Monthly archives for March, 2011

Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box Serial Problem

Mar27
2011 Written by Mauldor

I thought I would buy some games for the PC for a change and whist out and about yesterday, I spotted a few games which might tickle my fancy, these been Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box, Kane & Lynch 2 Dog Days and finally Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway. I installed Burnout Paradise which installed also the EA Download Manager and finally when I ran the game, it told me there was an update. Once I got into the game, it asked me a EA Login to allow me to play on-line, once logged in it told me that the Serial key was Invalid and close the program down back to the desktop. After much searching on Google – I finally worked out why this was happening there si a story with this.

Posted in Gaming - Tagged arms, box, brothers, Burnout, chat, cheap, days, deal, dog, ea, games, hells, highway, invalid, kane, lynch, paradise, serial, ultimate

The Day my HTC Hero died

Mar25
2011 Written by Mauldor

This morning when I woke up, I noticed a message on the phone “There is a system update available”. I set it off to download, it restarted, installed the update and restarted again. I was left at the HTC Hero starting screen – I assumed that it might take a while before updating or something, so I left it plugged in and on while I went off to the Gym at 9am. I returned at 10:30am and the phone was in the same state -i.e. Not working. Maybe reboots, took sim out, tried the rom screen (Power & Back key while switching on) and nothing I did made it work.

Posted in Mobile - Tagged dead, firmware, flash, hero, htc, reboot, rom, t-mobile, update

Fitness Training – the update

Mar21
2011 Written by Mauldor

In respect to the last post Joining a Gym – I thought I would update people on my progress. I have a few goals in mind, one is to train for the CareIT Challenge in June 2011, the other is to get stronger, bigger, fitter. My First week of the gym was as expected not training to the full potential due to the fact I either never knew what the machines did and also I had no plan of attack in what area’s to train. What this means was I jumped from machine to machine training random muscles and missing half the machines due to having no idea what they did. Of course to get the most out of this experience, I needed to find a guide to show me what to do – and this I did.

Posted in Fitness - Tagged 5-day, bike, CareIT, Challange, fitness, gym, Muscle, power, running, schedule

Justin.TV taking a few wrong turns?

Mar20
2011 Written by Mauldor

The Streaming site Justin.TV has made a few core changes “for the good of the end users” and this has caused some head scratching in my behalf as to why would they feel that these would be a “good” thing? The first thing they did is introduce a new player which now has a constant bar on the bottom.

This means when you embed the player, instead of been hidden away (the controls) until you need them – they are right in your face. My Guess is too many people had no idea where the volume control was and such on the old player. Next up we have splitting of Chat rooms – when it feels there is too many in one room, it puts you in room 2 and so forth. What this means is the mods will be in room 1 while people are going wild in room 2. I have not come across an IRC Server that has problems with 200+ people in and feels the need to split into more rooms, I have no idea what this achieves. Lastly then – the IOS Justin.TV player / broadcaster which used to be free is now $4.99 – wow is all I can say and I suspect nobody will buy this anytime soon.

I also heard (through the grapevine) that they are extending the channel bans for anyone playing music, a lot of people play music in the background and banning them will drive people away. They have to do this I guess for copyright issues.

Posted in Streaming - Tagged application, chat, ios, irc, justin.tv, limits, paid, Player, rooms, Streaming

Browser Shootout, which is best?

Mar17
2011 Written by Mauldor

The great thing about web browsers is they are all free and in reality you can load as many as you want on whatever operating system you choose. Recently though we had Internet Explorer V9 released to the world, we had Firefox V4 RC and finally Chrome is at Version 10 I think. You can scour the web and find benchmarks and these shows (Depending on which site they used to test them) that <insert browser name here> is the best. I want to explore this from my own personal view point, both in a work situation and at home and show that indeed, there is not one clear winner.

