January 2008
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By Tom on January 28, 2008
Northern Lights Children’s Fiction, 8/10 – Dec/Jan 07/08 I love reading children’s books, you know you’re in for an adventure. I watched the movie at the cinema the same day that I finished the book – I can understand why they sweetened the ending because it’s horrible in the book. I find doing the comparisons [...]
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By Tom on January 27, 2008
We have a charging area in our house where the chargers for our phones, camera, Gameboy and Bluetooth stuff live. It’s always a mess of cables and adaptors so I decided to tidy it up. A bit blue peter – But it’s better than before: Before: After: 1) I bought a box from B&Q that [...]
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By Tom on January 25, 2008
I crashed poor Lance in a nasty high speed collision. I was driving down a duel-carriageway, came round the corner and saw the road was blocked with cars from a previous accident, couldn’t stop in time, went into a skid, spun 180 and crashed going backwards into a stationary van. There were 8 cars involved [...]
Posted in Toys | Tagged Car |
By Tom on January 25, 2008
I feel sad that I’ve finally replaced my old PC which my dad gave me as a 21st birthday present. It was just too sluggish, even for browsing the web. I bought a widescreen Sony Vaio. It’s interesting to compare the specs because it shows how much technology has advanced in the last 7 years: [...]
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By Tom on January 25, 2008
One problem with the Ameo is that the webbrowser doesn’t open at your homepage, it opens with a useless T-Mobile page. To change this do the following: Install “PHM Registry Editor” (smartphone edition). This is a free program that allows you to edit the registry values. Get it from http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit. Once installed, Run it and [...]
Posted in Tech Journal | Tagged Ameo, HowTo |
By Tom on January 12, 2008
One of the reasons for getting my Ameo instead of a normal mobile phone was so I could write my journal whilst on the coach to work. But the keyboard that comes with it turned out to be inadequate. So I got a replacement: The HTC website for the Ameo has a link to a [...]
Posted in Tech Journal, Toys | Tagged Hardware |