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Ruby Skye Glenn – Growing Up So Fast!

Just a quick post today because I haven’t posted any news on Ruby since her birth back in May of last year! She is growing up extremely fast and she has just recently learnt to crawl! Here are a few pictures of my gorgeous baby...

Animoto – The End Of Slideshows

Just a quick post today, basically about a new service I have found called Animoto. Animoto is an online service that allows you to upload images and music to produce a sort of slideshow on steroids. The coolest thing about Animoto though, is that it actually analyzes your music and times transitions to the beats! Also,...

5 Tips For Building Your Twitter Network

Recently I’ve become a bit of a Twitter fanatic, but building a large Twitter Network wasn’t really something I initially thought to be useful. However, after reading many articles on the value a large and targeted network of followers can bring, I decided to begin looking for useful hints and tips on ways to go...

Money Saving Tricks – New YouTube Broadcast

Well I thought I should mention on my blog that I have started a new weekly YouTube broadcast (I haven’t taken to calling it a “show” yet!) called Money Saving Tricks. Basically, they are small (Approx. 3 minutes long) episodes that explain various ways that you can start saving money immediately. Money Saving Tricks Episode 1:...

Want a free Macbook? Of course you do!

So recently I have been teasing myself each and every day by browsing the Mac section of the Apple store, knowing I do not have the money at the moment to buy one. However, the thought sprang to mind about all those free ipod give away sites that were seen in the news a few...

O2 Simplicity… Could be simpler…

As you may or may not be aware, I recently purchased an iPhone 3G and currently have it on an O2 Pay As You Go Text Anytime tariff. It’s a good tariff, but I can’t access the web when I am away from a WiFi spot which is really annoying. So, I decided I wanted to...

CHKDSK Nightmares!

About 2 weeks ago I noticed a problem when I turned on my laptop. It wanted to run CHKDSK, but when it did it just kept repeating the following line, over and over again. Inserting an index entry into index $0 of file 25 So I ended up rebooting my laptop and skipping CHKDSK the next time,...

MMORPG Fever Strikes Back

Ok, it’s been a few months since my last post which was ironically about me quiting mmorpgs for good… But, like a true addict I have gave in to my cravings… Sad, but true… I finally broke yesterday when I installed World of Warcraft on my laptop because there were no other games installed on it...

Bye Bye MMORPGs

Well the time has come for me to finally say goodbye to MMORPGs. I have played so many over the past 6 years, I have literally lost count. It has taken me that long, however, to realise that they are all essentially the same thing… A fancy number game. Whilst they are fun for a while, they...

Storage Galore With The 1TB Samsung SpinPoint

Just a quick update on the status of my latest PC build. I recently purchased a 1TB Samsung SpinPoint HDD from ebuyer for around £80 – http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288. I managed to successfully clone my OS and all it’s data from my old 250GB HDD over to the new 1TB HDD using Norton Ghost, and it’s all working perfectly. The...