Do you ever need to rename a lot of files in a particular way? I have a utility to help out…
I was trying to rip CDs to MP3 for my Creative Nomad player tonight. I normally use FreeRip which does an excellent job and is highly customisable, but it couldn’t seem to fetch the CD […]
Those nice people at EA Games have decided to celebrate the 12th Anniversary of Command and Conquer by giving it away.
Point your browser here.
Word of warning - it does seem to be running slow on the servers at the moment.
I downloaded a beta of Apple’s Safari browser which has been newly released for Windows. I’ve heard quite a lot about Safari from Mac fans, so eager to try it.
My first observation is that it looks terrible. I don’t know if this is how it looks on a Mac, but the contrast of the menu/address […]
I’m more of a developer than a designer, so my needs for graphics tools are limited. It’s mostly resizing, making a large text image and perhaps a little image retouching. I don’t need Photoshop, and I find GIMP unfriendly.
So, I’m glad I came across Paint.net. It’s a Windows-based image manipulation tool that runs on Windows […]
There’s been quite some discussion around the decision by Microsoft to send out some very nice top-of-the-range Acer Ferrari laptops preloaded with Windows Vista to a number of high ranking bloggers.
I’ve had a little think on the subject, and I’ve decided that it doesn’t do any favours to accept such gifts. Even as "review products". […]
For some time now, I’ve been using my Nokia smartphone to read my Gmail. Google already made it easier, having a specially lightweight page for mobile browsers to keep it nice and quick.
They’ve now released a specific application called Gmail App which allows you to retrieve the mail on the phone, and because it’s a […]
I only recently discovered that Ed Wood’s craptacular Plan 9 from Outer Space is in the public domain. It was made in 1959, so should still be under copyright. However, I think that the US copyright used to require renewal, and I presume that someone thought it had no value.
It’s often considered as one of […]
I’m off to see a couple of bands in the next few weeks. One of them, The Piney Gir Country Roadshow is quite open about their music, and have a few MP3s available for download at 3hive. Personally, I like Greetings, Salutations, Goodbyes. There’s also more on emusic.
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I generally avoid the free DVDs in newspapers. Mostly, they’re terrible movies.
However, in Saturday’s (9th Sep 2006) Times (London) there is a free DVD of the brilliant Belleville Rendez-Vous, a French animation. It’s mostly silent with language more as expressions (like Jaques Tati), so you don’t have to stare at subtitles.
It is a more mature […]
On Google Video, the whole of Milton Friedman’s TV series "Free to Choose".
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