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What is the purpose of Facebook?

Jun07
2011 Written by Mauldor

Facebook has been around for some time now and it overtook MySpace back in the day. It works by you added people for which they have to accept and any posts that people do, be it a simple line of text, a video or photo’s – will appear in the time-line. It went further of later as it allowed you to put people into groups and then instead of writing a post that made no sense to work people, you can specify Family only for example.

I like to think Facebook is a big bulletin board that people you know can leave messages on detailing what they are doing, post new pictures and so forth. It is ideal for example if someone just had a new baby and everybody can get to see the pictures quickly. My question though is this – “Just what do you write on Facebook Status updates that people won’t deem boring?”

Tagged facebook, friends, usage

Running out of Tech Items to buy

May08
2011 Written by Mauldor

There was a time when I was either looking on-line or in a large Tech store (such as PC World) and I would be looking at items I had no idea I needed but somehow bought anyhow to add to my collection. Eventually though, you can et to a point when the more sensible side of you asks that question in your head “Do I need yet another external hard drive?”. I think it depends on what items you buy in the first place that can cut down in the number of “other” items you need to buy and eventually as I stated, you walk around and see nothing on offer that you seriously need and thus save your hard earned money.

Tagged better, faster, impulse, nextgen, store, Tech

Trying out Twitter again

Feb20
2011 Written by Mauldor

In my time I had I think Three Twitter accounts (maybe even more) and for one reason or another I changed them, de-activated them or just plain never used them. Now my view of Twitter is a pointless exercise in life and I feel the people who use twitter to tell you about every second of there life probably do not have a social life were they interact with real humans. I do not understand why anyone would need to know that I have woken up, eating my breakfast, going to work, arrived at work, having lunch and so forth. Anyhow – I shall have another go at this and as my previous accounts are all now lost, I created a New One – Called LiquidTV. Fell free to Follow, I will follow back.

Tagged liquidtv, media, social, tweet, twitter

Libraries under threat–what next?

Feb05
2011 Written by Mauldor

Today in the news we have a story that says in the UK 400 libraries are under threat of closure. Does this news surprise anyone much in the same way we hear the the post office is not doing as much business as it used to in the day before computer? When was the last time you went out and spent time in an library and borrowed a book? I recall my past when I used to head down to the libirary to first read the latest computer magazines (which had been handled by many people before me – think of the germs crossing over there) and the loaning some computer books. I remember not been able to have enough time to read the books and more often then not returning them without having read through them all or having to pay a fine when I was late bringing them back.

Tagged amazon, blockbusters, email, library, pdf, technology

Online vs Retail store

Dec19
2010 Written by Mauldor

The purpose of this post is to examine shopping (in this case for Playstation 3 games) either on-line or in a store and how in my eye’s the brick and mortar stores need to re-think how they operate if they want to keep selling items. If you are shopping for say a TV, then it is nice to walk into a store and see how they look but in the case of software, what you get in the store is the same as you get on-line. I would also love to hear what you do, only ever buy online, rent games, store or whatever.

Posted in Gaming - Tagged game, Gaming, online, ps3, store, toys-r-us

Steam versus Retail Store

Nov15
2010 Written by Mauldor

Steam is the service created by Vale who in turn make games such as Half-Life and TeamFortress (plus many others of course). Recently over at Tom’s Hardware I read a story about Game Stores View Valve’s Steam as the Devil - The basics of the story is that a Major UK Game Retailer in the UK are upset enough by Steam to threaten that they will not carry any product that carry any Steam integration – I am having a guess here that the store in question is Game maybe? I might be wrong, but how about we look at buying a game via a store verus buying the same title over the Steam Service.

Tagged box, game, online, playstation, real, shop, steam, store, transaction, UK, xbox

What to look for in Car Insurance

Nov12
2010 Written by Mauldor

I am not sure how well this may translate across the world as each country I am sure is different on the subject of insuring a car but I wanted to write about a few points that have bitten myself and others in the past when dealing with car insurance. In the UK at least, it is the law that you have valid insurance for you car and this comes as either Fully Comprehensive or 3rd party – most people I know have Fully Comprehensive. I am in no way an expert on insurance and I do not sell or endorse any company out there – this is just my own experience of when it all goes wrong.

Tagged car, crash, insurance, lost, mis-sold, shocked, stolen, theft

An Apple for Christmas

Nov03
2010 Written by Mauldor

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.

Posted in Macintosh, Tech - Tagged Apple, christmas, expensive, gift, iMac, Mac, money, price, xmas

Fixing computers for friends and family

Oct23
2010 Written by Mauldor

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?

Tagged broken, cheap, laptop, time

Moving back to Firefox

Oct17
2010 Written by Mauldor

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.

Tagged adverts, annoying, browser, chrome, explorer, fast, firefox, google, popups, slow

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Posts in category Thoughts

What is the purpose of Facebook?

Running out of Tech Items to buy

Libraries under threat–what next?

Online vs Retail store

Steam versus Retail Store

What to look for in Car Insurance

An Apple for Christmas

Fixing computers for friends and family

Moving back to Firefox

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