I was in need of a tool for recording audio, both from the internal microphone on my MacBook (i.e. recording meetings), and also from the line in port (I recently had to import some audio from Mini Disc). Tape Deck does the job in a very visually appealing and intuitive way - it looks just […]
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No, not really. In their efforts to be seen as “innovators”, I think Microsoft are just trying too hard. That’s not to say that Microsoft cannot innovate - you only need to look at XBox Live for a great example of that. This is what irks me so much about Windows. Microsoft has the resources […]
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I had this problem the other day: two websites using identical code to collect RSS news feeds from identical sources. Website A loads its pages in about a second, whereas Website B takes up to 10 seconds. Go figure.
After I had thought about the problem for a while, and checked the codebase was identical, I […]
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I’m constantly searching for the next new gadget to make my life better somehow. Invariably these gadgets fail to enrich my life beyond the initial novelty value, but somehow I just keep getting suckered in. I’m pretty certain that isn’t the case with the Asus eeePC…
Imagine a laptop small enough to fit in a coat […]
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I happen to love playing Football Manager 2007, and the CD usually lives in my MacBook Pro, unless I take it out at work to load something else and forget to put it back of course. So, a whole weekend without Football Manager - that sucks… not any more!
I have purchased the game so why […]
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