Posted in Tech - Tagged adverts, blocking, browser, chrome, crash, explorer, extentions, fast, firefox, google, plug-ins, safari, slow, speed, tab

More Testing Microsoft Lifecam Studio Webcam

Mar17
2011 Written by Mauldor

I had a further chance to test out the Microsoft Lifecam Studio HD webcam in a setting outside of the office and into a bedroom lit environment. The first of my problems was with Wirecast, I was going to use the switching ability of Wirecast to swap between both webcam’s and microphones on the fly to give a balanced view of the webcam. Wirecast failed to show this webcam, they suspected I have too many USB webcams plugged in but I tired on a fresh system with only this webcam and still nothing – so I gave up on that idea. At least I now know that if you were thinking of buying it and use Wirecast – then you will be out of luck.

I used the software that came with each camera to record a short clip, the purpose here show the quality of each webcam and how the in-built microphone would sound. The goal of course is to aid the people who might have seen this webcam on offer in a store, been lured by the word HD and parting cash with it. read on after the break on how it looks and how I found it.

Posted in Tech - Tagged 9000, in-built, lifecam, lighting, logitech, microphone, microsoft, pro, studio

Preparing to Leave T-Mobile

Mar09
2011 Written by Mauldor

If every there was a time I am happy I made at last one good decision and it was when I choose to only be locked into a mobile contract for 18 Months instead of 24. In my time so far with T-Mobile and buying into the Android market, I have disappointed by both and this has made me turn to buying into the competition. As I have not had a contract mobile before, I went into the local T-Mobile store and once he worked out that I already was a customer and was asking about leaving, his whole attitude towards me changed, not the jolly salesman any-more. He asked me to send a text message to 150 with the word UP and it tells you what it runs out. As it turns out, on the 4th April 2011, I have to call them up and give them a month’s notice.

Posted in Personal - Tagged android, contract, orange, shop, store, t-mobile, termination

Today I Joined A Gym

Mar07
2011 Written by Mauldor

For some time I have been using the Loose weights, punch bag and my multi bar to train best I can and while this goes some way into providing a great work out, it cannot complete with the complete set of equipment that a typical gym can provide. What made me choose to join a gym was quite funny actually, as I was clearing out my garage of Junk, I managed to throw away the piece of foam + carpet I used on the floor – this meant some of my daily workout could not be done – I bit the bullet and finally looked around for a gym.

What was important to me in choosing the right one was it had to be local, no driving 10 miles just to get there. The next step was the overall cost, a lot of them charge a joining fee plus a monthly fee and separate payments for other parts such as Sauna for example. I looked at one and this was £40 to join (special offer) and £52 a month – wow. The local council one was £20 joining fee plus a choice of per usage fee of £4.50, a monthly fee of £35 with no fixed term and finally cheaper if you signed up for 8 months. Finally I choose one that a person at work goes to, this is simply £35 a month cash up front or £25 a month if you sign up by direct debt for one year. They had a whole rafter of machines, loose weights, running machines, sunbed and so forth. I enjoyed my hour I spent there getting used to the machine, plan to Go Monday, Wednesday and Friday with running on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday – Sunday as they say is a day of rest.

Posted in Fitness - Tagged fitness, gym, local, machine, monthly, rowing, running, session, weights

Thinking about buying 27″ iMac Core i7

Mar06
2011 Written by Mauldor

Until recently, I had not really looked into buying any sort of apple computer mainly because my current system does everything I want and I do have the ability to run OSX on either a hackintosh if needed or a Virtual machine. I had passed a 21.5″ iMac in the local ‘Comet’ Store and it looked very clear and glossy and it got me thinking. I looked on Apple refurbished site and saw various models of the 27″ with £200 to £400 off. At this point we start to drop into the world of which version is worth the money, if any.

Posted in Apple - Tagged allinone, clear, core, hyper threading, iMac, intel, jobs, large, leopard, Mac, osx, snow

Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo now out

Mar03
2011 Written by Mauldor

Head to the EA Site to grab the PC Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo.

Posted in Gaming - Tagged crysis, demo, multiplayer, pc, windows, xbox

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Monthly archives for March, 2011

Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box Serial Problem

The Day my HTC Hero died

Fitness Training – the update

Justin.TV taking a few wrong turns?

Browser Shootout, which is best?

More Testing Microsoft Lifecam Studio Webcam

Preparing to Leave T-Mobile

Today I Joined A Gym

Thinking about buying 27″ iMac Core i7

Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo now out

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