fordie’s blog

I ain’t afraid of no ghost!
Ever since I started blogging, I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to get html into my posts so that can write tutorials. It’s something I’ve struggled with and as an upshot - I have two or three articles that are waiting to be published that I [...]

I think I’ve finally cracked the various PC issues I’ve been having - last night I reinstalled XP on my laptop (again). I’d done a reinstall last week, but I’d neglected to format the HDD first; the upshot of which was my hard disk was almost completely full of folders XP wouldn’t let me [...]

A few weeks back I installed Sky Anytime on PC; since then I had noticed a considerable deterioration in the machines performance - to the point where it was almost unusable.
I didn’t immediately put two and two together, I just assumed that it was time to give the laptop a bit of a spring clean; [...]

I’ve been waiting for ages for CS3 to come out, and Today Adobe have finally released some details about it on their website. Although there’s not a lot of substance to it yet, there’s an awful lot of marketing speak on there and no trial versions yet.
I’ve been using Fireworks CS3 beta and it’s pretty [...]

Yesterday I discovered “Fring“. It’s an application that you install on your symbian powered mobile phone that allows you to make Skype and Google talk calls over the GPRS, 3G & (if your phone supports it) Wi-Fi Networks.
Most nokia handsets run on the Symbian operating system, according to the Fring website you can download the [...]