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• This blog is moving... me too!

  This blog is moving to http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/ Read More... Posted 12 August 2005 17:30 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Microsoft, Industry News, Cool Stuff/Geeky, Tips and tricks, SharePoint, ISA Server, Windows Platform, Macintosh, ISP, SQL Server, Networking, IIS, Office Products, Open Source/Low Cost Software, Security, Exchange and Outlook/Outlook Express, Mobility, Systems Management, Virtualisation, Messaging, *nix, Integration, Web Browsers, Apache, Web Development, Inane Waffle

• Making use of various iTunes for Windows plug-ins

  Since I became an iPod convert a few months back , I've ripped all of my CD albums to 192kbps MP3s using iTunes (over 5000 songs using 29Gb of disk space at the time of writing - still got about 500 CD singles, plus MiniDisc and vinyl to go...) but one Read More... Posted 05 August 2005 19:32 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky, Web Development

• Find out what the moon is made of using Google maps

  Today is the 36th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings ( thought by some to be a hoax , and by others to be a fantastic scientific achievement on the part of mankind ). To celebrate this, Google has added some NASA imaging to Google Maps and if Read More... Posted 20 July 2005 12:34 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Cool Stuff/Geeky

• Reminiscing about my first computers

  Alex 's post about his first home computer got me reminiscing about mine - a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ . Then I remembered having an emulator for one a few years ago but couldn't find it anywhere until I stumbled across World of Spectrum , which features Read More... Posted 01 July 2005 17:55 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Cool Stuff/Geeky

• What you might find if you were to buy an iTrip

  I've been reading on the web about quite a number of people who are having problems getting their iTrip FM transmitters for the iPod to work. In the UK, the use of such a product is illegal and, according to the Telegraph : "While it only operates in Read More... Posted 03 June 2005 16:44 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky, Tips and tricks

• How to take part in some time travel

  So you thought that old version of your website was gone forever? It may have been a little naive of me, but I figured that once I put up a new version of my website, then that was it, the old one was overwritten. Not so, it seems - today I stumbled across Read More... Posted 26 May 2005 23:09 by mark.wilson | 6 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky

• (Finally) joining the iPod generation

  There. Done it. Bought an iPod Mini on the way out of Heathrow this morning... (and my iTrip Mini should be in the post later today...) So I finally joined the iPod generation (and I'm well impressed). Okay, so the software setup had a few hiccups on Read More... Posted 10 May 2005 15:14 by mark.wilson | 3 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky

• An introduction to blogcasting

  I suffer from information overload. I don't read half my e-mails, and much of the syndicated weblog content that I subscribe to passes me by too. I'm a family man, with little time right now for much else apart from baby talk, nappies, mowing the lawn Read More... Posted 03 May 2005 17:35 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky

• Handy little 10/100 Ethernet switch

  Sometimes, when I'm on a client site, I think that it would be really useful to have an Ethernet switch with me but generally they are too big to carry around (even my excellent NetGear DS108 hub is a bit on the chunky side). Then last week, I spotted Read More... Posted 03 May 2005 16:09 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky, Networking

• New services from Google

  Last night, I read on Owen's blog that Google has launched its mapping service in the UK (it's been available in the US for some time), although in true Google style, Google Maps (UK) is still labelled as a beta service. Also launched with UK content Read More... Posted 20 April 2005 14:45 by mark.wilson | 4 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky

• PCs with airbags - no joke!

  IBM's ThinkPad range of notebook PCs have always had some useful (and unusual) features in the detail (collectively dubbed as ThinkVantage technologies). For example, the ThinkPad T40 which I was using a few days back had a reading light built into the Read More... Posted 18 February 2005 11:47 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky

• ieSpell - a spell checker for Internet Explorer

  One of my favourite features in .Text (the blogging engine used by the Conchango blogging community ) is ieSpell - a spell checker for Internet Explorer. ieSpell is a free (for non-commercial use) Internet Explorer browser extension which can be used Read More... Posted 08 February 2005 10:30 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky, Open Source/Low Cost Software

• Biometric USB flash drive - how cool is that?!

  I know that it is just a logical evolution of the humble USB flash drive and the decreasing cost of biometric security (even my local gym uses a fingerprint reader now for members to sign in and out) but last week Thomas Lee showed me the Trek ThumbDrive Read More... Posted 07 February 2005 14:32 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky

• Make your own iPod advert

  I confess. I don't own an iPod. I think they look great, but I just don't need one (and I have concerns about the use of Apple's proprietary AAC media format ). I like technology. I am also a photographer , which makes me passionate about some of the Read More... Posted 14 January 2005 17:51 by mark.wilson | 2 Comments Filed under: Cool Stuff/Geeky