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Xmas came in the mail yesterday

I got all the things i bought of pixmania yesterday morning, it felt like chritmas:

Logitech G5 mouse, this is without a doubt the single greatest mouse i have ever used, it so slick and smooth, and resoponsive, im still getting used to the changing the sensitivity, the feature works so well in windows and games, but the extra buttons can get confusing in the heat of the moment. The weights cartridge works well too, im still trying out different amounts of weights, slightly on the heavy side is working well for me. Only issue i have with it is that the back button has stopped working in firefox, but im sure that can be sorted out easily. If u want to improve ur score in first person games this is a must.

10/10

The Canon MP500, its a beast of a printer, pretty huge and heavey, but looks so sweet, you get so much for what you pay, its scanner, stand-alone copier and printer. It also has a built in card reader and colour LCD screen. I havent used it much yet, but the 3 prints i have done from it look great and were easily fast enough once it finished booting up. The scanner is years ahead of the last one i used and the software works great too, i can see me keeping this printer for a good few years.

9/10

I also got a logitech webcam, only a cheap one as i wont be using it loads and its only over a 1mb connection so the quality doesnt matter too much, i was impressed with it tho. Simple install, nice stand and good enough picture for what i need, unless u are doing web conferenceing or more fancy things over specialist programs, most people wouldnt need more than this, logitech is in my good books at the mo, with webcma, keyboard and 3 mice all working great.

7/10

This little cube is a bluetooth dongle, very cheap at only £10, but works well, i tired it out with my brothers phone and it did the usual stuff as well as bluetooth can i guess. Will come in useful for my next phone. I might hide it inside the pc on the back of my 6 port usb card to keep it out of the way. Only problem i had with it was that the cd and instructions were in french, i managed to install it in english but its jsut a bit annoying.

6/10

I had a 60gb laptop harddrive left over from a spare laptop with had a borken mother board, so i boguht a case with a usb converter, and this one works a treat, it can get all its power from 1 usb port and transfers very quickly. Fits nicely in your pocket too. I’ll make good use of that when i get back to plymouth.

9/10

I boguht these headphones my old maplins specials were hurting my ears, these are very high quality for the price and come with a boom mic, for teamspeak to mike once he gets DOD in the new year.

8/10

All in all a great haul, now im skint until my loan gets in at the start of jan, then i’l lthink about a new hdd for my tower and maybe a cheapo laptop like my brothers. and one more pic of my new lovely G5 and G15 to finish.

Decaf tea

What is the point in it?

Decaf tea or coffee i mean, i saw an advert for it today, surely 99% of people drink tea or coffee for the caffine, the boost. To either wake them up or keep them going. So tea without caffine proves to be pointless, without it it wont taste as nice either because your not getting the slightly addictive caffine which is what makes ur brain think its nice.

I cant imagine anyone smoking nicotine-free cigerettes!

That would be bloody horrible, and completely pointless too!

And alcohol-free beer and wine (although alcohol-free wine does have a lot of sugar, which kinda makes up for it), whats the point, surely these are pointless products?!

Heres another blog about caffine
Some funny Coffee Addict pics

Useful Software List

Web Browser: Firefox 1.5
The perfect free Open source Web-browser

Mulit-Client Messenger: Gaim
The best MultiClient Messenger I’ve found. MSN, Yahoo, AIM etc in a tabbed window

Programming IDE: Visual C# 2005 Express Edition

Burning Software: Nero 6
Great for burning pretty much everything to CD or DVD

Web Editor: Dreamweaver 8
Very good Editor for any type of website/webfile, with a ftp client built-in.

Disc Copying: Alcohol 120%
Copies and emulates Pretty much any disc, and has a Virtual drive for images.

Music Player: iTunes 6
I use Itunes because it likes my ipod nano and apart from being a bit of a bloater, works pretty well.

Video Palyer: Media player Classic + Klite Codec Pack
This package along with Media player classic plays pretty much any video you can throw at it.

Cleanup and Repair: TuneUp Utilities 2006

Image Editing: Paint.NET
Not overcomplex, but does most image things i need and its free too.

File Compression: WinRAR 3.5
Winrar is a must have for anyone using the internet for uncompressing everytype of archive.

Email: Thunderbird 1.5
Firefox companion for email, and RSS too.

Bitorrent: uTorrent 1.3
Without a doubt the best bittorrent program around. Tiny, fast and full of great features.

Image Organisation: Picasa 2
Keeps track of all your pictures and does some simple editing too, a must for flickr addicts.

Others:
Flock - A great browser but not quite ready for the mainstream
7zip - Best compression around but not polished enough for every day use yet.

Boring day and songbird

I did hardly anything today, last night i played about with thunderbird for checking emails, and tried using rss feeds, but its still very weird and i’m not sure if i’ll get used to it.

Went to dads and watched tv, ate even more left over xmas food than yesterday, and played “buzz” the music quiz on ps2 and won both times
The next piece of software i’m looking forward to is Songbird, its a music player built on the firefox technology and looks to be like an open source iTunes, iTunes being my music player of choice, but if songbird can work with ipods then i’ll definatly use it.

And thats about all i’ve done, still waiting on the IBM thinkpad and all my self bought presents to be delievered, hopefully something will turn up tomorrow so i have something to do, otherwise i can see me re-installing windows again, possibly with 2000, jsut to see how well it performs.

New slippers

Mum got me these for xmas, they are huge and soft and comfy, although i do prefer the ones lauren got me, as they are simpsons and go D’oh when u press them.

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