Off to see Chris Rock tonight

My friend was lucky enough to pick up some tickets to see Chris Rock tonight in Edinburgh. He’s one of the best comedians in years in my opinion so I was really excited when I got a ticket. I’m curious as to how different the show will be compared to his performances in the USA. … Read more

Boot & run Linux easily using a USB Flash Drive

Following on from a suggestion from Eric Odom, I have installed Ubuntu as a second operating system on my new portable laptop. I encourage you all to try using Linux at one point. Years ago Linux users were not catered for by software designers but most scripts now cater for windows, mac and linux users … Read more

Use Vista to check how powerful your computer is

I still believe that XP is the best Windows operating system however my main laptop has Vista and my new HP 2133 laptop has vista installed too. Whilst my main laptop (Asus G1S) has a 2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, my new portable laptop has a miserable 1.6GHz Via 7 processor. It really should … Read more

I finally got my new laptop for travelling

2 days ago I finally got my hands on a HP 2133. I’ve been using it for a few days now and it’s exactly what I wanted. It’s really portable and the build quality is fantastic. Unfortunately, video playback is quite poor and it can be sluggish at times under Vista but it does everything … Read more

Photoshop Disasters

I came across a good site yesterday called Photoshop Disasters. The blog shows all the mistakes that leading magazines, newspapers and ad companies make when promoting a product. 50 years ago I imagine that it was only goverment agencies like the CIA who did photo editing but if you pick up any magazine nowadays it’s … Read more

Bill O’Reilly Goes Nuts

Lisa Bettany posted a great link today on Twitter. The video shows Bill O’Reilly going nuts at his staff years ago when the teleprompter wouldn’t work. Hilarious. I could give you many reasons why I detest this man but I think Snoop Dogg explained it for me in this video : :)

Did Friends Reunited miss the boat?

A few years ago the website Friends Reunited became incredibly popular in the UK. Over the course of a few months traffic jumped to crazy figures. I remember everyone signing up around that time and people were using it and updating their profiles a lot. For those who don’t know, Friends Reunited is a website … Read more

BloggingTips gets a redesign

My blogging advice blog BloggingTips.com got a new design yesterday :) Here’s a preview of the new design You can read the full announcement here : BloggingTips gets a redesign Evolution Wordpress Theme Released To coincide with the new design of BloggingTips I also released a dynamic wordpress theme for public release. You can read … Read more

The World Wide Web is 15 today

Although the internet has been around since the 70’s, it was on 30th April 1993 that Cern brought the world wide web to the public domain. I didn’t start using the internet regularly til my first year at uni in 1996. When we first started we were all fascinated by what you could do in … Read more