Firstly, I’ll start by apologising to anyone who visited this site over the past year or more since it was infected by a trojan/virus. Hopefully you were sensible and had adequate anti-virus protection and were not infected. I thought I’d better give an explanation for why the site had been down for several days… A …
Category Archive: Tech
Sep
30
New Tech Projects
I’m kicking off a couple of ‘hands on’ IT projects over the next few weeks. Numero Uno will be to upgrade my PS3 Hard Drive from it’s stock 40GB drive to a Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB drive. That should give me plenty of space for all those PSN downloads and Guitar Hero songs and improve …
Sep
12
Setting for Virgin Mobile Data
Apologies again to the regular readers of this site, but in the past I’ve blogged about the technical resolutions to many of the problems I’ve had and it’s turned out that many others have the same problem. We’re in Melbourne! I picked up a couple of Virgin Mobile Sim Cards with the plan of using …
Jul
06
UC Browser Review
Skyfire (my previous browser of choice) killed off it’s services for New Zealand a few days ago, so I’ve been trialling UC Browser. So far I think it’ll fill my needs as a Windows Mobile alternate browser to IE. For some people the lack of flash support will be a deal breaker, but I wasn’t …
Jun
29
Cobra 700af on Canon 400d
Our family and friends will have to excuse me again for a second while I make a post for the “internet”. [This post probably also applied to getting the Cobra 700af flash to work on the earlier and later models such as the 350d, and 450d as well as the American models such as rebel, …
Apr
10
Hacked
Our blog was hacked (probably by a tool, not a person) today. Not cool, not cool at all [looks over his shoulder]. Edit: The fix to this seems to be to update the wordpress tool used to run this site. This will involve some downtime, which may stretch to days if I can’t easily fix …