking. As they say ‘A picture says more than 1000 words’. You have to see it for yourself. The photo was taken at 3300 feet on September 23 2001 by an airplane, NOAA’s Cessna Citation Jet using a Leica/LH systems RC30 camera. The [...]

The graphics on this look amazing, it’s better than the PSP itself. Seriously, this is by far the worst PSP ripoff I’ve ever seen and the name ‘POP Station’. Why do companies even bother? There is no point, who would even want to buy this. People would just make fun of you because you [...]

It looks like if you want to connect your new iPod nano to your computer then it pops up with an error. You can charge your nano using FireWire but syncing is out of the question. You have to use the USB 2.0 cable to synchronise your music. Although USB 2.0 is faster (by a [...]

I bought my own domain ‘theminiBlog.co.uk‘ and I have the same theme and posts on there. It took a while to update because my old hosting was free it was hard to move the posts. The URL for the RSS will be the same: http://feeds.feedburner.com/theminiblog
Enjoy!

I have updated the link for my feed to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/theminiblog. If you have subscribed using an RSS News Client you can now change this.

After selling unopened copies of Windows XP and Office that both the collegge store and Microsoft refused to allow him to return, 21 year-old college student David Zamos was surprised to find out that he’d been sued by Microsoft. Rather than just take it, he fought back, beating Microsoft into submission without so much [...]

I have downloaded the new Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 and I can say that it does have its improvements. Sadly the plugins that I had with my old Firefox don’t work, and will not work until the developer upgrades them! It has improved popup blocking, drag-and-drop tab shuffling, SVG support, improved Mac OS X support, [...]