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An Apple for Christmas

Nov03
2010 Written by Tom Mac

Before we begin, the story is not about me buying an Apple for Christmas, this is a tale of the ‘normal’ people view of apple, what there children are asking for and the shock factor when you tell them how much they cost, what they do and probably why there children want one. By the way – the picture above – Designed and hand-built by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the Apple I was Apple’s first product, and went on sale in July 1976 at the distinctly unsettling price of $666.66. Only 200 units were produced, and unlike many other computers of the day, the Apple I came as a fully assembled circuit board containing around 30 chips.

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Fixing computers for friends and family

Oct23
2010 Written by Tom Mac

I have worked in I.T. for most of my working life and basically people expect you to fix there computer for them – either for free or very cheap indeed. As well as fixing computers, we also have the on-demand computer expert when they are buying something, such as a Laptop or a Printer for example. It might start off with just the odd person but eventually you can be sitting with 3 Laptops to fix when in reality you should be doing something more productive. How does it build up and why are computers different from says cars for example?

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Moving back to Firefox

Oct17
2010 Written by Tom Mac

There was a time I stood by Firefox as my browser of choice and when using at various places I work, it was frowned upon, I should be using IE after all right? Google Chrome came along and at first I failed to see the point of this browser and carried on using Firefox until 3.6 Series. I finally took a look at using Chrome on a daily basis and it *almost* managed to win me over while Firefox kept updating in the background.

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XBOX vs PS3 – which to get?

Oct16
2010 Written by Tom Mac

In my time I have owned a PS1, a Nintendo 64 (Complete with Doctor 64), Dreamcast and an XBOX and out of all of these, I still have the Dreamcast which works fine (It came from Hong Kong) but of course the years have not treated it well and the games look a bit ‘basic’ to say the least. Recently though I have been thinking and looking at the console on offer, I think what caught my eye was while in GameStation, I saw some ‘pre-owned’ XBOX360 Elite for £99. In the last few weeks then, I have been toying with the idea of buying a box, not sure why I would want one but lets go through some of my thought process anyhow and see how this pans out.

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Goodbye Skype

Oct04
2010 Written by Tom Mac

I thought I would take a break from Tech for this one post and go through some changes of late, some good, some bad and as always “Everything changes” as they say. The Blog is going well, I am looking forward to my first cheque from Google Adsense (which only took me three years to hit the required minimum of £60) – money for nothing right? I do hate adverts and I hate having them on here but they are required evil to keep the site going – Sorry…

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Are Netbooks Dying out?

Sep16
2010 Written by Tom Mac

I have heard the USA Based Tech Hosts declare that the end of notebooks is in sight and they serve no real purpose in life and things such as the Apple iPad will overtake the notebook market by next year. I own a netbook myself (the first gen Acer One) and while it does serve some handy purposes, it is not about to replace my laptop any time soon. Do you think the bell’s are sounding for Netbooks as yet another passing fad or do you think they are here to stay?

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Taekwondo – the first two Lessons

Jun09
2010 Written by Tom Mac

I had my first two lessons of Taekwondo on Monday and Tuesday and thought it would be a good idea to write up how it went in case anyone else was thinking of starting something but not sure what might happen on them first few lessons. At the moment the place were I train does not force you to join straight away and you can just pay your fee per night (£3) fora 2 hour lesson and if you do not enjoy it – no commitment to yourself. Let us begin then with how it all went.

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June 2010 – word up.

Jun06
2010 Written by Tom Mac

First for all the people that follow my blog, I would like to say sorry for the lack of posts of late, while I could have just re-posted news stories from other sources, I would prefer to write my own stuff if I can. As we move forward into Summer 2010, I have a feeling that people are moving away from there computers and back to the outside world and many have started to get fit, me included. The purpose of this post is to keep anybody who is wondering updated on my latest goings-on – enjoy…

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What happened to Ron Knights?

May09
2010 Written by Tom Mac

Ron Knights produced a Weekly live ‘Tech’ Show – this used to be every Friday at 8pm EST and Saturday at 3pm EST (to cater for the European audience). Ron’s inability to deal with people meant he would block people out of his life (including me) for the smallest thing possible. He swapped from Ustream to Justin.tv – after all the Tech Buzz and all the others had done so right? He even paid the Tech Buzz some money to be part of the IRC Network – the goal here was to live in a Troll free environment as it was managed IRC server and once a person is banned – they are banned across the network.

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DVD is Dead

Apr26
2010 Written by Tom Mac

As time moves forward, so does technology and with it the need to store data on something that may last. I only just read about floppies finally dying (though I still have a USB Model and a box full of blanks) and I thought I would pass my thoughts on the media that I use today and why I feel that CD-R and DVD-R may as well be dead too.

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