Archive for February, 2007
Having enjoyed watching Earth TV and seeing cities from around the world on Sky Travel through the Earth TV webcams, I always hoped that it would be shown on the web.
Well, a couple of weeks ago, Earth TV revamped its website and now they are showing the same programme that gets syndicated on Sky Travel [...]
If you have always been tempted by using your broadband connection to make VOIP telephone calls, then sign up to FreeCall for what is probably the best value service around.
In order to use the service, you download the FreeCall software, then attach a headset or even a USB phone and then you are ready to [...]
USB flash drives are a wonderful way to store data and carry it with you on the move.
Just a bit taller than a small box of matches and about the thickness of a one pound coin, they’ve also dramatically come down in price recently.
You can pick up a 1GB drive for around £10 and often [...]
If you make phone calls throughout the day at home, you’ll know it can get quite expensive. You might have an unlimited call package add-on to your BT line rental, but you could be paying upwards of £10 a month for that.
So by the time you include the cost of line rental £11 (£10.75 if [...]
(Bunder disclosure: I have 200 shares in Trinity Mirror, owner of The Mirror)
Last week The Mirror relaunched its website. At first glance, it’s a bit of a shock to the system compared to other tabloids that are online.
Lots of black bold text with a very grey steel coloured framework around it.
At first glance, it looks [...]
After over a year of lack of blogging at Journalistic, I’ve decided to get back into blogging. But rather than host a blog on my own server and have all the hassles of updating software and installing various hacks, I’ve gone for the WordPress hosted option.
WordPress is cool software for blogging. Hosted WordPress is cool [...]
Virgin Mobile advertising fails to work
February 14, 2007 in Comment, Communications
It was bad enough when NTL was supposed to be providing cable services and now Virgin Media as the company has rebranded itself following a merger first with Telewest and now with Virgin Mobile.
You see the problem is that I have lived in an area (Park Royal, London NW10) where for the past nine years, [...]