Posts Tagged ‘geek goodies’

Photoshop crash report

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Photoshop is flakey, always has been, probably always will be. And it always seems to crash when you least want it to (when you’ve finally completed a difficult procedure and are just about to save for example).

Anyway… when Photoshop crashes, a dialogue box pops up and asks you to send a report to Adobe to let them know what happened. And some people like to vent. (more…)

iPad announced… geeks complain…

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

So Apple finally announced it’s latest gadget – the iPad. Possibly the most-eagerly awaited tablet since Moses was on the scene (© All today’s newspapers), the iPad is – in layman’s terms – an VERY BIG iPhone… but without the phone bit.
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Party like it’s 1993

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Ever thought that, well, you can do too much with your PC or Mac? It’s just *too* powerful.

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Do you long for a simpler time when Minesweeper was the cutting-edge of games and overlapping program windows were a revelation?

You need the Windows 3.11 emulator :-)

Why people spend hours doing these things is beyond us sometimes… but we’re glad they do.

And all done in javascript… not even a whiff of Flash. Good work fella.

Facial Expression Computer Control

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Made us smile… visit Geek and Poke for more geeky japery.

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Interesting… but I don’t see Clapton playing one

Monday, January 18th, 2010

The jury’s still out as to whether we want one… or will stick with the “boring old strings” of our usual guitars.


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Retro web sites

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Forgot about this until I stumbled upon it again today: what would the Apple web site have looked like in 1983.

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Find out who’s defriended you on Facebook!

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

We know we shouldn’t care, it’s just a silly web site. But, yes, when a “friend” defriends you on Facebook, you like to know who it is!

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Not so you can begin a vendetta against them but there’s nothing more-annoying than seeing your Friend count go down one and not know who.

(Ed – there are actually a lot of things more-annoying but we get your point).

Now admittedly, if you can’t work out who’s removed you, that probably says a lot about your relationship. But still…

So, here comes Friend Drop (link will open a link to Facebook in a new window). Which tells you who and when someone defriended you.

It’s an interesting social experiment if nothing else. :-)

Right, we’re off to organise a vendetta…

Up Up and Away…

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Our glorious leader (a title he wants us to adopt but are so far refusing to) Ross isn’t a big fan of heights – but, like all 30-something men there’s a 12 year old boy inside him that goes ga-ga over anything Star Wars.

“How cool is that!” he exclaimed when he saw this: a Darth Vader hot-air balloon at a festival in Leon, Mexico.

Darth Vader Balloon

With thanks to My Modern Met for the heads-up.

Salivation overload

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

New iMac launched… pockets being turned out and sofas investigated for any loose change.

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