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Acer 19″ Widescreen Goodness

By Dan ⋅ January 25, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Yesterday, I received my shiny new AL1916W monitor. For the last 18 months or so, I've used a LG 17" Flatron screen, and it's served me well. With the arrival of the Xbox 360 though, my trusty LG wasn't cutting it. You see, the 360 is unashamedly a beast of widescreen proportions. Trying to shoehorn [...]

Purchases

By Dan ⋅ January 24, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Right, in order to construct my Media Center PC I've purchased a low-profile ATI 7500 graphics card for the machine, and a Sweetspot DVB-T tv card. Which leaves a Microsoft Media Center Remote and roughly 5 meters of aerial cable left to buy. Then, if it all goes according to plan, I'll purchase a second [...]

Performancing 1.1

By Dan ⋅ January 24, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I blogged about the Performancing plugin for Firefox a few days ago. One of the things I didn't like about it was the lack of a "post as draft" option. 1.1 is now available. I've just upgraded, and am pleased to see that I can now tick the "Post as Draft" checkbox in Publishing Options. [...]

Hotel Babylon

By Dan ⋅ January 24, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It wasn't so long ago that I was massively dissapointed by the BBC. They had the capacity to produce world class, character driven, dramatic television of a standard equivalent to (or higher than) most of the American networks, and yet they never managed to pull it off. Lately though, things have started to change. Spooks [...]

802.11g on the Wizard?

By Dan ⋅ January 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

According to this thread, it's possible to enable 802.11g on the HTC Wizard (so Vario) using a couple of simple registry tweaks. You'll need to register for xda-develops before you can see attached binaries on posts. I haven't tried this yet – I'm posting this on my iBook and it's somewhat tricky getting activesync running [...]

A Simple Plan

By Dan ⋅ January 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Sky+ is costing me too much money. I'm paying £42.50 a month (or some similarly moronic amount of money) for all the movie channels, all the sports channels, and everything else. What do I actually watch? The BBC and ITV channels, and my son watches Playhouse Disney. Having started weening him off Disney in favour [...]

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