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Making your workspace simplier with Synergy!

James — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:48:06 +0000

When your on a computer, whether it be writing a document, doing some website development work or general browsing you need to be comfortable with your workspace set-up so you achieve maximum productivity. If your someone who has multiple computers i.e. multiple PC’s or a laptop then have you ever thought of using just one [...]

The new domain for James’ Blog

James — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:01:04 +0000

If your the observant type then you might of noticed that the URL in address bar is no longer james-blogs.com but in fact jamesblogs.com, just noticed? You jumped out of your seat right? Well it’s not that dramatic, but yes the primary domain of James’ Blog has now changed. This was one of the main [...]

Welcome to the new James’ Blog

James — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:01:01 +0000

Welcome back everyone to the new James’ Blog! Under the place holder page that you’ve all been seeing for a month or so, this is what’s been hiding underneath, a new theme and many changes to the back end! Did you enjoy the countdown timer I added on the place holder page? Well I was [...]

How long till the Xbox 360 gets BBC’s iPlayer?

James — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:08:31 +0000

Whats the main the difference between the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and PS3? Ignoring the obvious specification differences, the flame war comments and the general fan boy douchness, one of these consoles doesn’t have BBC’s iPlayer service and falling short is Microsoft’s Xbox 360, iPlayer is probably one of the main demands that a typical [...]

Ten reasons why I won’t sign up to facebook

James — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:38:57 +0000

Everyone is on that god awful website called Facebook these days, social networking has never been my thing, but I’ve never understood the whole point of it, but apparently most of the human population seem to be on it these days, clicking away on peoples profiles you don’t even know, pretending your actually enjoying your [...]

How the new Formula 1 season isn’t "doomed"

James — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:57:26 +0000

I’ve never really talked about Formula 1 much here, but I’ve been a F1 lover since I was like five. To me F1 is one of those areas which I can talk about for hours and can rattle off loads of information about anything to do with the sport, but recently the media seemed to [...]

Fixing the ttf-mscorefonts package in Ubuntu

James — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:38:11 +0000

Ubuntu 9.10 since it’s release has caused quite a storm in the linux community both good and bad. While Ubuntu 9.10 is the latest and greatest release of the Linux distro there have been a few slight issues with Ubuntu 9.10. One of the problems I’ve had with the Ubuntu 9.10 is with a package [...]

Have you upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10?

James — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:40:49 +0000

If your someone who doesn’t always use Windows then chances are your a Linux user too. Linux with it’s many distrubutions and open source lovelyness has recently seen the popular distribution Ubuntu hit the 9.10 mark with it’s latest release called Karmic Koala! I’ve only been using Ubuntu since 9.04 and only for a few [...]

Exclusive Look at Windows 7 Professional

James — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:45:08 +0000

Well I haven’t blogged in a while and thats because I’ve been busy with personal things, but because this blogs about everything but myself here’s my latest happening in a blog post. Im sure you’ve all heard about Windows 7, Microsoft’s brand new operating system which has been through it’s BETA and Release Candidate stages [...]

WordPress Worm attacking blogs

James — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:09:46 +0000

WordPress blogs are under attack after a old friend is back causing havoc. A worm is attacking WordPress blogs which are yet to be patched with the WordPress 2.8.4 release. This release, although contains minor changes is now probably one of the most important updates you will need to update to. This update fixes the [...]