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Who are North Korea’s 13 Twitter friends?
In the past few months North Korea has embraced social media, first creating a YouTube channel, and in August a Twitter account with the name @uriminzok, which roughly means ‘our people’ in Korean. North Korea has since been busy and has already racked up 457 tweets for its 10,334 followers. Pyongyang is however being very selective [...]
2011 Excel week numbers calendar
If you work in a company then you may find yourself dealing in week numbers rather than dates. E.g. the deadline for this project is week 38! Here is a free downloadable Excel calendar for 2011 that has the days of the week across the top, and then the week numbers for the whole of 2011 down the side. Each day has five boxes for you to [...]
i-gotU GT-600 GPS data logger review
The last time I reviewed a stand alone GPS data logger it was the GlobalSat DG-100, a functional but not very stylish box for recording GPS tracks. The new i-gotU GT-600 GPS Travel & Sports Logger from Mobile Action (disclosure: they sent it to me for free) has the same SiRF Star III chipset as the DG-100, but it comes in a smaller and more [...]
Trusteer Rapport for Mac
Trusteer Rapport is a piece of security software to help protect your Mac’s internet browser against key logging and phishing attacks. It is being pushed by a number of large banks including NatWest, ING and First Direct. I’ve previously written about using Trusteer Rapport on a PC , and today I’m putting up some screen shots of what it [...]
Proof that Alexa rankings can be very inaccurate for small websites
Here is a comparison of the actual viewing figures for this site (as recorded in Google Analytics), against the values that Alexa reports. Alexa vs Google Analytics page views This is a fairly small blog, getting 600-800 page views per day. If you too have a website which is of a similar size you might be interested in just how wrong [...]
Amiga nostalgia – Silica mail order catalogue
If you used to have an Amiga then you’ll probably remember Silica who produced regular mail order catalogues that could take an afternoon to get through. I had an Amiga 600, upgraded to 2mb of RAM, and with an external 200mb hard drive! It was one of those hard drives that was moulded to fit the Amiga 1200, so it didn’t look quite right on the [...]
Zen Internet broadband cancellation
At the end of May I wanted to cancel my broadband from Zen Internet because I was going on a long holiday to Japan. I’d worked out that despite Zen’s activation fee to re-connect, it would still be cheaper to cancel now and re-connect later, rather than keeping the connection while I was away. Cancellation request Zen have always been a [...]
Free Japanese OCR translation
If you have a Japanese document on paper there are plenty of services that will translate it for a price, but it is also possible to get a machine translation done for free. It might not give you a great translation, but it might be good enough for you to at least work out what the document is. There are two stages to translating a document in [...]
Windows 7 on a 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch
I’m going to review what it is like to use Windows 7 Home Premium on a 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. This is one of the 2.4GHz models with 4GB of RAM. Some parts of this review would be applicable for running Windows 7 on any Mac, but other parts may be specific to the 2010 MacBook Pro 13 inch. Installing and setting up Windows 7 I [...]
Installing Japanese WiFi router to share internet connection
Who this is for You are in Japan, you already have a wired broadband internet connection, and you want to share that internet connection between multiple computers, either using network cables, or wirelessly. If you don’t already have a wired internet connection I can’t help you! How to find a router in Japan The technical details [...]
