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  • Mitsubishi X Concept

    If this car becomes the Mitsubishi Evo X, I could see myself in it. Photo’s may not show material quality, build quality or generall “feel” of a vehicle, but the previous 8 and 9 have been sweet machines. This X Concept is sweet as!

    M

  • Geek.com Geek News – Upgrade your FB-DIMM to an 8 GB module

    Fear not, it appears that 8 GIGA-BYTE DIMM’s are on their way. Be interesting to see which motherboards (or CPU’s in the case of those chips with on die memory controllers) will support these beasties, but I’m sure that I could see a use or three for some extra ram.

    M

  • SpeedGuide.net :: News :: Windows XP SP2

    If you ever run into the limitations that microsoft Windows XP imposes on the number of TCP/IP connections that are not in the established state you might find this guide useful, as it will enable you to remove this horrible limitation that microsoft have placed inside Windows XP SP2.

  • Choosing a laptop can be a pain in the backside. I have been doing research on various models for several weeks now and have concluded that the laptop that closest suits my needs is a Toshiba Tecra S3 the S2 is very similar to the S3, but has a 15.4″ widescreen LCD. I think the S3 wins in the which laptop is best for me, because my car’s model is also an S3, and I like the tiein.

    The most difficult thing to fulfil when choosing a laptop (for me) was finding one that had a decent graphics card (6600 or better) in a notebook that had a 15″ screen. I found many that had a Radeon X700 graphics card, but in testing this card proved to be slower than the 6600 by a significant margin as per I was very tempted by the Acer Ferrari 4000 which looks like a sleep laptop, and has the AMD Turion (Mobile Athlon 64 CPU) in it, but I wanted that little bit more from my graphics hardware. There were many that are available with the 17″ laptops – even 6800 series and 7800 series graphics were available, but the 17″ formfactor is just that little bit too big.

    I also considered the Apple Powerbook 15″ which would almost be perfect, but the aging 9700 graphics chip in it, does not have enough grunt to power World of Warcraft the way I like it, which means this lovely beast is left on the sidelines :(, (the other issues I personally have with it is that its CPU is less than 2GHz actual, which is my personal sweet spot atm, and they are likely to be replaced with an intel based powerbook in the next 6-12 months that will make PowerBook owners cry.).

    The Toshiba Qosmio F20 also appears to be a nice notebook, but I like to support people in the channel that I know, and Toshiba have decided in whatever passes for thier wisdom that they will not be offering this notebook to the public in any form other than through major retailers (Hardley Normal, David Jones, Dickkies etal) this makes me grumpy so I will not recommend this notebook to anyone :P).

    Upgrades that will be performed instantly on the S3:
    100GB 7200rpmHDD
    2GB RAM

    😀

    M

  • If you know nothing about air chartering, i suggest that you start here, I knew nothing about chartering aircraft until I read this page, and am very tempted to give the airlines the big flick for certain flights.
    M

  • Download details: Theme Generator v1.0 for Smartphone 2002

    Always a pig to find, the windows smartphone theme generator or theme editor is a useful tool to allow you to create and edit themes for smartphones. This Microsoft tool designed for Windows Smartphone 2002, works fine with Windows Smartphone 2003 SE.

    I also tend to play around with the Pocket PC theme generator or theme editor as I prefer as they seem to be semi compatible with the Smartphone systems as well.

    M

  • iMate have released an updated version of the firmware for users of the iMate SP3i, enhancements include

  • Windows Media Player 10
  • Updated T9 functionality
  • New java
  • Updated build of WM2003SE
  • Bluetooth Enhancements
  • Call quality and other radio enhancements
  • Ringtone functionality updates (MP3 support)

    • So go get Operating System, 2.3.33.21, from imate . Lets hope it fixes the hang on removal of the sync cable.

    Good news it seems to fix the hang I was experiencing 90% of the time when I removed the sync + charge cable from the phone. (Only seemed to present an issue when connected to a PC – a powered hub or the wall pack did not have the same odd behavior.)

    M

  • Well Sean and Louise’s wedding was held yesterday, it was a lovely garden wedding and the weather was brilliant. Not too hot, not too cold and a very gentle breeze. I think a great time was had by all!

    As a note – an excellent photographer can make recording a wedding so hassle and stress free. I will have to post up who S&L used as he was sublime!

    M

  • Journo fired over rigged Mercedes brake tech test | The Register

    Looks like the new S classes auto braking feature is not as poorly implemented as first reported – Merc. engineers were coerced into faking a test that they knew was not possible (radar does not work in steel warehouses – i wonder why they would not design it to work in an environment like that?!?!) apparantly the suspension is very good, the brake now indicator (a piece of wood on the ground) was not felt by one of the drivers.

    M

  • eBay.au: Apple iPod 40GB – Incl. Dock, Protective Case (item 5833740805 end time 30-Nov-05 11:18:33 AEDST)

    I’m selling my iPod on eBay to fund various little side projects. This fine 40GB 3rd Generation model is brand new from warrantee repair. I expect that it will give the new owner much muscial happiness. You could be this happy new owner – head on over to the eBay aution and buy it. Mention this post when paying and I’ll give free postal insurance.

    M