Archive for March, 2011

Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts (even for dummies!) (2011-3-11)

Sometimes the staff at my place of employment try and diagnose their own personal PC problems. Sometimes they are lucky and fix it themselves. Other times (more often than not) they bring it into our office in a terrible condition (just short of loosing data or already lost data) for us to have a “quick” […]

PS3: Backup Manager – multiMAN (2011-3-10)

I must start this post off saying that I do not condone software piracy. Let me repeat that – I DO NOT CONDONE SOFTWARE PIRACY. Please Don’t Pirate Games – Support The Developers By Buying The Games. I do however feel that if you have legally purchased a game you should be allowed to make […]

ASCII Art Generator (2011-3-9)

Typing xx&eHHm&HHx&eH might not look like anything initially, but put more together on a line and add a few more lines then you can end up with something that looks like this… This form of art is also know as ASCII art.  It is the art of taking normal letters, symbols and numbers and laying […]

LighterSide: Download the Internet (2011-3-8)

Many years ago the joke went around that a blonde walked into a computer shop and bought a box of floppys and asked the technician to download the internet for her onto them  🙂 Weedpoop (don’t ask) posted this picture on Tumblr and that joke rushed to mind. Dirk, my one technician, also reminded me […]

Monday Movie Mix – Animation (2011-3-7)

Here is this Monday’s Movie Mix… The theme this week my son and newly born daughter will love – animation! Here are some animated films to look out for in 2011 1. Rango     (Release Date: 4 March 2011 US) Watch and tell me you aren’t excited about seeing this one… Trailer 1: Trailer 2: […]

Recycle your motherboard box (2011-3-6)

Asus recently had an interesting concept. They re-purposed the box that the motherboard comes in to also function as a computer case. ITWorld has the write up (found here): In the quest to cut down on shipping waste Taiwan’s Asus has a novel idea: What if the shipping container became the PC case? That’s the […]