Triple-Booting Fun

My Sony Vaio was working perfectly well. I had the pre-installed version of Vista Home Premium (Sony remove a lot of crapware and install some genuinely useful stuff such as Microsoft Office 2007 (non-commercial edition) and Adobe Studio. Not so sure about VAIO media guide though…!) and Ubuntu Intrepid (toggling between KDE and Gnome depending [...]

iPhone Tips and Tricks

There’s been mixed opinions on the iPhone, but one thing is certain – you don’t have to be restricted by the whims of Steve Jobs. Aside from jailbreaking (something I will cover in another post/article) here are a few tips you can use on a day-to-day basis. Use Your iTunes-store Purchases As Ringtones Now, Windows [...]

The Latest Setup

I’ve finally found a Linux setup I’m wholly happy with (or at least mostly…) On my Sony VAIO it now dual-boots Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid” and Windows Vista SP1. Though using Vista is not particularly ideal, it does run all the latest and greatest apps which most of the world want me to run. On Ubuntu [...]

Vista – My Thoughts

Every now and again Microsoft feels the need to bestow a new, unstable operating system on us all. This hasn’t always been a bad thing. The transition from Windows 3.0 to Windows 95 and Windows 98 to XP really were good – Windows 95 brought greater capabilities to the user – and everyone balked at [...]