Tag Archives: Laptop

Jan
21
2013

The moving of Projects

by Philip McGaw

I have recently rethought about how I want to lay out my on-line presence. Since getting a job where I can do awesome things, and get paid for them, I am going to start putting more time and effort into keeping PhilipMcGaw.com updated. I have already uploaded and plan to keep up-to-date the write up of FACTs “Art [...]

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May
17
2012

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 2

by Skippy

Following on from Part One, I finally got round to playing with this a bit more; however I still have not had any luck with running Mac OS X Lion on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Mid 2007 Mac (an A1283) with only 1 Gig of Ram  however I have bought 2 Gigs from Crucial with [...]

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Apr
04
2012

bmi.js is not my baby

by Skippy

I’m currently using a T-Mobile 3G mobile connection to do most of my web browsing, as well as the area I am living in not having any signal strength; I have been getting more and more miffed at the image compression and bmi.js, ( I have written about this before). Bmi.js, and I guess the image [...]

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Feb
22
2012

O2 and T-Mobile on Compressing the Web.

by Skippy

We have known for a while that O2 compress and manipulate the internet connection that they offer to their mobile internet users. For this test I am using the The ISO 12233 Target, and a randomly mildly ammusing mame I found online. The ISO 12233 target was developed for digital camera applications. It includes several diffrent patterns, [...]

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Dec
22
2011

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 1

by Skippy

For the last few years I have been using a Mac Mini as my desktop; With Lion being released, and installed on my Mac Book Pro, now after using it for a while I want to use it on my mac mini as well; one of the annoying problems with it however is it requires [...]

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Jun
03
2011

Mobile wifi Internet

by Skippy

A while ago I wrote about my experiences with unlocking a Three Data Modem; recently I picked up a Edimax 3G-6210n GPRS USB Modem to Wi-Fi (and wired) router, I plan to use this at Medieval Siege Society events, and while away with the car (it has an internal battery ). Setting the box up is easy; [...]

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May
15
2011

Running Boot Camp Windows on OS X using Parallels

by Skippy

As I now have installed Windows 2008 R2 on my Mac; I am looking to also run the same copy of Windows under OS X as a Virtual machine; other things that DreamSpark allows me to have access to, is Visual Studios. Also with my .ac.uk email address is the ability to buy student copies [...]

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Mar
31
2011

Number 33 – New Laptop :D

by Skippy

While in Plymouth Last weekend I bought my self a new Macbook Pro Laptop; this will replace both my Desktop (a Mac Mini) and my old Laptop; an Advent 4211 netbook. I am currently in the process of moving all files and settings from my two old computers; as well as files stored on two [...]

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