Here’s a little tip of how to launch Applications really quickly on your Mac. This makes use of the Spotlight feature to search for the application you want to launch, which saves you all the work of going through the finder and searching for the launch icon.
Tip: Hold the ‘apple key‘ and press ‘Space‘ this [...]

This video was made circa 2006 and reminds me of the time I spent living in Cornwall and riding long boards for the Christian Skate clothing label – BelieveClothing.
Particularly happy with capturing my 360 on film (at 17:21 mins)
A video about Skate-boarding in Cornwall. With a focus on long-boarding and downhill sliding.
The video documents a [...]

Recently my Western Digital 500GB external drive stopped working. Fine one day, then no power the next.
Symptoms: No Power at all, no noise or spinning. The power unit itself will light green when not connected to the drive, but as soon as it’s attached the green light goes out. If connected the power light will [...]

After years of criticizing people who buy macs, i’ve made the switch.

I’ve never understood why anyone would pay so much more for a machine that essentially does the same job as a PC, and yet for some reason i caved in and last week went out and bought myself a Macbook Pro.
Why? well, now i’m [...]

Ok so if like me you have invested in the world’s first Google phone, chances are sooner or later you’ll be wanting to change your wallpaper.
Of course there’s plenty of free wallpapers out there, but if you want to make them yourself here’s some info you might find useful.
Resolution
the G1 display is 320×480 pixels (portrait [...]

I just got one of the latest released G1 phones exclusive to T-Mobile.
I say latest release because they’ve started including a couple of extra things in the box.
I chose the Black one (even though the White one came out after), and was pleased to find that they’d bothered to re-package the black phones too.
The three [...]

K so I had two major problems with my Vista Desktop.
- Mainly my Wacom Bamboo, won’t work properly, despite the advertising that it supports Vista. The guys at Wacom told me i had to disable all the features in order to get any functionality out of it, which kinda defeats the point right?
- Secondly (not [...]

 
So Windows 7 will be the new OS from Microsoft, and finally we get to replace that horrible Vista package.
I’m really hoping that they’ll have listened to what people want from an OS and have addressed the issues we’ve all had with Vista. My main machine at home came with Vista pre-installed, but at times [...]

K so i moved from Sunny Cornwall to the crime filled streets of Nottingham (dubbed the gun-capital of the UK) back in July, and spent three months applying for work in Website Development.
I’d spent 6 months in Cornwall looking for a suitable position, and hadn’t found a single vacancy. So when i arrived in Nottingham [...]