New FireFox plugin from Performancing.com

This is my first post from my Performancing.com plugin. What a useful tool! it opens up in a split screen so you can post to your blog while you are still on the page you are browsing, you can even copy and paste text formatting. This is awsome! I'll write up more on it after I play with it and post some messages to my wordpress site.

Latest Gadget - Kodak Easyshare printer and 4MP camera series 3

My girl won a camera and printer setup in a prize draw (lucky!).

It was on the side when I got up in the morning, "who's that for?" says I.
"oh, I won it in a contest" says she.
"oh did I?" I exclaimed with great excitement, "I've never won a camera before!"
"you didn't", she says.
"oh :-( ", I say and sneakily move the box to somewhere else.



I couldn't wait to open it and play around with the printer, the packaging was good and I took all the pieces out and was going to fiddle with it straight away but instead, I put the pieces in their myriad plastic covers back in the box and went and delivered some leaflets only to run back because I was expecting a delivery of Christmas Presents for my friends.



When I went back and started to put the pieces of the printer together I realised that there was a plastic piece missing! A see-through moulded shape that fits on top of the printer that's supposed to hold the camera snugly, the camera still fit's on although it is a little wobbly.

I haven't had much chance to use it yet, I took a couple of pictures but mostly I spent my time looking for a piece of plastic which I could have sworn was in the box when I started, I even checked the rubbish bin to see if I had thrown it away. poo.

Next time I get something through the post, I'll wait until I'm properly awake before I unpack it!

At least I have a reasonably sized resolution camera, now I can take a picture for my show and tell on Charles's Blog, it wont be long before my shuttle-x and my white cat get shot (photographically speaking) and put up here!

When I get some more play time with my Kodak camera and printer I'll put a more detailed review up here.

Brain ache!
I spent the whole night with my head deep in php, I've been adding buttons and changing the layout of my lotto blog. I learnt how to query mysql, use WordPress template tags and why curly brackets are sooo different to normal ones :)

I should really let camtasia record what happens when I get in the geek zone, I have a 1280x1024 screen with a double height task bar full of buttons, photoshop, dreamweaver, firefox, bitcomet, bnbt easytracker, msgtag, googletalk, trillian, outlook and what can only be described as a mosaic of systray icons and I use them all!!

In fact, I will do it. I'll do a recording of my next lottery results post. That takes a few different copy and pastes to different apps!

gtalk and a long walk.

Hey hey!! I've been super busy lately with my other blog and had a HUUUGE long walk delivering my new flyers.

CK was chatting about gtalk in the BE shoutbox, I saw all the messages to and fro-ing so I downloaded it and he was kind enough to let me add him as a buddy (what has he done? oh no! psycho brit stalker alert) :-)

It looks really snazzy and smooth like the gmail service, the invitation widget and add buddy was as simple as could be and the chat box that popped up when CK messaged me was slick. There's not much else to add. I'm sure the Google folk will think of nice new things to go in it like video conferencing so until then, wait and see!. I haven't bought a headset yet but I'll be going into the shops tomorrow to buy one. Until then, you can add me to your gtalk with my user id

BIG WALK & TALK!


ok so here's my flyer I *cough* made for my lotto thang, I got 5000 of the little buggers.:-)
I spent ages and ages looking for designs, something funny or eye catching and couldn't do it until, at the stroke of the witching hour, I saw a "my feet have turned into mice" cartoon and another couple stick man tangs so in the spirit of the internet, I swiped it. I tried to contact the author but he hasn't been active on the site the image was stored at for over 6 months.

I did searches for his username and so on, so in the spirit of the rules of acquisition, specifically #299 - thanks Joseph Rice for a great cartoon!

My adventures started in the local high street where I gave out a few hundred cards, it was bit tough going at first but I got into it and went home for lunch (pot noodle and bread). I ended up going into London on the train and gave a flyer to every single person onboard, did it on another one too! (give leaflets that is).

I ordered a whole load of gifts from shopboxuk , I've nearly got all my gifts for krimbo now, only my girls mum and daughter left (the most expensive!). I know my miss lovely will like her present, we were shopping and she picked it up and admired it, stroked it and then looked inside (eyes pop!) and quickly put it back so I went back the next day and bought it. great!

This is Mr. Brown! lol. I bought it for Kelvin (that's what my missus calls him). He likes that sort of thing!.
They've got a whole host of turds there, things like Plop Idol and The Turdinator! lol

It's crazy what will sell these days! I would have loved to get one of these so I could proclaim it was a shit present! :-)












Seasons greetings everyone, I know it's early but buggery poo, I love krimbo time!!

Thanks for the visits one and all, please leave a comment if you feel like it. I'll be putting this blog on BE soon and abandoning my Glytch Blog so all aboard!

25.50GBP Disc Printer Review

I got delivery of my new disc printer from TDK today. I was really looking forward to this since I ordered it from EclipseComputers UK, there was a bit of a mix up with the order as their automated verification system didn't like my address. I emailed them and got a reply to phone them, the helpful person located the order, did a manual check and promised me the printer by Monday morning (2pm Monday so not bad seeing as this is London).

It was super simple to setup, it was harder to unwrap it than anything else. Once you remove the sticky tape that holds the drawer shut you have to wait until you install the software before you plug it in, once that's done it locates the drivers as soon as you connect the USB lead.

Pressing the eject button pops the drawer open and you can remove the cardboard filler and install the ribbon cassette, this is where I realised I should have read the description better! Impulse buying coz it was cheap :-) It's a dot-matrix printer with an ink ribbon capable of 200dpi mono.

Using the bundled label design software was a breeze, there's a walk-thru help window that tells you what each section does as you go to it. Importing images is a bit basic because of the simplistic image resizing method. You are better off, loading your image into Photoshop and resizing it there.

200dpi isn't too good for images and I found I needed to make it as simple as possible to even look ok, the first prints looked like they'd been rubber stamped on with not enough ink but changing to a bolder font made the text look good and increasing the darkness in the options fixed the image.


My phone doesn't take good pictures in low light but you can see it doesn't look too bad, not really what I was after but for the price I didn't expect miracles! It would be a good less-than-50- quid Christmas present for any geek in your family.

This purchase has just renewed my passion for a scanner/printer/copier/disc printer. I'm looking for one that doesn't have hugely priced ink and that wont take over my entire front room!.

Thanks to all that have visited even though I had only 1 post, it's great to have a blog just for my techy things and a big thanks to Charles for creating this great template.

Anyone out there had any experience with inkjet disc printers? Please leave a comment and let me know!

Gay guy has designs for a straight guy!

Can you believe it? An email on what I like, a .gif sent by outlook and a few messenger to's and fro's and it's here, my new blog. Unbelievable!
The surrogate coder, blog birth daddy is C.Jordan from Bend It Like a Banana.

He's re-vamped my other site too and he just roks.

I'm off to a conference tomorrow so I'll fill my blog with all my info and links over the weekend.

yay first transmission!