Transmission – Torrents Are Viable

The very mention of the word torrent signifies illegal activity and the acquisition of files in a non-legitimate fashion. It's a shame because for all it's misuse BitTorrent is actually an extremely useful protocol that when used properly provides a fast and reliable way for people to share data. I guess it's fair to say that it's not so much the concept but how people decide to use it or in this case misuse it. In today's digital media society the connected nature of our existence and the exten...
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Review: NIN Ghosts

I have long been a fan of Nine Inch Nails, the musical creations of Trent Reznor have provided me with many hours of escapism over the years. In fact I would go as far as to say that from my introduction to the world of alternative music over a decade ago no other band has been as consistent in their provision of great music. In addition to being a great musician Trent has embraced the world of new media and the need for change in the distribution of content - NIN gigs are frequently recorded in...
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Review: DaisyDisk & AppZapper

Have you ever wondered where all the space on your hard drive went? Have you spent time aimlessly navigating through folders trying to identify files that you no longer need to regain some much needed space? I think most computer users will know what I'm talking about. Enter DaisyDisk a wonderful, graphic driven hard disk analyser. DaisyDisk provides a visual mapping of any drives currently mounted on your system, internal system drives, external Firewire or USB drives. Once the application ...
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Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB

After about a week of waiting my recent order with Amazon arrived yesterday evening. I had almost given up on it coming and disappointingly got more than a little upset with the courier, at around 8.30 however a van pulled up at the door with the much anticipated brown parcel. I was surprised by the late delivery and also really happy it had arrived. One of the items in my box of goodies was a new external hard drive. I already own three Western Digital External drives each having served me well...
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Getting Things Done With Things

A series of screencasts developed in a couple of hours to outline how to use Things from Cultured Code to support the "Getting Things Done" process developed by David Allen. Videos are available on YouTube and are in HD. I hope you find them useful, as always any constructive feedback is welcome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ7gy6sEHuc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2faOEgFuOKM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdNzUGyJdow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q3h1pvjARs http://www.yout...
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Putting Getting Things Done Into Practice

A couple of days ago I received my copy of Getting Things Done by David Allen, the book has received fantastic praise among the new media fraternity and indeed in the wider world of business. Hundreds of thousands of people have found the book to be a "game changer" - providing them with a better quality of life and effectively helping them in the core principle of getting things done. I am usually very skeptical of self help books of any type, although in recent years from personal experience m...
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Getting Things Done, Amazon Order, Pacific & Kate Beckinsale

I decided late last night to refrain from working today, not exactly the most strategic of decisions considering the amount of things I need to get done in the next couple of weeks, but it may well prove to be best option. Firstly it's a Bank Holiday and there are very few people doing anything work related today, I find it very hard to work when I know everyone else isn't. Secondly and more importantly I just need some me time, so I intend to spend the next twelve hours taking things relatively...
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Review: Delicious Library

"If you're a geek you are going to love this..." That's what a friend told me when she was sitting at my desk in front of my MacBook Pro a couple of weeks ago. Of course she knew exactly what she was saying and doing as she loaded in the home page for Delicious Library. Ten minutes later I was captivated, ecstatic and riding high on the wave of geek euphoria - "this is bloody awesome" or something to that effect came from deep within my soul. It was one of those special moments that you think ba...
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Claire Tully – Model Citizen

For the second of my interview segments I have been extremely lucky to have the gorgeous, intelligent and talented Claire Tully answer a few questions. Claire is a model from Ireland who has been involved in acting, sports commentary, podcasting and raising awareness for breast cancer. I believe you have a 1:1 degree in Biochemistry (and immunology!). Where did your passion for science come from and have you any plans to return to Biochemistry in the future? I have always believed I was born...
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Review: Hazel

Newtons first law of motion states that "an object at rest tends to stay at rest..." well I guess the same can be said of digital objects too. Whether it be downloading files that all stack up in your downloads folder, things that you are working on that generally find themselves on the desktop - files just tend to stay clumped with little or no organisation or order in their placement. Sure from time to time you may manually go through and clean up a portion of your hard drive, you may even org...
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Karen Gillan Doctor Who Interview

The Doctor's gorgeous new companion interviewed on GMTV, the new season of Doctor Who commences tonight on BBC 1 at 6.20pm. I for one cannot wait!! [flashvideo filename=wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Karen_Gillian_GMTV_Interview.mp4 /] Image & Video copyright GMTV 2010
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Review: LaunchBar 5

Sometimes applications seem to offer very little enhancement to what you can already do in a given work flow, you look at certain applications thinking why would I possibly need that. Sometimes applications can be deceiving in what enhancement they truly provide and it is only through personal extensive use that you begin to appreciate the nuances of benefit that they offer. LaunchBar most certainly falls into the latter category. Developed by Objective Development, LaunchBar is an award winning...
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