Celeb @ DOVE PC Surgery

Pic: Verden Allen, Iwan Roberts and Mervyn Jones.
PC Surgery in DOVE had a Celebrity client, Verden Allen, the keyboard player from the 70s band Mott the Hoople had free advice on internet access.

Testing the Wii

The DCN team are running a Technology Fair in Glynneath next Monday (19th 4-7PM) so I HAD to test the equipment was working, BUT I didn't get a look in! Kay and Malcolm tested the Baseball and Bowling for me, great fun! lol.

Photo Booth on MacBook

Colin (volunteer in DOVE and Glynneath), Steven (my brother), Steve (from Glynneath) and me have our pictures taken using the built in camera in the MacBook and distorted by the Photo Booth software :) Who said new technology can’t be fun?

New MacBook

The DCN team all received new toys last week, a MacBook each, I have been using it for a week now. One of the first things I did was download boot camp so I could dual boot to Windows (sorry geek talking). Owen gave me a demo of Mac OS X, but I am a complete novice, so I'll have to play with it when I get the time, but for now I'll stick to Windows on a Mac :)

After one week of use I have to say the MacBook is a nice machine, my old Evesham notebook screen has broken (screen will not light), so I had to return it to Evesham for repair. I am glad I have a MacBook!

Likes: Very good battery life (3 hours), highly glossy screen, powerful processor, big hard disk.

Dislikes: Mac OS X, US style keyboard (e.g. shift 2 = @), small screen (13")

Open Day in Glynneath

Been a busy day in Glynneath today, there has been over 100 people through on the open / enrolment day.

I borrowed the display board (above) from DOVE for the computer components in a PC, it isn't quite finished, but was a talking point and something for people to see. Hopefully it will be hung on the wall for all to see :)

I signed up 2 clients for next week (this week is already full) and 1 new volunteer, so not a bad result!

Bling Hello Kitty Notebook

When I saw this Notebook I just thought of serveral people who may want one. 199,500 Yen (£829) so get saving :)

Original post: http://www.pclaptop-review.com/2007/06/08/nec-shows-off-pink-hello-kitty-notebook/

Regards

Michael.

Faulty Card Reader

After my last problems with Dell I thought I would try Dabs.com for my next purchase, they had a good over on, order £75+ and have £5.00 off and free delivery if I order over £100, so I made up an order, a big 500GB hard disk (I’ve filled my 250GB drive), an external enclosure for my old 250GB drive and a USB 2 multi card reader to download for my camera’s pictures and to make the order upto £100.

The order was delayed fours days for security checks! I knew I shouldn’t have asked from delivery to the ARC. Ha.Ha.

I spent the last two nights copying data from my old drive to the new one, fitting the new one in my PC and fitting the old one from my PC into the enclose, so I can keep a backup of my files.

Last night I thought I would download the pictures from my camera using the new Dabs Value 53-in-1 External USB2.0 Reader @ 480 mega bits per second (sorry I was an excided geek).







I plugged in the card reader, 4 new hard drives displayed, gr8, inserted my camera’s compact flash card into the reader, 4 drives disappeared, O know I thought, unplugged it, 4 drives displayed once more. I know I’ll try the card which came with the camera, plugged it in, off they went again! Looks like I’ve got a faulty card reader. I’ll have to pack it up and send it back.

Maybe I should buy things locally.

Regards
Michael.