Spotted earlier today over at Pocket-lint …

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I spend a fair amount of my personal free time these days cleaning up Windows PCs for friends and family  that run absurdly slow often because various spyware programs have been accidently loaded.  It’s very easy to wave a finger and ‘blame the dumb user’ yet often the user has been duped by an unscrupulous [...]

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As a young boy I couldn’t wait for Santa to deliver my presents, In my twenties as a parent I actually was Santa, And now I’m in my (early) fifties I’m starting to look like Santa. sigh… (Kids – you can Track santa Live on Google Maps here …)

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A family related post for a change — my oldest daughter (Emily) and her boyfriend Rob participated in this year’s  Portsmouth 48-Hour Film Challenge.  Amateur film makers around the South were challenged to make a short film  in just 48 hours, This year’s brief was: Title: Blood on the moon Genre: B-Movie (as in well [...]

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If you been using the Nokia E51 as a tethered 3G bluetooth modem but found it a bit hit & miss you may find the usb option seems to be a more consitant connection method. To set it up you’ll first need to download the Nokia E51 isync plugin and run it once. Next, plug the the [...]

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For any MSI Wind owners out there running OS X, if yours has the RTL8187SE wifi card there’s some fab news – the OS X driver is now available.  Click here to download..

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oRipa Screen Recorder , a neat little Windows screen recorder for those times when you need to record your mouse clicks, keyboard actions and screen output into a small movie. The program also captures any sound coming from your PC and allows you record a voice over etc.  Download here (1MB) And as ever it’s [...]

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