Download all your friends tagged facebook photos

March 9, 2010
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So, there are lots of facebook applications out there that claim to download all your photos. However most end up with credit limits or only downloading a maximum number of photos.
There is a relatively new release is a small piece of software. You can find it over at http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/. It not only allows you do [...]

Download all your tagged facebook photos

January 11, 2010
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This has been on the minds of my collegues and I for a while now – To develop a peice of software to search through and automatically download all of your tagged photos from facebook onto your PC hard-drive.
Export Photo’s Too does this brilliantly. Install the application to your facebook profile and hit ‘Download Tagged [...]

Amazon DRM free music downloads

January 8, 2010
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So, as you may or may not know, iTunes let you download songs for a pretty good price. However I can recall spending hours searching through tracks borrowed from a uni friend to find the tracks with ‘Digital Rights Management’ (DRM) stamps! These ‘tags’ mean that the track can only be played on certain devices [...]

Affordable Blu-Ray Home Cinema Systeme

December 30, 2009
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You may have read that I recently installed a complete new system in my family house lounge? Well here is the kit I used:
Samsung 46″ 5 Series LCD (Comet – £599)
SkyHD+ box (Sky – £30)
PS3 Slimline 120GB (Asda – £180)
HDMI 10.2Gbps Monster Cable x2 (Amazon – £100)
Logitech Z5500 5.1 THX (Amazon – £298)
This setup falls [...]

Movement to High Definition!

December 30, 2009
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I’ve often slated SkyHD about how it’s not ‘true’ high definition. However, with the approach of the new year this seems like a good time to make amends. More to the point, Sky have offered a free SkyHD+ box, with 50% off the installation fee (I should think so too – I routed the additional [...]

Automatic Photo Uploads!

December 11, 2009
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I was watching ‘The Gadget Show’ last night, and a particular gadget took my eye. It’s the Eye-Fi. A wireless SD card which automatically uploads any photos on it to either a PC or the internet (such as TweetPic or Flickr).
It’s a great idea – with one minor issue: Naughty photos (such as drunk office [...]

Car Technology

November 26, 2009
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There has been technology in cars for years; ABS, Electric Mirrors, Traction Control etc, but I want to talk about the more obvious, yet somewhat less featured tech in modern cars.
I have recently brought a new car – the Ford Fiesta Titanium. I added on the ‘Technology Pack’, which included some nifty features.
Keyless entry is [...]

Virgin Media 50Mbps – Install Complete!

November 16, 2009
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The installation is complete! The router is up and running (the second one, which Virgin delivered yesterday!) with remarkable speeds!
The pre-installation results were showing between 14Mb/s to 20Mb/s – Limited by the router. The new (D-Link ‘N’ rated wireless) router has now been installed and is running with amazing results. The first attempt at installing [...]

Top 5 Gadgets over the last 10 years!

November 9, 2009
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Over the last 10 years the gadget industry has taken off – Here are my take on the top 5 ideas since the year 2000, which once seemed so far away, and now seems so long ago!
5) The Flash Drive – The small portable devices carry all the music, video and data you can manage, [...]

Virgin Media speed me up: 50Mbps!

November 1, 2009
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This past Friday Virgin Media came to increase my Internet speed from 20Mbps (£37.00 per month) to 50Mbps (£38.00 per month). For this slight price increase Virgin have thrown in a brand new shiny modem and also a lovely new D-Link router with built in ‘N Technology’, capable of supporting up to 270Mbps!
The bloke dropped [...]