December 31, 2010
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Its that time of the year, so first up the review of last year. Go skiing on real snowYes this has been on going and to be honest, with all the spare time I had this year I could have … Continue reading
December 30, 2010
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via Paul Pod at Tapeitofftheinternet In the last blog post about SharetheTV and Trakt.TV, I mentioned the need for a way to track TV episodes which your social network were on. It got me thinking what ever happened to the … Continue reading
December 30, 2010
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I love know your meme and have been catching up with the episodes I’ve missed for a while but I love this almost like a public service message episode which is attached to downfall. In response to Constantin’s attempted takedown … Continue reading
December 30, 2010
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In a surprise (surprising to me at least) move to XBMC there is now a couple of services which allow you to show off your collection to the awaiting public. Something a little like Boxee does but much more like … Continue reading
December 28, 2010
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Once Microsoft released a open source driver for the Kinect it made sense someone would release a hack/fix to support XBMC, Boxee and even Plex. Well of course it happened…of course there’s lots more on Kinect Hacks
December 27, 2010
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During Christmas I thought I’d do some maintenance to blog because I’ve been meaning to clean up a few things for a while. I’m hosting with GoDaddy.com mainly because there cheap and there pretty hassle free. I had my /wordpress … Continue reading
December 23, 2010
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Almost missed this one. Unfortunately I’ve not had a chance to play with it on my home cinema setup because I switched off the machine just before I went away for the holiday season. But reading through the list of … Continue reading
December 23, 2010
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At last a break through, someone (musicinstinct2) has cracked the way the pacemaker adds and removes music to the SQLlite database. My initial experiments involved using the sqlite database browser to open up music.db and enter track information. Then manually … Continue reading
December 21, 2010
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When I first sat down and thought seriously about going up north to Manchester, I kind of dismissed the idea thinking well its not really for me but after a few visits to Manchester I got a real sense of … Continue reading
December 20, 2010
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Imran posted a link on his facebook wall. The future of publishing is writable, Trends of smaller, easier, and more personal content signal a shift away from read-only publishing. There are three convergence trends in publishing that are already apparent. … Continue reading
December 20, 2010
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According to Stephen Mount, online dating goes something a little like this. Person A: Hi Person B: Hi Person A: What’s your financial circumstances? Person B: I’m skint Person A: Bye In my experience this is certainly not true. It … Continue reading
December 20, 2010
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I had message on my flickr mail today. The subject read awesome workplaces. I though it may have been spam at first but I checked it out. Dear Ian, I found some great pictures of the Citizen Space workplace here: … Continue reading
December 19, 2010
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Amazon are really cornering the reader market. Not only do they have one of the best ebook readers, but its also one of the cheapest (using there ability to ship many of them). But what really smashed it for them … Continue reading
December 17, 2010
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The Geometry Set by Cubicgarden on Mixcloud In a quick follow up to my previous blog post about soundcloud… I’ve now spent some time with Mixcloud and to be fair its not bad. I’m considering switching over, not because I … Continue reading
December 16, 2010
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I love soundcloud but it has a few issues if your a dj and are uploading mixes like I am. Before I run through them, I want to make sure people understand this isn’t a startup assassination, soundcloud is a … Continue reading