Category Archives: Gadgets

tech related posts – mostly of apple stuff that I’ve bought (eg. how to get the most out of the iPad etc)

Xbox360 suicide….

Posted on October 2, 2006 by John Mason

“Due to severe lack of gaming… I am thinking of shutting myself off… permanently… let’s see how badfracture digs on that!”

“Where is badfracture at? I want to disown him. I am putting myself up on eBay ASAP”

Two annoying …

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QEDWiki, IBM, and “Situational Applications”

Posted on September 14, 2006 by John Mason

Read about Dan Gisolfi – one of IBM’s forward thinkers, IBM, PHP, the Zend Framework and an exciting emerging technology IBM is working on called QEDWiki.

UPDATE : QEDWiki has been replaced by IBM Lotus Mashups, which provides a lightweight …

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MacBook Pro BSOD

Posted on August 31, 2006 by John Mason

Blue screen of death! oh yes, what’s the first thing to do seeing as I’ve got a shiny new macbook pro? That’s it; install the Microsoft Vista PRC1! installing was pretty simple – install bootcamp, change the partition size to …

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Underwater photography – comming soon

Posted on August 15, 2006 by John Mason

With my hols rapidly approaching (well, two months away) I’ve finally decided to by the waterproof camera case to go with my camera. Should make taking photo’s while snorkeling or diving as the camera has a built in “underwater” mode …

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Proof of boarding!

Posted on March 17, 2006 by John Mason

Slainte… I’ve ordered mine in today (guiness that is.!!) and my snowboard bag turns up. Hidden deep in the bag is the proof of some boarding. Luckily, I’d decided to test out my little GPS tracker on the first run …

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