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Posted on June 6, 2010 by jonners99
Last Sunday we had our first karting event of 2010 which also represents the first ever Talote Racing championship race (sad huh?). Information is going to be slightly short due to two things, first we had no-one to take photos and second we were not provided with any lap times barring our fastest as their printer was broken. We therefore had to just remember our fastest times
We turned up at the track and were led up to the second track (which we had never seen or raced before):
Posted on May 26, 2010 by jonners99
For the last four weeks I have been trialling the subscription service offered by the Independent. I have often felt that newspapers still hold value and was turned off the Times by both its online Pay-Per-day system for news articles and its blatant pro-tory message during the election. I therefore went with the newspaper that I read during college.
It was such a good deal as well, at least at trial stage. four pounds for a four week subscription. It then goes up to £5 a week for which you get the weekday papers plus the Saturday edition.
Posted on April 27, 2010 by jonners99
So last year I went to the Internet World conference at Earls Court unsure what I would find. I came out having visited many useful speeches from knowledgeable people about the Internet.
Posted on April 17, 2010 by jonners99
So a month ago we saw Microsoft introduce its browser ballot which popped up for everyone who had Internet Explorer picked as their default browser. So I had a look at the top five and some of the smaller picks in the ballot.
6. Apple Safari – I tested Apple’s browser at work yesterday and found it very slow, sure browsing speed was fast but the software itself kept stalling and smacked of software built mainly for another operating system.
5. Flock – Flock is the best of the smaller browsers. It allows you to keep an eye on your social networks with a style largely based on Firefox even borrowing the rendering engine
Posted on April 16, 2010 by jonners99
So a month ago I decided to test out every image editor I had ever heard of and then Craig gave me a couple more that I hadn’t. The aim was simple, I knew photoshop was brilliant but I wanted to see if I could get the features I needed without the £600 price tag. My intention was to run a series of tests across all the software devices and then report back. Unfortunately I ran out of time so my analysis is not as in depth as I would have liked but I can rank the software by my preference with my reasons.
Posted on March 8, 2010 by jonners99
So this morning I got around to picking up Adobe CS2 from the post office. On the way home I opened it up, I found that the disc was two tones of white and the image on the disc was slightly compressed. Expectations were therefore not that high when I got home and chatted with Adobe via their website. I gave them the product key and they informed me that the key was not valid. Yey for more non-official products on ebay.
Posted on March 5, 2010 by jonners99
Back in November Craig gave me a phone to sell on ebay, a week after that I tried placing it on the site only to find that the adding process would not complete even though all required and some non-required fields were filled in correctly. I put this down to a small bug that would be fixed and left it – granted Craig would have preferred I didn’t leave it as long – until two weeks ago. This time the item added fine and I was happy enough with the ebay fees of £5 or so for listing the item on the site as we expected it to go for a lot more money. I’ll just say I am sure neither ebay nor paypal used to take such a large share of the monies generated.
Posted on March 3, 2010 by jonners99
A couple of months ago during my film of the decade voting someone (possibly my father) suggested I should do a topic regarding what everyone’s first DVD was. His was godzilla which apparently is one of Cathy’s favourite films. That was back in the day when it was still a relatively new technology. Although DVD’s first came into existence in 1995 I believe it was around the year 2000 that we got our player, not 100% on that my father can probably clear it up.
Posted on February 26, 2010 by jonners99
A couple of weeks ago I announced the games that I am looking forward to over the next six months, well Nintendo being the cheeky people they are have announced that a game I thought was coming out near Christmas 2010 is actually coming out this May and so makes this list…
Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Wii – 28th May 2010 (wouldn’t be released on a Sunday like in US so picked the next Friday)
Posted on February 15, 2010 by jonners99
I have tidied up some parts of the blog template that have been annoying me for a while. At the same time I have also added a new feature.
The categories are now near the top so they are easier to find, still not perfect but definitely an improvement. At the same time I’ve improved the twitter widget I am using and also added my xbox gamercard as well. If you have an xbox feel free to add me. I have also added the link to my amazon wishlist back in as well in case you have a need to buy me something… not sure why you would but just in case…
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