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You might think that having use of a USB broadband modem free of charge is the equivalent of a license to print money.
After all, why worry about the costs of going online via the cellular network when you don’t have to pay the bill?
Well, I’m sure the folk at mobile operator 3 and 3mobilebuzz will [...]

I’m taking part in a trial of 3’s mobile broadband offering, courtesy of 3 and 3mobilebuzz.
What this means is that I get to play with 3’s mobile broadband service during the next three months or so, for free; in return, the folks at 3mobilebuzz want me to write a bit about my experiences.
3’s offering comes [...]

Today, following an overnight update with a bunch of hotfixes and patches as part of Microsoft’s patch Tuesday for April, Windows Update offered Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista for my Dell XPS 420.
Although SP1 has been available since mid March, it’s only now that it will be offered via Windows Update in a [...]

A definite ‘OMG moment’ with a computer is when you boot it up and see an error message indicating a problem with your hard drive.
My OMG moment this evening looked like this:

Doubly alarming as it happened after both hard drives in the system - a brand new Dell XPS 420 I received less than [...]

The Event Viewer tool in recent versions of Windows is a useful means to understand some of the things that happen on your computer, especially when you’re looking for why an error of some kind occurred.
In its simplest sense, Event Viewer records details of every single thing going on in your computer. What the operating [...]

Because I’m a podcaster, I use the Podpress plugin for WordPress on my main blog.
It makes it easy for visitors to listen to a podcast here and now - all you have to do is click on the ‘play’ image you see on a post that has a podcast available (see this FIR post for [...]

That’s a question I’ve been asking myself every time I check the results of any Windows updates, or do a manual check myself.
Every time, the screen shows this:

Ever since I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my Dell desktop PC last April, only one Ultimate Extra has ever shown up via Windows Update.
That one is [...]

One of the plugins for WordPress that I’ve used for ages is Bad Behaviour.
Along with Akismet, this plugin is at the front line of defence against spam and other ugly stuff that hits your blog on a regular basis.
As with all plugins that I regard as essential, I tend to upgrade to the latest version [...]

I took part in an experiment today to try out ooVoo, a new video conferencing and messaging service that, according to its Wikipedia entry, is similar to Skype video calling.
Similar indeed as both services use the internet for their connection and a webcam to communicate. Both also offer additional features, notably phone calling and text [...]

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 could be released on Monday February 4, according to TechARP:
[...] Microsoft will be deploying Service Pack 1 in two "waves". Wave 0, which is the one released on February 4, will only include five languages - English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. The second wave, Wave 1, is scheduled for [...]