Category Archives: General

Dilbert and Twitter

Great strip on how to use twitter to improve your working day

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Reliant Robin Space Shuttle built by Top Gear

A classic clip from topgear and its educational too!!

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Converting problematic time coded dvds to mpeg using DVDx

As part of the Upperchurch GAA DVD project I have a number of DVDs whose vob time codes are incorrect. These clips might be 30 mins long but are coded with durations of 16 seconds, 24 seconds etc. This causes … Continue reading

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Testdisk – a tool for data recovery for an external usb hard drive

My 120GB Western Digital external USB hard drive is dying a slow death. I have suspected for the past few weeks that there was an issue as it would be detected on a haphazard basis my Windows and Linux.Scandisk and … Continue reading

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College Laptops review on the Sunday Times

The Sunday times provides a decent review of laptops and their recommendations. Pros and cons are provided as well as sterling prices. Irish residents can do their own price research for the specific models on web sites such as www.dabs.ie

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Surrogates – the movie staring Bruce Willis

Looking forward to seeing this film when it goes on release on Sept 25th

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Google car is updating the tele atlas maps for Ireland

I was speaking to a TomTom rep this morning at Stakelums summer promotions, our discussion soon came around to the tele-atlas maps for Ireland which in my own opinion is behind Navteq in their coverage. He pointed out however that … Continue reading

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Channel 4 on LIDL Satellite Dish – Needs to be retuned

It was necessary to retune Channel 4 on my lidl aatellite dish as they have officially launched Channel 4 on FTA. It used to be known as channel 8350 but now it is listed as Channel 4 and has full … Continue reading

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Patrick Alexander Guitar Luthier – blackspotguitars.com

Its not often you walk in to your local pub on a Saturday night and the guy sitting at the bar beside you is a lutheir who has been making guitars for 20 years. Patrick made his first guitar at … Continue reading

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new contact email address

My new contact email address is liam at irishsilicon.com. If you have any queries etc you can email me.

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