It would be a joke to call myself a technophobe, but there are times when I hate the world of technology.
Maybe ‘hate’ is the wrong word for an industry that compensates me well for doing a good job, but I do have my moments when I don’t like technology to be at my beck and [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:47 on May 20th, 2008 in Technology
No Comments »On the train to work if you are not packing a top of the line handheld or mobile device then you’re not saying anything.
It is customary on this train - or at least when I used to make that daily journey - to see an assortment of business executives, IT Consultants, Movers and Shakers getting [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 13:22:38 on May 13th, 2008 in Technology
2 Comments »Towards the end of last year, just as the world geared up to celebrate Christmas, a niece deftly asked me if I could consider buying her an iPhone. At £269 on top of a £35 per month contract it was not a very cheap present!
I responded, in a similarly deft fashion that I could not [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:41 on April 30th, 2008 in Technology
2 Comments »I wish some of the nifty, technological tools and applications available for making computer users’ lives stress free, were available as part of this daily life!
For instance, Windowws XP Professional’s System Restore feature allows you to revert your computer back to a date when it was working fine and trouble free! The great thing is [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:03 on April 24th, 2008 in Technology
No Comments »In recent times I’ve been playing around with Facebook, the social networking site that “connects you with the people around you.”
Basically, it’s a trendy site where people tell you what they’re doing, play games, quizzes, flirt with and interact each other. In short: it’s a fun place!
It can be extended by adding these “applications” which [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:03 on April 14th, 2008 in Technology
3 Comments »A friend from an Eastern European country asked for help on finding out whether a particular man she met online was genuinely interested in her or just ‘playing’ her.
In faltering English she said: “BlackMan, this man is big charmer. He says right things. Does right things. But something not right about him.”
They met online [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 09:23:49 on March 7th, 2008 in Technology
4 Comments »I finally got the opportunity to play around with Microsoft’s newish operating system Windows Vista recently and I must say how pretty it looks!
It did all the things I wanted to do in a very stylish way and I had the impression that underneath the hood it was much more powerful than my current operating [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 17:39:41 on February 5th, 2008 in Technology
No Comments »It’s proof of the democratisation of the internet when you can list Barack Obama, Jamie Foxx, Serena Williams, Beanie Man, Shaggy, Sean Paul and a few others, as your friends on a social networking website. Yes, Hammer BlackMan is getting huge!
But, allow me to explain…
I am a member of several social networking sites with names [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:13 on January 13th, 2008 in Technology
No Comments »Comments by some online forum users disenchanted with their internet service provider had me riveted. They all agreed that this particular ISP “sucked!” And they ran a site listing all the reasons why…
The domain name of their site was something like www.myispsucks.com and on it they outlined how this ISP was quick to shut down [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:21 on January 4th, 2008 in Technology
No Comments »Over the past few weeks I have had the chance (pleasure!) of laying my hands on some really high spec digital equipment! In fact I know own a set of these gadgets which in total has equipped me with the ability to run my own media studio. Indeed, technology has come a long, long way.
Being [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:56 on October 9th, 2007 in Technology
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