How to Install Third-Party Apps on Your New iPhone or iPod Touch

Feature: How to Install Third-Party Apps on Your New iPhone or iPod Touch

Clocks

Speaking of Jaycar – the reason I went in there was that my son wanted to buy a new clock.

I bought him one of those cool oscillating LED clocks a couple of years ago. They use persistance of vision to make the time appear floating in mid air.

We noticed Jaycar had a new one – a bit pricey at AU$70 but he was going to pay from his own money so we went to buy it.

Got home and powered it up – its a beautiful looking clock with one MAJOR flaw. It continually shows an add for the Australian distributor – ELECTUS DISTRIBUTION.

Now if it was a small minor ad it wouldnt matter so much – but the Damn add shows every couple of seconds and is displayed longer than the time is.

I rang ELECTUS and they said it was a mistake when they ordered the clocks – the manufactor burnt the message into the ROM and it cant be turned off. SO WHY THE HELL ARE THEY SELLING IT ????

Needless to say I returned it the same day – again borderline criminal IMHO this sort of crap they pull.

They clock was a nice looker though…

Mains Power Meter

Just picked up on of these from Jaycar the other day…

I’ve always wanted one – it lets you see how much power different electrical devices are using in your house.

The biggest shock was the digital set top boxes. All 3 that I have use the same amount of power on and when on ’standby’ – around 60 watts.

It’s borderline criminal IMHO when companies make devices that do this sort of crap.

You can find out more about this device here.

Hollywood meets pen testing – again

OMG – how overhyped is this….

Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Add more power to 10.5’s screen sharing

Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Add more power to 10.5’s screen sharing

Cool tip to add more power to Leopard screen sharing

ReadyNAS :: View topic – *NEW* RAIDiator 4.00c1-p2 available

ReadyNAS :: View topic – *NEW* RAIDiator 4.00c1-p2 available

Well – its seems as if there was some problems with p1 of the V4 Infrant NAS release. This is the updated version.

I just update mine and all is well. Hopefully I will get some time over the Christmas break to play with VMware ESX using the Infrant as an NFS store for the VMDK images…

Live traffic cams

Live traffic cams | The Courier-Mail |

Found this cool link yesterday showing all the traffic camera in Brisvegas.

No more w*nking at work

Very funny Video – Not Safe for work (or around young kids)

VMware Communities: Virtual Appliances: Ubuntu releases JeOS

VMware Communities: Virtual Appliances: Ubuntu releases JeOS

Interesting – cut down version of Ubuntu special made for Virtual Machines.

Haven’t had a chance to try it out yet.

Paste text without the formatting into a Word document – Help and How-to – Microsoft Office Online

Paste text without the formatting into a Word document – Help and How-to – Microsoft Office Online

This used to ALWAYS bug me. How to change Word so that the default paste is unformatted text.

REALLY REALLY handy when you get a lot of content from HTML pages and want to keep your document formatting