I bought a Squeezebox (Wireless Network Music Player) years ago. It’s got a web interface where you can view your music collection, add tracks to a playlist, change the volume etc… and I wanted a quick way to access it from my browser which didn’t mean navigating away from the page I was viewing. So, [...]
I was recently tidying up some “duplicate” entries in my mobile phonebook because when my phone downloaded all my contacts from Facebook, it didn’t link them all. For some reason you can’t just add a mobile number or any additional information to the Facebook contact, so I was looking for a way to merge the [...]
Windows 7 includes a new feature which allows you to hover over your taskbar icons, then middle click the thumbnail to close the program (similar functionality to closing Firefox tabs etc with a middle click). It annoyed me slightly having to click the thumbnail, rather than just being able to middle click the taskbar icon [...]
I recently gave in to temptation and bought a PS3. Got a package with InFamous, Killzone 2 and Resistance 2. Loving it so far, definitely still keeping the Xbox 360 as well though. Anyway, onto the real reason I was posting this. I’ve been looking for ages now for something that would play MKV files [...]
It never ceases to amaze me the ideas people come up with when they’re in need of money for someone or something. Recently saw this site buyacredit. It’s an idea conjured up by three guys that wanted to make a movie, basically you pay to have your name put on the end credits, in turn [...]
Dark Eye, originally uploaded by Tiestarian. Just testing out the blog functionality from Flickr. Only recently started using Flickr to host my photos but it’s really nice so far. Much easier than creating a gallery manually anyway, and hopefully they’ll get more views on there. This is a picture of my Mum’s dog. Taken with [...]
This is another assignment I had to do for uni. We had to use a lamp similar to the one you see at the start of Pixar movies and animate it in any way we wanted. I decided to do a Mario style theme! It’s my first ever animation so it’s still very rough around [...]
Found another cool application the other day, it’s similar to Last.fm in the fact you can stream music and find similar artists you might enjoy etc. You can also stream full albums, add music to a queue and create playlists. The quality isn’t perfect but it’s listenable, much better than most free “web” services. This [...]
Just found a site where you can stream TV. It’s live and totally free.. well apart from the TV license fee of course *cough*. I really wish this had been available last year when I had crap reception most of the time! TVCatchup – Free, Live TV Streams
This is another assignment we got at uni recently for a 3D modelling module. These were created in a free piece of software called POV-Ray.