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  Go Ape! So, Go Ape. What is it? Well, simply put, it’s a bunch of platforms, wires, and other stuff high up in a bunch of trees. If that doesn’t sound exciting, well, in real life, it’s actually quite awesome. You basically make a booking on their website, turn up the next day (or whenever), go through [...]

  5 months on
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  Let’s get DiRTY! I was first introduced to the Colin McRae series back with the ‘04 version of the game, and I was instantly hooked. Despite having to play it at very low settings on my old PC, it was great fun, and I used to like seeing how hard I could push a car before smashing it [...]

  5 months on
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  Food is awesome! Food is awesome. I especially like stuff like chocolate cake. Mmmmmmmmmm. Anyway, so, I was bored a few weeks ago, so I went on the hunt for a recipe for something I always used to buy from a place in Australia – Pizza Bianca. There’s a bakery in Perth called New Norcia Bakeries, and they [...]

  6 months on
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  Win a copy of….Windows 7! So, on top of the OS X giveaway I did the other day (and congrats to Chris Allen for winning that ), the forum I run (in case you don’t know, thewinforums.com) is giving away three copies of Windows Vista Home Premium (Upgrade)! Luckily, I’m not paying for the copies, so they’ll hopefully [...]

  6 months on
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  Windows XP? DVB-T? I have a solution! Windows XP, and DVB-T. Two things that have been hanging around for a bit too long. So, first up, Windows XP. Microsoft have been trying to get consumers and businesses to switch to Windows Vista and Windows 7, but they’ve been unable to get people to fully switch over. So, here’s an idea. Roll out a [...]

  6 months on
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  IP.Board 3 IP.Board is an amazing piece of software. I’ve used it ever since version 2.1 back in 2005, and it powers the forum I run – thewinforums.com. IPS just last month released version 3 of this powerful package, which brings a whole host of new features. Some useful, some not so much. I’m not going to [...]

  6 months on
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  Your Location on Twitter http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/location-location-location.html Brilliant idea, in my opinion. This should turn Twitter into an even better service. The only problem is, I can see services such as Brightkite being made extinct after this. Still, they might be able to work out a way to make it even better. Who knows. Anyway, I think this is a very useful [...]

  6 months on
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  I’m 18! Woohoo! I turned 18 yesterday! So now I can legally drink, gamble, and watch 18 rated films. Yay! Didn’t really have a very exciting day though. Mainly sat around and did nothing. I got a few presents – Richard Hammond’s book entitled “As You Do”, some bike gloves (warm ones too, for winter [...]

  6 months on
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  Win a copy of Snow Leopard! Squarespace did it, Moonfruit did it, and now I’m doing it. For fun. And also as a bit of an experiment. I wouldn’t consider myself huge on Twitter (despite me owning this), so I’d like to see what kind of impact a giveaway from a person with just 325 followers would have on Twitter in [...]

  7 months on
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  Nokia N97 vs the iPhone As I said in my previous post, I managed to score a free N97 for a few weeks. Since I kinda suck at reviews, and I hate writing them I’ll try and keep this shortish. So, in terms of the phone overall, it feels solid. However, it’s thick. It’s almost twice as thick as [...]

  7 months on
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  Nokia N97 As soom people may have noticed on my Twitter / Facebook stream, I have an N97. Why? Well, 9 days ago, a random person sent me an email asking if I wanted to try out the N97. At first, I though “haha, scam”, but then as I read it, I noticed it was actually real. [...]

  7 months on
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