Author Archives: Bob Toovey
My Mum phoned for some tech support today. She was unable to get her browser to bring up any web pages. Her laptop runs Windows and it really didn’t give any indication what was wrong. She is not computer illiterate but doesn’t know enough to know what to look for. Down in the system tray [...]
I recently came across this tiny low cost computer from a company called Raspberry Pi. It’s based on a ARM processor and comes in two versions, $25 without an ethernet port and $35 with. It is aimed at the educational market to encourage kids to play and experiment with computers. I plan to get one when [...]
Craig at This French Life has an interesting post about capping, that means enforcing a maximum connection speed to the Internet. Many ISP’s say you have an ‘unlimited’ connection where in reality they will impose a maximum speed. That’s usually detailed in the small print. I’m not sure how they still get away with advertising [...]
I was thinking this morning, how few installed applications I actually use. I have two main activities, blogging and programming. For blogging, I use Gimp and Inkscape for graphics. I also use Text Editor (the one that comes with Ubuntu) for filtering and quick editing of text that has been sent to me for publishing. They [...]
Well it’s Monday and the start of my first 30 day challenge. I’m going meat free so vegetarian meals for a month. It also gives me an excuse for some gratuitous Nigella Lawson…
I really like the following videos. Stories of how one individual can be inspired to find a solution, to help people who need it. Who are not afraid to share their ideas for the benefit of all. That’s when communities (local or world wide, Internet or not) all chip in to make the ideas reality.
On my other blog I posted a video from TED featuring Matt Cutts and his 30 day challenges. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and decided I will give it a go. The ideas I have had so far are… Go meat free with a vegetarian diet Walk for a minimum of one [...]
I have just found this rather interesting radio program by the BBC. It does a good job of explaining open source software and it’s benefits. Paul Bennun finds out how Free and Open Source software is making its impact felt across the world, fuelling development and saving small businesses millions of pounds. You can listen [...]
Hello reader! My name is Bob Toovey and I hope you already aware of who I am from my other blog, Tint-Network. This blog is for the things I would like to post about but are just not suitable for my first blog. So, I shall be posting about computers, blogs and all the techy [...]
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