More and more these days I find just surfing the Internet to be a little dull on it’s own, I’m sure this is another symptom of the Attention Defecit Disorder that modern technology provides but I always find myself needing to do something else beyond just surfing.  So what do I do?  If I can […]

Whilst on the way to the Video Games Live show at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank a friend and I happened across Mr. David Bingham and his Magic Rug. David and his friend have been touring around the country (well, Glasto and London at least) with a rug and encouraging people to […]

I just checked the news again and aparrently there’s a financial crisis on.  Still.  The ‘credit crunch’ as it’s being called is the biggest gift the world could ever have given to the 24-hour rolling news readers, economists and other financial pundits, it’s pretty much all I hear: morning, noon and night.  Whilst watching BBC […]

I’ve been an amateur photographer for coming up to two years now, starting with my Canon 400D I’ve learned a great deal about the subject including how light works, how to compose a photo, how to work the camera, how to post-process, how to build HDRs, etc. etc.  The problem is that sometimes it’s easy […]

I recently attended the BMF motorbike show near Peterborough, at the event I captured around an hour of HD video (1080i) on my Canon HV20 camcorder and I wanted to create a couple of YouTube videos to share the experience.  Being an awkward type I decided that iMovie just wouldn’t cut it, I’m not against […]

Having had my Canon 400D for around a year and a half now I no longer consider myself a beginner, I’d say perhaps that I’m an intermediate-level amateur and so I’d like to share what I think are my 10 top tips that I’ve learned over the past year or so. I appreciate […]

All you have to do is dial these on your mobile phone (press up on the D-Pad twice to get ‘manual dial’ mode)…
Advanced Weapons - GUN-555-0100
Climate Change - HOT-555-0100
Health - DOC-555-0100
Health And Weapons - GTA-555-0100
Spawn Cognoscenti (Mafia Car) - CAR-555-0142
Spawn Sanchez (Dirt Bike) - MBK-555-0150
Spawn FBI Buffalo - CAR-555-0100
Spawn Turismo - CAR-555-0147
Spawn NRG900 - MBK-555-0100
Spawn […]

In November 2006 Microsoft added the ability to have your Xbox 360 automatically download new Xbox Live Arcade trial games, it’s a great feature but for too long I’ve just let it stack up with millions of trial games and it’s about time I sorted the wheat from the chaff and decided if there’s anything […]

I decided to install Drupal on my web server and instead of downloading the install files to my desktop, unzipping them and then uploading them back to the web server (which takes ages over ADSL) I thought I’d have a go at downloading them manually over SSH. In effect SSH is a method of connecting […]

The original Gran Turismo game was a triumph in my eyes, the first time a game had ever made driving feel even remotely realistic and it was the main reason I bought a Playstation. I spent hours and hours tuning up cars and racing the same tracks repeatedly to gain minor improvements or to win […]