Archive for July, 2008

Kodak PhotoCDs - A Warning

Back in the early 1990's, when I took a photographic film to my local shop to be processed and printed, I chose to have my negatives scanned and the resulting digital images written to a Kodak PhotoCD.  At the time, it cost an incredible £16, including the disc to have this done. But how fantastic to collect not only a set of photographic prints, but a shiny, Gold coloured CD with all my pictures on in digital format.  Now I could load any of my photographs into Paintshop Pro, remove any unwanted artefacts, crop it, zoom it, change the brightness and ...
Congratulations, you have just joined the thirty per cent of Xbox 360 owners who are experiencing the red ring problem. This problem is very apparent when the screen turns blue and the message to contact xbox support or a disk read error will appear. You will also have the 3 flashing red rings instead of the normal green rings around the power button. The Xbox 360 red ring is caused by a general hardware failure condition brought on by too much heat in the console box. Just like any high powered computer with advanced microelectronics, the Xbox 360 ...
Computer virus, spyware and adware share some similarity. All three are extremely irritant for surfers and other computer users. Let’s distinguish the three. Spyware is software that does not purposely damage your hard disk. They make pathways in which someone else then the owner of the computer can be in touch with the computer. More often than not spyware record the diverse types of sites you go to. Afterward online marketers use these records to send you spam mails and pop-ups. This is why computer users find spyware very irritating. They are more disturbing than adware. ...