fordie’s blog

Wireless Printer, Copier & Scanner - All In One Printer.
Since my old printer died a few months ago I’ve been looking for a suitable replacement. I ummed and ahhed for quite some time trying to work out what I wanted from a new device - eventually I decided that I wanted

a colour printer
integrated scanner
ideally wireless [...]

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 hit [...]

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 [...]

Having spent many hours adding tags to Photoshop Album I was keen not to loose that information when I moved my photos to my new network hard drive, so I set about finding a way to keep it, and better yet share the tags across the network.

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 incredibly [...]