Category: Technology

I’m still suffering from unresolved firewire “issues”. I can capture happily from my camera but can’t record back to it. I don’t know if there’s a problem with the camera, my computer or just the cable. Some experimenting at work tomorrow (or later today) is in order.

Today’s Guardian handed over it’s second section totally to the phenomomenom that is the mobile phone. Full of fascinating facts about the number of mobile phones overtaking landlines internationally, that one person in six on the planet has one and that the British do a lot of texting (oh – you knew that). But can…

This article on The Register is suggesting that both BMG and EMI (Germany, at least) plan on copy protecting all their music CDs from now on. I’m furious at this news for three key reasons: 1) I can’t play the CDs back on my PC. Some copy protection systems ship with below par windows encoded…

It’s been a while since RAM was so cheap, and at �25 for 256MB PC133 (what my PC takes) with one spare slot in my computer, I decided to wait until it was even lower. Well of course it went back into the �50 range, so I waited. And waited. And finally bought the extra…

I just had to let out some steam! I’ve just spent about two hours trying to install, remove, reinstall, remove, install once more, then think I have working a TV card, until finally I nearly had the computer not boot up at all. It all drives me totally mad. Just to explain that my computer…

I’m trying to work teach myself Freehand 10 so I can put together the company’s weekend away magazine. Why is it always print settings that bugger me up? If I create a 300dpi image in Photoshop and then import it into a 300dpi Freehand document, shouldn’t it look good? It doesn’t.

Interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian Online section about 3G’s slow eventual rollout now beginning. I have some serious doubts about the whole thing, and the amount of money everyone spent. On the one hand I certainly don’t want the Treasury paying any of that money back – if I go mad at a Bargain Hunt…

I didn’t realise how quickly I’d miss my computer when it broke down. Actually, let me put that another way. I didn’t realise how much I’d miss my computer. I know that I’m fortunate to have an old computer (and I do mean old) which lets me get on the net and get my email.…