August 2009
8 posts
The One With The Internet Being a Bitch !
Hey guys,
Ive being trying to upload CSI Relish for the past couple of hours and it should be done by now but the internet crashed.
I will have it up by tomorrow so you are gonna have to wait .
Talk to ya later,
Jack
The One With The Film Part 2.
Hey guys,
Just a quick update on my first short film on TheBetaVlog.
I have found several good songs for the soundtrack. All of them are copyright free.
These songs have sort of a celtic twist to them which adds to the theme of the movie.
I am still not going to publicly release the title or the Plot of the film. But I can tell you that it will be good.
Talk to ya later,
Jack
“When One Works For Something, One Gets It”
– Jack, Not Talking About Any Certain MacBooks 8-)
Mini-Competition
Hey guys, Im now announcing a cool mini-competition.
TO DO: Make TheBetaVlog a cool 10 second intro video, be as creative as you like.
PRIZE: To be advertised at the end of my video and to have a link to a place of your choice
e.g your twitter, youtube, facebook, email etc.
T&C: Alas there is always terms and conditions,
- you must be on YouTube.
- Has to be about 10 seconds long
...
FaceBook Acquires FriendFeed
Recently I heard that FaceBook bought FriendFeed. I then posted a nice tweet on Twitter saying “so facebook bought friendfeed. Is there some shopping centre where you can buy social networking sites. cool!”
Funny Me :)
Well you could tell for some time that FaceBook had shown interest in FriendFeed. FaceBook “borrowed” Friendfeed’s, “Like”, feature....
“I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT...”
– Thomas Edison (via imaster) (via macosxdude)
Sorry
Just to tell you guys im sorry that i havent blogged in a while. This is because i was in england and just i havent had time towrite blogs.
July 2009
26 posts
Podcast Archive
- Podcast 1: Themes
http://wvpodcast.tumblr.com/post/138699388/1st-podcast-themes
- Podcast 2: Social Networking Sites (Guest)
http://wvpodcast.tumblr.com/post/138989423/2nd-podcast
- Podcast 3: Email Clients (Guest)
http://wvpodcast.tumblr.com/post/138989942/podcast-3
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Ive always been a fan of Harry Potter. Ask me any question and ill answer correctly. I went to see the latest movie which had been released Wednesday the 15th of July. The film is rich in humor and is very funny in a lot of ways. Although the film doe have a couple of major faults. The filmakers skipped quite a bit of the book and they even added a scene that was never in the book and this added...
Stardock: Fences
Fences is “A program that helps you organize your desktop and can hide your icons when they’re not in use.”
If your desktop is like mine, really cluttered, and also like me you are resolving to putting most of your stuff on rocketdock or vista quick launch on the taskbar. Then this is your solution. Fences can be downloaded here at http://www.stardock.com/products/fences its...
No Podcast ? ..... Well heres why
Hey guys.
I sorry about releasing no new podcast this week.
This is due to the fact that I was very busy downloading the Ubuntu OS. This is because the old computer upstairs is …. OLD. Windows 98 to be exact. So I dodnt want to do the Podcast while it was downloading just incase something happened.
Blog To You Later,
Jack
Web Browsers
Well web-browsers is going to be my next podcast topic which will be uploaded on monday so watch out for it .
But for now I just want to talk about certain web-browser.
The web browser im using at the moment is Google Chrome. Its fast and easy to use, just like all of google’s releases.
I used to use Firefox but I didnt like how cluttered it was and all the add-ons you had to update.
...
ThrowBoy.Com
No Throwboy isnt a website where you can sign up to toss young males about. If you thought that, you have some sick mind.
Throwboy is actually a pillow company. They design pillows that look like mac application icons. For those avid windows users there is also an RSS pillow.
I will post a few photos after this post of different pillows directly from the throwboy site.
heres the link...
So have you got Chrome and a Tumblr
Well its simple if you want to turn tumblr into your own desktop application its easy with google chrome.
first go to the tumblr dashboard and then go to
Control Current Page > Create Application Shortcut
Then select Desktop
Drag it onto your quick launch or Dock .
if you want you can add an icon but you should already have one with tumblr
You can also do the same with Mozilla...
Internet Archive: Wayback Machine →
Check this out guys its pretty awesome all you have to do is type a url into the “wayback machine” click on take me back.
Then select a date and it goes there. Try Google first and go to the second one its really wierd :s
YouTube Video of The Day !!
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
– Isaac Asimov
InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers →
Internet News Is a Great site that everybody here should check out. It has all the latest news on whats going on in the internet world. It also has Software and Hardware news which would become of interest if you like software.
Blog to you later,
Jack
Copyright on YouTube.
Today I got news on YouTube that a long time Subscriber on TheCompugeeks has … how would you say it … has copied us.
This person has created a new account on YouTube called TheComugeek2. You may think … well hold on a minute jack that isn’t really the same name as it is missing a letter and has a number on the end! … Well yes that’s true but first the guy pronounces...
Welcome to Tumblr.
