Archive for 2011

OldSchool: Classic Sierra Games Now in a Browser Near You! (2011-1-17)

Anyone that knows me very well will know that I am a HUGE Sierra games fan. I have boxes of the games made by them. Some are on floppy  and stiffy disks and then also the more modern ones that are on CD or DVD.  Sadly I have not had chance to play a game […]

All Your Base Are Belong To Us (2011-1-16)

A few Facebook posts back, a good friend of mine, Murray Purdon, posted a message “All Your Base Are Belong To Us”. This took me back to an Internet craze that went around in the early 2000’s… The phrase “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” comes from the opening scene from the Japanese game, […]

Android: OnTrack – Helping Diabetics Keep Track (2011-1-15)

I am a Diabetic. And as all Diabetics will know, you have to keep track of your blood sugar levels to ensure that you will be around for some time still. You can either rely on the memory function of your Glucose Meter, or keep track by writing the information in a log book, or […]

Keep Confidential Files – Confidential… (2011-1-14)

We all have some of other type of information on our PC’s that we would rather keep private.   It might be those electronic payslips that you saving. It may be those excel spreadsheets with your budget information. It may even be those *cough* *cough* pictures.  Long story short we all have information that we […]

PS3: HowTo: Format FAT32 on a Drive Larger than 32Gb (2011-1-12)

Large hard drives, larger than 32Gb, are common today. In fact it is pretty difficult these days, if not near impossible, to get a drive smaller than 200Gb new. To be able to use a drive (and we are talking about a Windows system here) one has to create a partition on it (ie. you […]

DJ Hero Cable Crumble (2011-1-11)

Just after Christmas we went to the local Makro to pickup some stuff. As usual I do a pass in the music and game section to see what bargains can be found.  Low and behold there is a DJ Hero kit for Playstation 3 for only R399.00. So I grab one (they also had XBox […]