Google Chrome – Not living up to the Hype
Feb 23rd
I had noticed a couple of problems when using my otherwise fine Firefox 3.6, one been the pause when you first go to a page and the other was the browser crashing when trying to view Justin.TV Archives function (when it got to the end of the segment).
I was tempted to try Google Chrome after everybody told me how good it was, faster, better and all round amazing. Could I take Chrome and make it my main browsing platform? Had it come a long way since I last tried it? Did it use a lot less memory and was it more secure?
Multi Computer organisation
Feb 23rd
I am going to try and explain what I have learned over the many years of using many computers – to try and present what I feel is a good layout for your media so that you stop loosing important files by silly mistakes. While this is not the be all and end all of how to use a computer, it will help you stop having duplicates, needing to keep backing up multiple times and pay for services online.
Creating your own Half Life 2 Server on Linux
Feb 22nd
My Aim here is not to write from scratch what you cannot already find by using Google but rather try and get it all in one place. Half Life 2 Death Match can be gained for Free – so first let us get that:
For ATI/AMD (Radeon) graphic card users: install – storefront
For Nvidia (GeForce) graphic card users: install – storefront
Now let us begin on our quest to get a server up and running on Linux, I am going to assume you have access to a Linux box to complete this part.
The case of the hacked Steam account
Feb 19th
For those that are no in the know – Steam is the company that runs the servers and account details of games such as Half Life 2 and such – the FULL game list I have linked. When you buy a game that is Steam enabled, when you go to install you need a steam account and that game (plus serial) is now linked to that account. If anything happens to this account – the game on the shelf is of no use, you cannot play without that account or re-register another account and install. This works most of the time but what happens when it all goes wrong? Read on for my complete story so far..
Sumvision Cyclone MKV FULL 1080p HD Player
Feb 19th
Spotted this on bigpockets.co.uk for £69.99 – seems like a good deal and a good device.
Supports All Popular HD Video
This product supports all popular 1080p HD video in the market, including H.264, MKV, Divx HD,
MPEG 2-TS, VC-1, WMV9, then you can enjoy HD video on your HD TV by HDMI interface.
Supports USB Host And LAN Samba Client
With a USB2.0 high speed host build-in, you can plug in your USB storage devices like USB hard
disk, USB flash drive and MP3 player to extend more storage space and playback your media direct
from these USB storage. Thanks to Samba supporting in this product, you can navigate your media
stored in your PC and playback them on TV, this is much helpful in sharing your media at home.
Icy Box Docking Station SATA HDD
Feb 17th
One of my recent purchases was this Icy Box Docking Station for 2.3” + 3.5” HDD which features a SATA + USB Interface. I bought this one from Aria UK for £18. I already own a 3.5” SATA Drive bay which features USB & eSATA but did not have the eSATA Lead and there is no way I was going to spend loads on postage just for a cheap lead. Having a handful of loose 2.5” SATA Drives hanging about as well as some 3.5” Models plus the Dell I own having eSATA built in as standard – I was good to go.
Write your Own Adobe Air Application
Feb 15th
You want to create your own Adobe Air Application which you can distribute to your friends, say for example an application to let people watch your stream? I followed a quick guide online using nothing more then Notepad and dos prompt and ended off with an Application that runs on all platforms.
Linux Mint 8 – another day at the office
Feb 14th
If you look at the last story on the Toshiba 1800-400 Laptop, you would have seen how I never managed to get an Old laptop working at all on Linux, in this instance Windows XP gives you a VGA driver before installing any chipset drivers, which means you can at least see what is going on and it does not crash when you insert a PCMCIA Card. Today, I thought I would install the same Linux Mint 8 on a desktop computer, surely this would work much better right?
Toshiba Satellite S1800-400
Feb 13th
I remember buying this laptop back in 2001, I had just started a contract position were I was doing project management and required my own computer. I was in Dixons in MeadowHall and they had this laptop on offer at a much reduced price (cannot remember the price I paid back then). My thought was it was made by Toshiba and would do the job specified. I recently grabbed this machine out of storage to see what I can do with it – I had an idea to use it for a Linux box of some sort.
Adobe FMLE 3.1 RC1 Mac
Feb 9th
Release Candidate of Flash Media Encoder 3.1 for the Mac – Grab it here…
Adobe® Flash® Media Live Encoder 3 live audio and video capture software is a media encoder that streams audio and video in real time to Flash Media Server software or Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS). When high-quality streaming is your priority, Flash Media Live Encoder 3 can help you broadcast live events and around-the-clock broadcasting