I’ve been using the Dell U2410 24″ monitor for a few weeks, and although I’m no monitor expert, I shall attempt to review it from an average users point of view.
Firstly, the design. It’s quite simple and basic; it looks professional if not slightly boring. The monitor is mostly black with the leg and the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wright’
Feb 2010
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Dell U2410 Review
Feb 2010
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Create Visual Stats from mIRC Logs
If you use mIRC as either your IRC client or for an IRC bot, then you’re likely collecting log files from each channel you’re in. With mIRC Stats you can turn those log files into visual stats and have them automatically uploaded to your website via FTP. You can see an example of the results [...]
Jan 2010
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Tour of a Geeks Desk – January 2010
Since my last tour of my desk, I’ve had numerous requests for an updated version. I feel now, however, that my desk has changed substantially since May 2009, so this is simply a new ‘Tour of a Geeks Desk”. Enjoy.
Jan 2010
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RDP vs VNC – Remotely Controlling a Computer
Remote Desktop Connection and Virtual Network Computing are both ways of connecting to, and remotely controlling a computer. Essentially, they do the same thing, but there are differences between them.
Remote Desktop
RDC Client is built into Windows and available for OS X
Remote Desktop (server) is built into most versions of Windows
RDP treats each connection as a [...]
Dec 2009
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How to Stream Media from your Mac or PC
I bet you have a lot of media on your computer. Media can be in a variety of forms, such as photos, music, video, etc. Often, however, it is only on our computers, because, often, is is difficult, or impossible, to get all, if any, of our media onto our portable devices. The solution is [...]
Dec 2009
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Apple Magic Mouse Review
I’ve been using the Magic Mouse for long enough now to be able to review it properly. The video above is fairly long, and covers everything in great detail, whereas this review will be shorter.
If you currently use a Mighty Mouse, and are thinking about switching to the Magic Mouse, you’ll probably get used to [...]
Dec 2009
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Create Online Lists
I’d like to take this opportunity to inform you about the latest addition to this website. I’ve built a list creation service, which you can find at http://lists.jakewright.net. There’s a demonstration of it in the video above, but essentially, you pick a name for your list, give it a password (so only you can edit [...]
Nov 2009
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How to Save Ink When Printing
Would you like to save money and be more economical at the same time? I’m sure you would, so that is why I’m going to tell you about Ecofont. I’m sure, in the past, you’ve considered how much ink, the thing you’re actually printing will consume, and maybe adjusted quality settings accordingly. The people behind [...]
Oct 2009
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IRC Topic to RSS Feed via mIRC
This tutorial will show you how to create a topic bot in mIRC, and have that bot turn the topic into a text file and/or an RSS feed, and upload the file(s) to your website using FTP! Sounds cool, right? Let’s begin.
Firstly, you will need mIRC, a free trial is available from http://mirc.com. Once that [...]
Sep 2009
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Dropzone Makes it Easy to Get Things Done
I came across a great Mac app a few days ago. It’s called Dropzone (http://www.aptonic.com/). It costs $10 after the 15 day trial, and basically sits in your dock, waiting for you to drag something over it. When you do, a small stack/grid menu appears and displays available ‘zones’ on which you can drop your [...]
