Piracy!
Piracy in the digital age – An essay about piracy in the digital age. Is it really that bad?
The WWW is not the internet!
A real geek should know the difference, do you? Learn the difference and stop being a n00b.
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Wallpapers and T-shirts
Posted on October 18, 2011 by Jingles | 2 Comments
This is why I haven’t been posting much, I have been busy indulging in another one of my passions, design. I have designed 4 Junglist wallpapers and there will be plenty more to come.
I’ll be uploading and making my wallpapers available via wallbase.net, you can find my other 3 designs here, here and here.
I have also been working on some T-shirt designs and have started a project page to raise the money I need to get the T-shirts printed. Hitup my RocketHub project page and donate if you can, if you can’t then help spread the word.
For a preview of my other wallpapers [Read more...]
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Saving money with FOSS
Posted on October 14, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
The first PC I ever had was a Commodore 64, then my father upgraded and purchased an IBM compatible PC for the family. It was a 386 SX running at 66 Mhz, it had 4 MB of RAM, a 170 MB HDD, and it rocked Windows 3.11, it was the latest and greatest at the time and cost over $3,000! That was in the 90s, now it’s a lot cheaper to buy or build a PC. I can build a complete PC complete with a keyboard, mouse and monitor for less than $550 including a legitimate copy of Windows.
You can spend as little or as much as you want on building a PC, I spent over $5,000 building my last PC, plus the extra I have spent upgrading it. To some $5,000 might sound like an insane amount to spend on building a PC but it’s not really, I could easily spend twice as much.
I save so much on software that I can afford to spend thousands of dollars on building a new PC. I’ll regularly save 100% on software, the money I save gets spent on better hardware. Hardware is cheap, it’s software that is expensive, you could spend more on software than you spend on building or even buying a new PC. The only software I spend money on (apart from games) is an operating system, because I’m a gamer I run Windows so I have to spend money on the operating system. If I wasn’t a gamer then I would save even more money by running some flavor of Linux.
I’ll guarantee you that you can save 100% on a lot of software that you use. [Read more...]
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Another free wallpaper
Posted on October 10, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Another wallpaper, yes I love cammo patterns. Click on the image above for the full size 1920×1200 image on Wallbase.net. Leave a comment if you want to request a custom size.
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Free music
Posted on October 9, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
When I was setting up and testing Opera link I discovered two more web sites (thanks to Stumbleupon) for free music, Ivy League Spins and Dubatomic Music. Hit them up and treat your ears to some new choons!
Remember to support the artists you love, the venues that play host to your favorite artists and the crews that bring them to town by going and seeing them play live when they swing by your part of the world!
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Opera Link, another reason to love Opera
Posted on October 8, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
I have been using the Opera web browser for 10 years since version 6.0 and I’m always discovering new reasons to love it. Opera Link is the latest addition to the list of why I love Opera. [Read more...]
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For everyone that loves Jungle/D&B
Posted on October 4, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
This happens when I get bored sometimes. I create stuff. I was bored and started looking through some of my old design work and found a bunch of my old ‘Junglist’ designs. I got inspired and decided to take an unfinnished design and turn it into a wallpaper. It’s 1920 x 1200 but feel free to resize it or leave a comment to request a custom size.
download from Wallbase.net
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The perfect pair of jeans
Posted on October 1, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Everyone has a pair of jeans that that they absolutely love. They are those jeans that you loved to death, literally, wearing them until they were faded, the zipper is busted, ripped and full of holes. But when you go shopping you can’t find a new pair of jeans that are anywhere near as perfect as your old pair of jeans, that’s when you realise that your old pair of jeans were the perfect pair of jeans.
But what make that pair of jeans so perfect? What makes any pair of jeans more perfect than another pair of jeans? For some the perfect pair of jeans are skinny jeans, Levis jeans, diesel jeans, Nudie Jeans or possibly Pepe Jeans have been your most perfect pair of jeans ever. It might be the cut, the way they fit, how many pockets they have, or the way they look.
My perfect pair of jeans were a pair of Alphanumeric skate jeans. [Read more...]
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Changing gears
Posted on September 15, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
At the risk of poking somebodies eye out by wielding the blindingly obvious, there has been a lack of updates lately and there is a reason for that. [Read more...]
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Geekiest marriage proposal ever?
Posted on September 11, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
I don’t know whether this is awesome or plain outright insane, you be the judge.
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Free & legal music guide
Posted on September 10, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Free and legal music can sometimes seem like a bit like advanced BASIC, i.e. an oxymoron. It might be if you just want mainstream music, but If you are willing to leave the beaten track (no pun intended) there is some awesome music to be found if you look.
No mater what genre of music your into I bet you could fill an entire PMP/MP3 player with music you actually like that is not only legal but also totally free. [Read more...]
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