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Yesterday’s announcement of Windows Phone 8 not being an upgrade for the latest Nokia phones, including Lumia 800, 900 et al, has been met understandably with both disappointment and anger from many existing handset owners. I’ve also seen some articles...
Today I has having some discussions over the right roof pitch for a car port, so I grabbed my phone, rotated it and did some quick trigonometry. Ten minutes later I tried to do the same and I could only see HEX and BIN, not Sin and Tan et al. ...
Today Microsoft announced an even more generous program designed to help non-profit organisations !! http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoftupblog/archive/2011/07/26/expanding-microsoft-software-donations-to-more-nonprofits.aspx Kudos guys!!!! ...
Last weekend we strolled around Glen Aire, along the Great Ocean Walk from Castle Cove to Johanna: More photos at: https://picasaweb.google.com/Bill.McCarthy.MVP/GreatOceanWalk#
I recently bought a Dell XPS17 (L702x) and thought I’d post a review for those considering purchasing this notebook. There’s a massive thread about all things good and bad in relation to this notebook over on notebook forums; the following is just my...
I had one of those weird bugs on my windows phone 7 where the phone would report an error 800C0069 and would fail to synchronize on the primary account. This can be a major headache as there is no way to remove the primary account on Windows Phone 7 without...
My old’ish LCD monitor chews about 50 to 55 watts; the new LED backlight monitors of the same size use about 30 Watts. That’s roughly HALF the power !! But when I do the sums, assuming the monitor is on for 10 hours a day for 300 days a year, the...
The HTC Mozart has an 8 mega-pixel camera built in. The following are some of the photos I have taken with it. All in all, I would say it is okay as a camera, but really it is a phone doubling as a camera. Zoom is generally terrible and should be...
Recently I holidayed for ten days at Port Douglas: Port Douglas is about 70 km North of Cairns, nearby the Daintree Rainforest and with the Great Barrier Reef reasonably close off shore. The town is basically a tourist town with a good range...
So I spoilt myself yesterday with a new camera, a Sony DSC TX5. It’s small, slightly water proof (10 foot), and fits in my pocket easily. It’s a little awkward to hold at first but I’m adapting to it. Controls are all via touch screen. I like the...
The weather on Sunday was mild so we decided to head out for a hike along the Great Ocean Walk , from Cape Otway to Aire River taking in Station Beach and Rainbow Falls ( see map ) The walking track is through heath land (shrubs), and you get glimpses...
It’s amazing how many people fall for scams and social engineering tricks on the internet. Some may remember the classic “ I Love you” virus from back at the start of the century: it infected 50 million users within a week or two. It was actually...
If you are looking to improve the performance of your PC, Solid State Drives (SSD’s), although still costly provide fantastic performance gains for the price. Last month I put in a Corsair V128GB2 and the performance difference on my aging Quad...
Well the verdict is in, the reason I couldn’t read the bottle of beer label (amongst other things) is due to presbyopia … or in other words kind of average for someone in their forties ;) The good news is my eyes are only slightly different in strength...
If I can’t read the small print on a bottle of beer does that mean I need glasses ??????
I managed to spend an hour in the veggie patch this afternoon. Was pulling a lot of big weeds really easily after the rain, getting the beds ready for spring :) And in amongst the weeds I found all these carrots which had self sown from my seed collecting...
The first signs of spring have sprung: With the wild plums currently showing the most early blooms : There’s not a lot happening in the veggie patch, just some carrots and silverbeet mainly. One of the climbers around the garden is also in bloom...
The last couple of weeks I’ve had what seems to be both a cold and the flu. In the process I learnt some things about them … First off, they spread easily. We had a two weekend fire line leadership course, running from Friday after work till Sunday...
The user experience of Live Maps completely sucks compared to Google Maps. It’s that bad I really don’t think they even bother testing it. Live Maps experience: go to maps.live.com. Here it redirects to http://maps.live.com.au/? which seems to...
Just a quick update. Lots of tomatoes at present. Picking a tray full every 3 days or so.
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