tenthofjune

An elderly Scotsman lay dying in his bed.
While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favourite biscuits wafting up the stairs. He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed. Leaning on the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and with even greater […]

According to YourNav.com, TomTom have released version 2.2 of Home and this release finally includes a Mac Version, just two days before the discounted map offer expires.

Sky+ is one of those rare killer apps that has actually been well designed, however there are a couple of weaknesses in one of its most useful features - Series Link.
Firstly, the EPG (and hence series link) can only ’see’ 7 days in advance. As often happens on the BBC, a programme gets postponed for […]

Since the advent of spam, most ISPs have their SMTP servers set to only accept non-authenticated connections from computers on their own networks, and justifiably so. Some (mine included) offer the additional extremely useful option of making an authenticated connection (username and password) from outside their network to allow you to still use their SMTP […]

This morning it took me 25 minutes to get to the motorway (a 5-6 minute journey) due to queues on the A6. Was this queue shown on TomTom traffic? No. Has it ever shown on TomTom Traffic? No.
When I did get to the M61 motorway, it was predicting congestion between junctions 5 and 4, but […]

In the past, if you wanted the latest map for your TomTom, you went to TomTom’s website, paid for it and downloaded it. Now TomTom has changed it so that it is only possible to download the maps using its ‘TomTom Home’ software.
Not a great problem, except that the latest maps can only be downloaded […]

I recently got a cheap 3 spot light fitting from Aldi. (Likely to get trashed by my two young daughters, so wasn’t after anything expensive)
It came with tungsten halogen lamps I had not seen before - G9. However, at 40W each, it was too bright for the location, so I went looking for replacement lower […]

Following a Which? complaint to the EU in 2004, Apple have agreed to reduce the cost of tracks on the UK iTunes store from 79p to 74p (in line with pricing on its other European sites). (El Reg and BBC) While this is obviously welcome, one part of Apple’s press release gives rise to concern:
Apple […]