Tech tip for traveling to Portugal and Europe
by OKButton on May.08, 2008, under Blogroll, Computing
This is a quick tip for travelers.I recently went to Portugal intact I am still here. Anyway if you want to skip the now massive queues at passport control get an e passport asap as Portugal has loads of e control points like 5ish and only 2 regular only one of which is for eu citizens. By the way e passports have a chip behind the photo and an icon on the front. Anyway enjoy the nice weather I will…
Reboot Tastic
by OKButton on Mar.01, 2008, under Blogroll, Computing, Going out
I went to Belfast this week. Nothing to interesting with that but.. When I got on the plain that was to take me there the pilot instructed every one that the plane would have to be rebooted as there was a computer on board that had gone wrong. It took 3 full reboots of the plane to sort it involving all lights to be turned off (full cold starts) before the TomTom for the air would come back on again.
Can’t touch this
by OKButton on Feb.09, 2008, under Blogroll, Computing
This is the first article I have writen on the iPod touch. I have jailed the device and I can’t beleve how cool it is now. The installed is amazing I only which apple had done it, who knows how good it would have been then. I didn’t use the jailbreakme site though I did try. It just didn’t want to play ball for me. Instead I used the more long winded original way. I will leave this post a little short as I am not that quick on this key board just yet though it is very good.
RIP Pandora hello Last.FM
by OKButton on Jan.24, 2008, under Computing, Linux, Web, Windows
Last FM is the well not new but now legal play what you want internet radio station. And it has its own client so you can play outside of the browser. This is a feature I have always wanted from Pandora. On top of that the client comes in several flavors Windows Apple and Linux and if you use a Debian derivative distro you can install and maintain via apt. Very impressive.
Pandora’s box closes to the UK
by OKButton on Jan.09, 2008, under Blogroll, Computing, Web
Pandora the custom internet radio company, will be blocking the UK from accessing the station as of the 15th of Jan 08. This is due to licensing issues with the music companies not going well. The UK was the only country out side the US that was able to get the system and there was some thought that the UK would let the add based company stream there radio. But this is not to be the case. There is also concern that the station might be forced off the wires in the US as well in the future. If you haven’t used Pandora before I urge you to have a look before you are unable to again.
Yet another nail in the media revolution coffin. Lets hope Jobs will cheer every one up next week.
