http://thickey.com Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:45:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little while ago I decided to buy thickey.tv, I was not sure what to do with it but decided to shove a whole bunch of youtube videos on there. It is a Tumblr system, sort of like a simple blog. I could have posted the videos on here, but ... http://thickey.com/?p=288 So, at work we are slowly moving our server infrastructure away from its current platform. There are several reasons for this, cost, easer to maintain etc. I have played with a few things and gotten the hang of it, but before I point anything important to it I thought ... http://thickey.com/?p=287 Yesterday was the first day that Apple started to sell DRM free music on its iTunes store. I think this is a very very smart move by Apple and a leap of faith for EMI who are the first of the big music companies to go the DRM free route. This ... http://thickey.com/?p=286 I have decided that it is about time that I did a format and reinstall of my macbook pro. Over the past year and a bit I have installed and uninstalled and installed once again lots and lots of applications etc.  As with with windows I have noticed that my laptop ... http://thickey.com/?p=285 I got a cool sun jar from Danetti and thought that I would put a little video up as a review. [youtube dbd2jqUS8S4] It is a great product and works well as an ambient light source at night. You can get it from Danetti.com here, currently priced at £18.99 http://thickey.com/?p=282 I have been using a great open source programme called TVShows the past few days, it enables me to catch up with shows that I have missed or are not being broadcast on UK TV. I have previously been using a website called TVTorrents, This works on the same ... http://thickey.com/?p=280 I, like the rest of the western world, have been awaiting the announcement and then the release of that Apple iPhone for well over a year now, a few months ago when the product was announced I think it hit almost all the bullet points on people feature wish ... http://thickey.com/?p=276 I have picked up a few more things in the past months that would be classed as gadgets and toys.  I of course got myself a Wii (before Christmas as well!), an AppleTV is now hooked up to my TV and I have just got a new Nokia N95 phone. I ... http://thickey.com/?p=274 I was asked by two people this week about my blog, so I guess that I should try and update it a little more regularly.  About 50% of all blog posts go along these lines.. but this is the first one here in over 250 posts,  so there you go. The ... http://thickey.com/?p=273 I have decided today to remove the bootcamp partition on my MacBook pro.  I set this up when I got my mac so that I could run in a windows environment if/when needed.  Since then I have successfully used a combination of parallels and crossover to run any windows applications ... http://thickey.com/?p=267