Nik's Blog

Just another blog that will won't get updated and no one will ever read…

Category: Geek

  • Well, as you probably all know I am pretty much a Geek and a Spod, but I only scored 18 out of 20. So perhaps I’m not a Geeky or Spoddy as I thought I was. But can you guess which questions I didn’t answer yes to ? Source: Kludge…

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  • I would just like to say thank you to everyone who has read this blog. As you are reading this, I have just hit my 2000 page view. So, once again, thank you for stopping by and reading.

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  • Now heres something you don’t see everyday, a ‘life sized’ Lego man has been washed up on a beach in the Netherlands. Now how big is a ‘life sized’ Lego man ? Lego people are only normally a few centimeters tall. Source: ABC News AU

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  • Apple have just released iTunes 7.3. Which according to Apple “…provides bug fixes to improve stability and performance”. The download is 33.8mb (same size as 7.3.1) for the Mac version and 47.7mb (slightly larger) for the Windows version. Source: Apple iTunes

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  • Apple has just release an update for it’s Bonjour software, it looks like it now support Windows Vista (which I don’t think it did before) 32 bit & 64 bit. There is no list of whats been fixed, or what issues are still in the software, but I guess thats…

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  • The latest buzz on the InternetTabletTalk forums has been about a beta release of a Mozilla based browser for the Nokia N800s. The browser is based on the Mozilla Gecko engine, and as well as supporting web standards, it also supports things like AJAX & RSS feeds.It looks as if…

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  • I’ve just turned on my Mac, and VersionTracker has just told me about update to iTunes, QuickTime & Microsoft Office 2004. iTunes  is now at version 7.3.1. This update apparently fixes a minor problem accessing the iTunes library. QuickTime 7.2, looks like it’s finally going to support full screen (which…

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  • It lo0ks like that the new firmware for the Nokia N800 is out. It’s called ‘OS 2007 edition v. 4.2007.26-8. This has got the following changes (from the Nokia N800 Support site):- Skype client support After downloading the new software for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and installing Skype, users…

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  • I’ve been following some of the post on InternetTabletForum again, and it appear they Skype is back again on the Nokia N800. After updating the Application List (I went into Application Manager, then into Tools/Refresh Application List), then went into ‘Browse Installable Applications/Multimedia’ you can see several Skype installation packages,…

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  • There has been some chatter on the InternetTabletTalk website today about Skype finally being seen (and them promptly removed again) from the Application Manager on the Nokia N800 (when the local packages were updated). I don’t think anyone has got it to work yet (as the files seem to have…

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