Now I hate having to change blogs after twenty one blog posts on Blogger. One of my friends suggested Tumblr as a better Blog. Tumblr has a more interactive Dashboard and more exciting features. The designs for blogs on Tumblr are amazing. Forget Blogger …. Hello Tumblr. Tumblr also has a better HTML feature. This means you can see all my twitter updates (link below).To my understanding you...
Is Google going a bit too far.
Okay so first they made their huge search engine “Google” in 1996. Then it was made public and they made it big. After that They made all these different apps etc. for example; Gmail, Adsense, Google Maps, Google Earth. 2005-2006 they got a share in Youtube Broadcast Yourself.
Just when you though it had finished. They Made Google Chrome late 2008. Even I confess that I prefer Google...
Podcast 3
This is the 3rd podcast and the 1st July one enjoy
Twitpic from Mobile phone
So you have a Twitter or Twitpic account. You have a mobile phone.
Well got cracking.
Sign onto Twitpic at Twitpic.com
Then go to settings.
This will then bring up your mobile settings.
Add the email as a contact on your phone.
Send a Picture to it. In the subject put what you want to have next to the picture (e.g night out with the lads)
Keep refreshing twitter and your Tweet will come up...
New Podcast Recording now
Im live now recording with a guest from england his name is Jack Benson
he is the creator of Jackbenson.co.uk.
Todays topic is : EMail Clients
enjoy it
Release date next monday
blog to you later,
Jack
2nd Podcast
Latest Podcast: Social Networking Sites
Even after Death, Jackson has an effect on us.
Today the whole world awoke to hear of the untimely death of Micheal Jackson.
Everyone rushed to their computers in a 12 hour period to see if the news was true.
Google reported after that they shut the popular search engine down for risk of hackers. Others say that The Giant Search Engine just couldnt take millions of people searching for the same thing and soon after ended up crashing. Google...
Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop
I recently downloaded seesmic desktop. Good idea sort of looks like the mac twitter app. But then i thought should i start using this rather than my old reliable tweetdeck. Well. They are both the same really. You can update twitter and facebook on them. They look the same but Seesmic has the mac look to it (grey window, curved edges). So at that point it was at a tie. So i looked for a downside...
Web Browsers
There are a lot of web browsers out there but the popular ones seem to be ones from the biggest companies like: Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.
Opera isn’t as popular due to the company only releasing that bit of software or only being famous for one thing. All the others have released other software, with the exception of Safari which is created by Apple who...
Domain Names
One issue I would like to express is the rising popularity of making a website and then having jazzy domain name after it like: (.com), (.org), (.net), (.co.uk). This is all well and good but unless you haven’t realized already, these domains cost money. The cheapest I’ve seen is a dot com domain for 7.99 a year and this comes with unlimited email addresses to that domain name. E.g...
Why upgrade?
I have a question directed at you guys so post your views on this as a comment below.
I was recently browsing through microsofts website when i thought to myself …
“Why update to windows 7 ? Why get Internet Explorer 8 ? “
WINDOWS 7
Should we wait a while for windows 7 to settle and be sure that MS has discovered all the bugs in the OS. The RCs and the Beta...
June 2009
8 posts
Windows Vista Compatibility Center
Want to know if your hardware is compatible with windows vista SP1/SP2.well you can now at this linkhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/ using the different menus you canselect different hardware like ; cameras, mice, printers, scanners, mp3 players/ipods, tv devices etc. This is very helpful as for me i can get really annoyed when i try to install hardware using windows vistas...
Podcast Number 2!
Hey guys im going to start recording my next podcast today i have a special guest with me. Todays topic is Social Networking sites. Blog to you later, Jack.
New Music Channel
Me and Darragh (you will hear him in the next podcast on Monday). Have set up a brand new music channel on youtube where we have recorded music and also made guitar tutorials check us out now . http://www.youtube.com/thegoldencapos Blog to you later, Jack
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WVPodcast Welcomes You!
Hey guys welcome to the official blog to where this podcast is published .Let me tell you what I do.
Im Jack and I host the WVPodcast.The topics I cover are Random but all to do with Windows Vista.
My first Podcast which will be uploaded soon is on Themes and it covers a quick How-To on a piece of Freeware called Vista Glazz. I also cover which is my preferable theme to install onto vista.
As...
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1st Podcast : Themes
Here it is my first podcast .. topic is Themes
More To Come!..
Twitter Updates
I am now udating on twitter http://www.twitter.com/wvpodcast blog to you later, Jack
My setup
Hey guys today imjust going to tell you a small bit about the setup i have got here.
I have a very nice compaq laptop.
Dell USB mouse.
Technics RP-F200 Headphones.
K & M mic stand.
Singstar Blue Microphone with adaptor.
Blog to you later, Jack
Next Topic!
Every Podcast is released on tuesdays and also the next podcast topic is released with it. So im gonna tell you all. Topic: Best Social Networking Websites These will consist of Twitter, Facebook, Bebo etc. I will also release a poll where you can vote which you think is the best. Blog you later, Jack