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Microsoft has announced that Windows Vista Beta 2 is available for the public to download and test. The traffic was so overwhelming that Microsoft closed the download. It was only available for a number of hours. Hans Verbeeck managed to download his copy and he went to install it onto a MacBook Pro.
So how did [...]

This is an article that I found from the great guys at Make. It is a very cool project that just about anyone can do and not much equipment is needed. How it basically works is using an MEA (Membrane Electrode Assembly) which turns Methanol into Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen without the need for any [...]

I had really nothing else to blog about so I thought I’d share with you my own story with the tech guys at our school’s IT department. I won’t mention the school because, well I don’t think I should But here is the story.
I have been really fed up with our school’s crappy internet [...]

I don’t think I talked about this, but one blogger had noticed that their was a small plastic sheet covering the heat vents of the MacBook. A few other people began to notice this as well, but it didn’t happen to everyone. Now Apple have come clean and made a KnowledgeBase article on it saying [...]

I hope you don’t think I’m bashing Vista, because I haven’t tried it out. It seems quite cool, honestly, but I think it’s coming a bit too late. Windows Vista is what XP should have been. Anyhoo, I saw this article over at ComputerWorld where they list their 20 most annoying things that you probably [...]

We started our exam period this week. I have a further 13 exams to take as a part of my GCSE’s in year 11 (Roughly I think I would be in High School in the US, but I have no idea how their Education System works; I am 16 in August). This means I have [...]

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Seeing as how it is a slow news day, (normally is on the weekends) and I thought this was an interesting bit of emm pdf I thought it would be worthwhile mentioning it.
So this image basically shows the pyramid of numbers of the pirating ‘industry’. It shows how [...]

PC World has released it’s top list of 100 products in 2006, and also their 4 awards to various companies. Apple has won the ‘Best Hardware Company of the Year’ for introducing “products that made everyone else look bad. iPods (#36) that play video have created a new market for reruns, Core Duo-based Macs (#35) [...]

I know that Windows Vista is still in Beta — more than half a year till it arrives — but it is worth while mentioning how stupidly hard it is to delete a shortcut icon! No this isn’t an application, DLL or something important, but a bloody shorcut icon that merely points to a file. [...]