I recently purchased the LG W2361V-PF LCD Widescreen monitor as a replacement for my previous 23” full HD monitor as I had to unfortunately return it due to a fault and couldn’t get a replacement. The Specs: Aspect Ratio – 16:9 Resolution – 1920 x 1080 Brightness– 300 cd/m2 Digital Fine Contrast Ratio– 50,000:1 Response…
You do know what BRB means right?
BRB: the modern, hip and lazy way of saying Be Right Back. A phrase (or acronym of a phrase) to be used when you are happily talking to someone and just need to nip out or have to quickly do something and won’t be able to talk to them for a few minutes, perhaps you…
How to: Install FireSheep
[ad name=”postsqrRight”]FireSheep has kicked up one hell of a storm since it was announced, and has made what was once reserved for the hard core geeks easily accessible to everyone, now anyone with 5 minutes can access the social networks and website accounts of the majority of people on the local network or wifi, particularly…
My new blog, with a really original name
I am always coming across odd, interesting a funny snippets and images on the internet. I often find these are things which I think deserve to be shared again for more to see, I posted a few on this blog but as I am trying to tune “Dan’s Tech Blog” into a more technological focused…
Reading, Tweetups and UK PDC10!
So I have been spending a lot of time in Reading recently, and I am loving every minute of it. In past couple of weeks I have seen more geeks that I dare comprehend, from going for dinner with the “Developer Developer Developer” crowd which lead to meeting a few interesting people I got talking…
Review: YouTubeSocial.com–Come to my Viewing Party?
YouTubeSocial.com is a nifty idea which solves the age old problem of sharing videos with friends online, and being able to follow it at the same time. This is a problem I can relate to a lot as I often find myself sharing a link and then struggling to watch it along with them and…
Window Live Writer: Easily Add Watermarks to Images
I recently took up writing the majority of my posts using Windows Live Writer when I installed the Windows Live Essentials 2011 software, and so far its been pretty decent and includes some great features, including the ability to easily add watermark text to images before uploading to the blog, and here’s how. Once…
University of Reading, the Second Look
So I am in Reading, just finsihed my second look at the University of Reading and well, this time I am much keener. I previously took a look at the first open day on the 2nd October, but didn’t really take a thorough look. This time round I have had some interesting chats and learnt…
Google Says: Are you sure Google.com is what you want?
This is simply a post “for the lols” … Google isn’t sure if Google.com is what you want… What is?
YouTube: My Speed History
I came across a very interesting page on YouTube the other day which provides some incredible statistics for you’re video speeds when using YouTube. This provides some fantastically geeky data, you can see your average video speed over the past month (while using YouTube), compare your average to others in your location, country and the…