Monthly Archives: November 2008

Adobe Flash Player 10 64-bit – Get in the know

Note: This article will be completely irrelevant to regular Blogberry readers, it is only relevant to 64-bit Windows users wanting to get Flash Player working Over the past few weeks, I have noticed that masses of users have been trawling the … Continue reading

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Clever little clock – batteries not included (or needed!)

Every so often, I see a new gadget on the horizon and think “that really is a good idea”, it is however rare. This week, of all things, a wall clock caught my eye.

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Visa gives the humble credit card a touch of the 21st Century

Shopping online for various items, whether it be the weekly shop, buying books, holidays or just ordering up Sky TV in time for Christmas is becoming a fairly regular day-to-day practice. At the heart of this is the payments using … Continue reading

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Firefox – 12 updates – 6 are critical

Mozilla (makers of Firefox) have released a series of updates for both Firefox v2 and v3. The updates are all security related, and fix a dozen security flows. Half of the updates are flagged a critical.

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How to create your own Smart Playlists in iTunes

Last week we looked at simple playlists in iTunes, this week, we are looking at Smart Playlists. The playlists that automatically generate and update themselves. It may sound complex, but they are really easy to create, and really practical.

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How to Troubleshoot a Sky+ box & Upgrade the Firmware

Whilst out and about seeing customers last week, one of them asked me why they couldn’t get their Sky+ box to record programs. My immediate thought was that the software was either not the latest version, or it was faulty, and … Continue reading

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Creating a playlist in iTunes

Playlists are great ways of having selected tracks to play at any given time. For example, you could have a playlist for the car with all your favourite sing along tunes, and other set of tracks for when you go … Continue reading

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The Cloud – Live Mesh Spreads its Wings

Live Mesh, the Cloud based service from Microsoft has unleashed itself for all just about all. The Mesh software can synchronise files and folders to the Cloud and across your other PCs and devices.

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