Andy on March 2nd, 2010

This made me laugh. First I heard of it, my son rang me and said the PS3 wasn’t working. I thought fair enough, I’ll take a look at it when I get home – it’s still under warranty anyway so not really concerned. Half an hour later one of my mates calls and says his [...]

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Andy on January 21st, 2010

New laptop time – this time around it’s a shiny Sony Vaio VGN-FW48E. Sony were kind/vindictive enough to pre-install the machine with Windows Vista which was no good to me as I actually want to do some stuff with the machine, not sit looking at a boot up logo all day or wait 15 minutes [...]

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Andy on December 23rd, 2007

I finlly decided I would cough up and get a PS3. It’s a lot of money, but unlike the general populace I know just how powerful this thing is, and not surprised it’s a lot more than a Nintendo console since they just use cheap out of date technology.Unfortunately, it turns out Sony have stopped [...]

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Andy on October 18th, 2007

I’m asked if I can transfer some video footage from a Sony Handycam DCR-HC35. Sounds simple enough so I happily install Sony’s software package “Sony Picture Package VCD Maker”.
Problem 1. After the install routine has completed I try hooking up the camera. A warning flashes up that I should have installed Macromedia Flash Player. This’ll [...]

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