Vista fever! Not here!

Being a technology nut, I was interested to hear about the latest version of Windows, but after having heard more details, and after having become bamboozled by the myriad of different versions available, my enthusiasm has waned. In an ideal world I would use Linux or possibly Apple's OS, but these … [Read more...]

Wifi woes, again

Blasted Dell 6400 does not do wifi too well.  It keeps dropping the signal.  I upgraded the Intel wifi management software, but had the pc's fan go mad because the Intel software put something in my pc which kept the cpu working away far too hard, and it got so hot and bothered that another memory … [Read more...]

Another niggle

Is email getting slower?  It took 3 hours for a simple mail from my dad to get to me.  My old man is in the UK.  Will the day ever come when we go back to snail mail?  Probably not. … [Read more...]

Image * After

This site has a fantastic selection of free photos. Check it out here. Try searching to find what you might want. It's all copyright free, so you can do what you like with the images and you can use them for business or personal projects. Very, very useful. I use some of the images on my … [Read more...]

Dell 6400 – update

I've had my new Dell 6400 laptop for a couple of months now and I thought I would write a bit about my impressions so far.The GoodIt's fast - fires up and is ready to go pretty quickly.  It also opens programs and saves stuff nice and rapidly.It's built well - the keyboard is not mushy, which … [Read more...]