December 8, 2008 – 12:59 pm
So after we upgraded our home iMac we passed our old one on to Natalies parents which after six months required a rebuild as the drive was corrupted. I should have know the death bell was ringing but reformatted and reinstalled instead.
Then as I leave for Australia Nat rings saying it’s died again and [...]
November 23, 2008 – 8:16 pm
Since I went crazy and brought an iPhone last week I though it was time to Mobilise TEK for Opera Mini, Windows mobile and safari mobile, This was a crazy easy task which consisted of downloading mobilepress. Unzipping then uploading the folder to the plugins folder and ticking a couple of boxes and bingo mobile [...]
November 22, 2008 – 7:00 am
If Google are trying to take over the world they are not doing a bad job. They have just added video and audio chat to their gmail interface. Now they have my face and voice information along with my videos (youtube), family pics (picassa), email (gmail), business plan (google docs) and a detailed profile of [...]
November 3, 2008 – 7:45 am
Here is a quick 3x speed video of Mark making an irpen. Feel free to comment and ask questions if you need any further help making your own. Or you can buy one by clicking on the link on this blog. If you need to see it in higher quality follow the link to you [...]
September 22, 2008 – 7:24 am
I have been trying to figure this out for a while to connect my laptop to my phones 3G connection. The tethered solutions seemed overly complicated requiring the installation of multiple applications, Kelvin had managed to get it working on his N95 but it was a pretty painful process.
Then I remembered hearing about turning your [...]
September 12, 2008 – 5:34 pm
Please be aware that with the updates of downloadhelper you now have the ability to convert as well as download. Follow the link below for further instructions.
DownloadHelper’s primary job is to retrieve to your disk the videos that are playing in Web pages, in their original format.
Unfortunately, the native format generally FLV is often not [...]
August 17, 2008 – 9:28 pm
Well Xen anyway!!…..One for the System Admins or anybody else who has overall responsibility for the systems at a workplace/school.
I love it when a plan comes together!!!. A few months ago Arron from Totali convinced me to throw caution to the wind and virtualise a number of our servers into one ‘box’. Lots has been [...]
August 6, 2008 – 11:42 am
This falls into the “wish I knew this earlier folder” By opening a movie in Quicktime Pro and selecting view movie properties you can easily rotate a film taken incorrectly with your digital camera. I have done this a couple of times when I have been taking photos and then decided to get a short [...]
Up until today I have been getting achievement and unit standards from the NZQA website as individual files. I download them to my computer then I put them up on Moodle as individual files; a time consuming process. Then I discovered that it doesnt have to be so hard- follow the steps [...]
We have just had the Sunday morning skype session with both sets of grandparents in the UK. After doing some morning chores I came back to find a spinning beach ball. I tried to force quit Safari without success so I did what anyone would do and held down the power button until it turned [...]
