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Archive for March, 2008

The New D200! 1

It is here, arrived at work today and even though I haven’t really had chance to play with it, I have taken one photo:

That is the first photo taken with the new D200. I hadn’t even played with any of the settings, I took it straight out of the box, clipped on a lens and [...]

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Easter Snow 0

This collection was taken whilst on an Easter Break with my family down in Sheringham, Norfolk. It snowed almost all the time whilst we were there, but only settled early in the morning.
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These were taken early on Easter Morning. I was only awake because I was sharing a room with my [...]

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Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows 2

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In using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn’t just undermine “the security of the whole Web”. He’s made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.
As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple’s Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on [...]

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For me it all started here; The BBC Micro computer 4

In 1981 the BBC started the BBC Computer Literacy Project, and needed a computer to front the project with, and approached some of the computer makers of the time, Sinclair, Dragon and Acorn.
Acorn stood up to the challenge and put forward their Proton Computer which the BBC re branded as the BBC Microcomputer and handed [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke, 1917 – 2008 0

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I am incredibly saddened to hear that Arthur C. Clarke has died. He had been ill for sometime, and finally succumbed earlier today.
It is no exaggeration at all to say we owe the world to Clarke. He is most famous for having written the book and movie 2001: A [...]

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UKFast Win ISPA Award for the 4th Year Running! Best Dedicated Hosting 2

Award Results at the ISPA Awards Homepage
The judges agreed that UKFast has placed importance on client data protection and can offer customers a variety of secure hosting packages which include automated patch management and good SLAs
The winners were picked from the elite of the Internet Industry and gathered at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square [...]

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PHP second only to Java, according to Google Trends 0

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I spend the majority of my time developing web software in PHP, so it’s good to see PHP dominating over the other web languages. The only contender is Java, but a comparison using Google Trends isn’t really fair as the results would incorporate searches for the coffee company, or even the island…
Anyway, I [...]

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Best Inventions of 2008 from Intel Science Search 0

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The Talent Search is the most prestigious pre-college science and technology competition in the United States and its contestants will soon fill the campuses of some of America’s finest universities. Each finalist received an Intel Core 2 Duo processor laptop and a scholarship of at least $5,000, with the winner receiving a scholarship for $100,000.
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Microsoft denies Blu-ray Xbox 360 1

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Microsoft’s Xbox division and Sony aren’t chatting about incorporating Blu-ray into the Microsoft console, despite a Sony executive stating that the two companies are discussing the HD technology.
Sony US’ President, Stan Glasgow, confirmed last week that talks between the two companies had taken place, though he didn’t say that the negotiations centred on the Xbox [...]

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iPhone 1.1.x Dual Boot / Jailbreak by the Dev Team 0

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The method of dual booting OS’s has been around for a while now, most noticeably/recently with OS X and Windows using Bootcamp on Intel Mac’s. Well looks like this marvelous tool/ability is making its way onto the iPhone thanks to the Dev Team and the recently published instructions form MuscleNerd.
Dual Boot an iPhone! The nerd [...]

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