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This is a really great idea. I wonder why no-one ever thought of it before. The idea is it occupies a standard SD/MMC slot and is the same size. As well as having a 1GB capacity, it also has a 802.11g WiFi chip embedded into it. This means no extra attachements for that Treo or [...]

Xbox Live will be down for 2 to 24 hours tomorrow (May 2). Microsoft didn’t exactly broadcast this, so I’m sure there will be some pretty annoyed people. However Xbox 360 Fanboy reader Clayj called Xbox Live customer support the other day and received an automated announcement that said that Xbox Live service will be [...]

Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a very popular device and has sold a few million units, but when compared to Apple’s iPod, the PSP lacks storage space. Luckily, the PSP has a built in WiFi card to make up for this disadvantage. With a few simple steps, all of which are included in this tutorial, [...]

I’ve been experimenting with the design of the blog and I want some of your ideas / tips. Anything small to big I would love as I am looking for a unique design (which I don’t think it quite resembles yet). I’m not much of a designer, at all, so anything to freshen up the [...]

Here in the UK, we really do get ripped off. For everything we buy we get charged an extra 17.5% for the VAT (value added tax). So what does this pay for? All sorts of government things such as health care, etc. But for electronics goods, the price does increase a lot, that is why [...]

I know that many Intel Mac Firefox lovers have been dying for a Universal version of Firefox. Firefox is a great browser, but on the Mac, I think it is just too slow, so I use Safari. On the Intel Macs it would have been even worse, because of Firefox haveing to use Rosetta. But [...]

Most of you will have at least one friend who is obsessed with the web stats program. That may very well be me. If you want to have some fun with said friend, read on.
It turns out that someone had copied the source code of my Google Maps housing project and was hosting it on [...]

Microsoft Connect, home of Microsoft’s betas including Vista has some interesting CSS values. The first line in the .css is commented “fix for the IE 1px-off margin error”, followed by a value called “.StupidIEMarginHack “. [digg]
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Awhile back I posted about the new search results interface Google was supposedly testing. I can definitely confirm that today. This blog post describes how to set a new cookie in Firefox that will force Google to display the new results page for you. Since the instructions are a little off (and took me some [...]

I have been playing around with various Bittorrent clients on my Mac mini and I just happened to cross an OS X x86 installation. So it completed the full download this morning as an ISO file. Since my mac mini doesn’t have a SuperDrive I couldn’t burn the iso directly. I tried to put it [...]