This may well sound like an advert for something that does not need advertising, but since upgrading my phone to the HTC Desire S a couple of weeks ago I've discovered a number of wonderful things.

Quite apart from Shredder Chess, O2's free Cloud wifi service, the ability to create/upload web pages to a remote server and wirelessly move files from ( Read more... )

Skyrim, the latest role-playing adventure game from Bethesda, just arrived on my doorstep today. For those who neither know nor care about computer games, this is an event sort of on a par with the release of a new Star Wars movie, and has been greeted by the gaming community in a similarly mixed way.

Most folks are unanimous in praising the game ( Read more... )

Well bugger me, it never, ever occurred to me that I may be able to do this on a phone! I've accidentally discovered I can make web pages on my phone and FTP them to a remote server.

This basic little demo page was coded as a result of the following experimental process. I used the following three apps:

• ES File Explorer
• 920 Text Editor
• Opera Mobile

I ( Read more... )

Chessbase is the company behind Fritz, one of the chess programs I use. As well as making chess engines that Kasparov uses for training, they also compile whacking great databases of played games that can be analysed by pro chess players, huge great tutorial DVDs with databases of annotated games and video tuition, and they run an online server ( Read more... )

So ( Read more... )

There's a game coming out on 11/11/11 called Skyrim. It's the fifth game in a series of role-playing games (RPGs) called the Elder Scrolls series.

I always used to hate role playing games with an unsually passionate loathing, until Ms rhapsody9 showed me how they worked. It was at that point I started to enjoy the sheer richness of the content of games like ( Read more... )

Spoke to the lovely woman who lives on the top floor, Camilla. She doesn't mind having her wall hacked to bits on the 16th May, so I'm going to send the wall-hacking guy up to her first, then the folks on floor two. That should take two weeks, by which time the Kitchen should be finished, so I'll be abel to get the stuff back in there ready for the ( Read more... )

Oh, one thing I really must mention, and that's Microsoft's One Note.

I often reserch things online. Of late I've been trawling the internet finding out about Astronomy, Chess and Photography. Up until yesterday I would cut and paste text into Notepad++ (which I use for pretty much everything) and save my notes and clippings in a text file. OK, that ( Read more... )

I managed to get the Magic Three Days off next week, giving me 11 consecutive days with no work ( Read more... )

Since receiving the awesome and amazing Nikon D60 from my Father for Christmas a couple of years ago, I never really did the decent thing and sat down with the manual, and learned each and every one of its functions.

There's a certain degree of hypocrisy inherent in this behaviour of mine, since I often make it clear that I have little time for ( Read more... )