fordie’s Blog

When purchasing software online you expect the process to go something like this: Choose your software Add to cart Pay Download Software nice and simple & stress free. Unfortunately some companies don’t get it – Tomtom I’m looking at you. Yesterday I decided to purchase the Tomtom maps of Western Europe in preparation for our [...]

On Christmas Eve Laura apologised to me because the gift she had ordered for me online over two weeks previously had failed to arrive from Dixons. When she handed me a printout on Christmas morning with a picture and the tec specs of the TomTom Go 520T that was on it’s way for me I [...]

In a recent post I talked about how I got my hands on a Vodafone V1605 for free; having had the phone for a month now I thought it made sense to talk about it in a bit more depth. Overview: The Vodafone V1605 is the Vodafone branded version of the HTC hermes; it’s a [...]

My Vodafone contract is now at a point where I can upgrade my handset, so after a lot research I decided I was going to go for the V1605 (HTC Hermes). I really liked the look of the v1605, My previous handset (before my current N-70) was an i-mate jam (also an HTC device) I [...]

At the weekend I installed the Orange Live box for my in-laws. They were already on Orange broadband, and their old netgear wireless router had died so the FIL decided to take a deal from Orange & upgrade to the Orange live box. As soon as I popped the installation CD into the PC I [...]

It was Isla’s and my Birthday yesterday. My sister Anna bought Isla a Fisher Price “Kid Tough” Digital Camera which she gave her on Saturday when we all met up in London after going on the London Eye. Isla was thrilled to bits with her camera, and actually she’s taken some pretty good photos (considering [...]

There are a number of approaches you can take to sharing your printer. You could physically plug it in to the USB port on your PC or laptop when you want to print, but this isn’t very practical. You could use the printer sharing feature in Windows XP, but this means you need to have [...]

Due to our imminent new arrival our old desktop PC has become homeless. It’s been turfed out of it’s previous home by Isla who has moved from the nursery to what was the spare room. The poor old desktop is currently squatting on the coffee table in the lounge, with it’s 19′ CRT monitor and [...]