Sorry due to a server failure we have been offline since last night, but we’re back…
The Matrix is run on Windows
Quite amusing.
Upgraded to JoikuSpot Premium
After using JoikuSpot Light for a while now and being very pleased with the ease of use and getting my devices online. Despite the impact it has on the battery life of my Nokia N95 I decided to upgrade to the Premium version.
The Light version only really does internet, it doesn’t allow e-mail for example, whereas the Premium version does.
The Premium version also doesn’t have a splash or landing page, which means I am hoping it will work with the Nokia N810.
Not tried it yet, but after paying for it, downloaded and passed ito the N95, I needed to reboot the phone.
Want to have some fun…
If you have the time, the energy, the MacBook and a Windows 7 disk, you can have some fun too, according to PC Magazine Labs.
Here we are sitting in the PC Magazine Labs, and it occurs to us: We’ve got a shiny new Macbook Pro and an early build of Windows 7 on disc, so why not attempt to use one to run the other?
So how many photographs?
Would you believe that three billion photographs have been uploaded to Flickr? And not all by me!
Wrote about this on e-Learning Stuff.
WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked
Well it had to happen one day!
According to a report from PCWorld Magazine WPA has been broken.
Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks.
Read more.
Changing the battery
On my old G4 PowerBook, changing the battery was a piece of cake. Shut the lid, wait until the light glowed, then remove the flat battery and replace it with a fully charged battery, lift the lid and back to work…
With the MacBook Pro you can’t do this… in theory it is suppose to suspend the computer and save the current state if you remove and replace the battery in the same way as I use to with the G4 Powerbook. However from my experience it is very much a 50/50 chance that what will actually happen is that replacing the battery will result in needing to boot the MacBook Pro. Of course this means that any unsaved work is not saved.
Annoying.
The problem is that (as far as I am aware) there is not a way to set the state of suspension manually, you have to let the computer do it.
As a result I do like the hibernation mode that you find on Windows laptops, very easy to replace the battery then, though it can take an age to resume from hibernation.
Ooops I missed Spooks
I knew Spooks was coming back this autumn, however not watching much on the television recently meant I didn’t see any trailers. Nor did I get a newspaper either, so didn’t know that it was on tonight at 9pm.
Years ago it would have been a problem as I would have to wait until repeats.
Now we have a few technologies which make it much easier.
I could wait until it appears on DVD, though generally with BBC programmes it takes a long time to get onto DVD.
With Freeview I can watch repeats on BBC Three later this week…
And of course BBC iPlayer means I can watch it now, less than 30 minutes after it finished on BBC One.
Cool.
No joy with Nokia N810 and JoikuSpot
I have been using JoikuSpot for a few weeks now, with great success with an iPod touch, works a treat.
Decided today to see if I could use it with a Nokia N810.
Hmmm.
Well, no I couldn’t. For some reason though it could connect to the JoikuSpot wireless network, it would not get to the JoikuSpot launch page and as a result no other internet access was possible.
The Pro version may work, but if it uses a launch page then I am guessing it still won’t work.
Levelator
If you are combining recordings or have multiple inputs into a recording it can be a real nightmare to get the levels right. Now you could spend a lot of time and money mixing in the different recordings, however a quick and easy method is to use Levelator.
It’s software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux (Ubuntu) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better.
Find out more about Levelator.