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How to get BBC iPlayer Desktop working abroad

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:17:37 +0000

A while back I posted a guide showing how to get the BBC iPlayer to work abroad, but recently, I wanted to try to get the desktop application to work, so that I could watch things offline. However, I soon realised that the BBC's terms and conditions forbids the downloading of programs outside of the...

Lenovo Thinkvantage Password Manager - Patch for Firefox 3.5+ on Windows 7 (64bit)

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:25:07 +0000

Some error in the Password Manger add-on for Firefox means that everytime the browser opens, it gives the annoying message that the add-on cannot be registered with Chrome. The solution is to edit one of the files in the add-on, to support this higher version of Firefox. I have done this fix,...

iPhone 3G, OS 3.1.2 Jailbreak and Tethering with Ubuntu 9.10 (UNR) and Windows 7 on Three Ireland

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:16:50 +0000

I recently had the opportunity to test out an iPhone 3G, I wanted to see if I could get it to perform the same functions as my current phone - Nokia N95: Work with Three Ireland SIM card MMS/SMS/Email Messages Etc. Internet/Broadband/3G connection/tethering The answer:YES, but I had to ...

Himself vs Herself

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:24:04 +0000

I have noticed whilst reading numerous academic papers, blogs and articles etc., that the Authors tend towards using a the female term to refer to people of an unknown gender, whereas I always understood the default to be the male pronoun. for example: We would like to take this opportunity t...

The tools I use

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:30:58 +0000

I've been meaning to write this post for a while, It's more for my own memory than anything else, and I'm sure my millions of readers will be very un-interested to read it, but after a recent install of a new operating system on my Uni machine (Windows Vista to Windows 7), I thought I would list the...

Spam: But altered

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:08:16 +0000

Hello my dear, Good day and compliments of the seasons, I am Mrs. Mendula Fett I am from Alderan. I lost my husband during the rebel attacked in 2006 before his death, he had an account with a bank here in Tatooine, where he made a deposit of 10.5 Millions Credits. This money was for the purchase...

IEEE Latex conference class, add copyright notice

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:29:31 +0000

I recently had to submit a paper in IEEE conference format, that required an IEEE copyright notice and publisher ID, the problem I had was that by default, the functionality is removed from any 'conference' class papers, so in order to make this work using the conference class (\documentclass[10pt, ...

Sensorbase.org, Campaignr and Symbian Signing

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:19:06 +0000

My research looks like it will involve using mobile phones to collect sensor data, and I have recently been involved in a project that uses a piece of software for the Nokia N95, called Campaignr. This is a nice little application that will log data from all of the various sensors on the N95, and up...

Looking for a high quality Skype Phone with video - Asus EEE Videophone Aiguru SV1

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:31:01 +0000

I have become a regular user of Skype, and have started to get frustrated with having to use my PC for commincation, because I don't want it on all of the time, so I recently came across this product, which looks fantastic! The Asus EEE Videophone Aiguru SV1 supports video calling, has built-in ...

Location Based Gaming

Thu, 28 May 2009 10:49:50 +0000

I've been thinking recently about location based gaming - of course, this is not my PhD topic, but I have some ideas about how to integrate my PhD into it. I came across this cool mobile phone/location based game called Tourality which, seems to have been well thought out, and has an interesting set...

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