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Debranding and Unlocking a Samsung M8800 Pixon

Sunday, 29 March 2009technologyphone unlocking

Locked, branded phones are a complete pain in the behind. Period. They shouldn’t sell them but they do. Luckily for you, me and everybody else, you can usually step around these issues. Here’s how I unlocked and debranded a fairly new Orange-locked Samsung Pixon

O2 giveth; O2 taketh away

Sunday, 23 September 2007googleo2technology

O2 are souring the pot by removing video calls from inclusive minutes. From next year they cost as much as a cheapish sex line. Hoorah for progress. Hoorah for competition. Perhaps Google can fix things.

The Abandon-Digg weekend is nigh

Tuesday, 26 June 2007applediggiphonetechnology

On June 29th 2007 we are going to witness an explosion of blog entries, digg posts and comments because the heralded iPhone is finally going on sale. Question is, will you brave the chaos or hide from it?

Running XP’s Solitaire in Vista

Monday, 11 June 2007gamesmicrosofttechnologyvistaxp

Considering the lower performance of Vista’s games for power-players, I’m taking a look at how to grab older versions from an existing XP installation and get them working on Vista.

Old games you really should play

Tuesday, 29 May 2007gamestechnology

Mark from Nutter’s Mark has just posted up his "Top 5 PC-Games You Probably Didn’t Play". I’ve got a few more that I think deserve your attention.

Shred Agent

Friday, 23 March 2007reviewtechnology

Make your website suck in 10 steps

Monday, 19 March 2007technology

The worst 10 reasons to get a PS3

Wednesday, 14 March 2007ps3sonytechnology

How not to service your customers

Monday, 12 March 2007technology

Sony fail again

Friday, 23 February 2007ps3sonytechnology

63,000,000 new OpenID accounts overnight

Friday, 16 February 2007technology

Viddler isn’t great

Thursday, 15 February 2007technologyvideo

Vista’s Additional Clocks

Tuesday, 13 February 2007technology

OpenID gets support

Saturday, 10 February 2007microsoftopenidtechnology

Apple fires on DRM

Friday, 9 February 2007technology

XXX domains are bad, mmmkay

Thursday, 8 February 2007domainstechnology

Linux is the only winner in the PC vs Mac war

Wednesday, 7 February 2007applelinuxmicrosofttechnology

Browser Trends ‘07

Wednesday, 24 January 20072007browsersfirefoxie7seophertechnology

RE: Why not .NET?

Saturday, 13 January 2007aspnetmicrosoftphptechnology

Stuart Brown of Modern Life is Rubbish put down my webdev language of choice. He says he uses it so I can’t take him to the cleaners completely with his post but there are a few pointers that I really want to address.

URLRewritingNet .* DefaultPage Hack

Thursday, 30 November 2006technology

Microsoft: Old Versions Are Rubbish

Friday, 24 November 2006microsoftofficetechnology

Has Digg gone nuts for Apple?

Wednesday, 13 September 2006applediggtechnology

O2 Treats - Not As Good As They Sound

Thursday, 25 May 2006o2offerstechnology

Houston, We Have A Problem

Monday, 20 March 2006spacetechnologyus

MSN Live Messenger Memory Leak

Tuesday, 14 February 2006betamemory leakmessengerramtechnology

Just how much RAM does a messenging client need?