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For a while now i've been using an iMate JAMin as my phone/pda. It was pretty good, cept for the lack of buttons. It was all touchscreen. I upgraded a few weeks ago. I wanted something that was pretty much the same, but i wanted to be able to type, not just tap. Enter the iMate Ultimate 9502. So far it's going pretty well. There's issues, but ...

I find it fascinating just how much is available for keeping in touch with people. But what really made me laugh was how I talk to a friend of mine in the states. We talk a lot, and finding the easiest way to communicate quickly has been a slowly evolving process. So the setup is like this. Two webcams, one here and one there. Visibility is ...

I did some googling. It looks like someone has sorted out the issue! No more bluescreens when trying to play downloaded avis within Media Center! Just download this free plug in for vista media center, and you're away :)

As I glossed over on my last post, I've been reinstalling my media center pc. So far I've: Formatted C Drive Installed Vista Installed the motherboard, audio, video, tv card, and bluetooth drivers. And that's enough for tonight. I'se tired and sleepy. Interestingly, the remote control I got, since it's only a keyboard as far as the PC is ...

I've just started reinstalling my media center pc (I think that's the cause of my remote control issues). While it's doing it's thing, I thought I'd make a quick note of a problem I remember having (and am about to have again) getting the bluetooth dongle that I bought to make my bluetooth mouse work. When I first plugged it in, I was having all ...

Strangely, only a day after Mitch wrote a recent entry about Media Center [I've just become a Media Centre junkie], I've got something to say roughly on the same topic. I've been running a ''Media Center'' for 3 or 4 months now. I say ''Media Center'' rather than Media Center (look carefully, there's a difference) because of one tiny thing - I ...

A friend of mine, Tony, from my old job at Telstra, did up a comic last week. I think he was trying to make some sort of point at work :) So anyway, I promised to blog it when I had the chance. And here it is. Click to see it full size. I love it - looking forward to Episode 2!

Well, not that much really. Work is flat out, but fun, so I'm happy :) In the off hours, I've mostly been running my net connection downloading tv shows. Last month (12th December-11th Jan) my 40 gig download limit was used up 5 days before the end, so I got throttled to slower than modem speeds for 5 days :) This month (12 Jan - 11th Feb) I ...

Things have been flaky on CrankyGoblin for a while. Some of it has been my fault (dodgy code uploaded to the server :) but a lot had also been flakiness on the part of my provider. I really like having my own web server. I can upload whatever I want (within legal reasons), share whatever I want (ditto), host my blog, tinker with my blog (CS high ...

Well, so long as you live in or near Sydney or Melbourne. This is really exciting - I certainly want to go, and if you're interested in WCF, then you should too :) Readify has managed to bring Juval Lowy, a .Net 3.0 specialist and a Microsoft Regional Director for silicon Valley to come over to Australia in early February next year to ...