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I Thought I had seen the end of impressive iPhone Apps, but this one took my breath away.

Let me reminice for a few seconds on an event which happened 5 years ago.  I was walking through the city of York with a friend when we came upon this girl who was having an asthma attack.  We called an ambulance, which said it would be five minutes.

In the meantime however we were stuck with a girl who could not breath and did not have an inhaler, what should we… Continue Reading»

This cute but deadly device caught my attention today, then made me laugh out loud.

And while there are some suspicions that this may just be a photo-shopped image, there have now been confirmed reports that the Hello Kitty taser gun is available to buy in store now!

The Hello Kitty Taser gun is a modified version of the Taser C2 Metallic pink, produced for the discerning female looking for a compact, stylish, personal protection device.

It does however worry me a little, knowing how much the Japanese girls like a… Continue Reading»

Blogging, once relatively unknown has recently taken the world by storm, people from countries around the globe have begun to release blogs on the internet, be they personal or for profit.

Hell, lets face it, this website is a blog, most of my other websites are blogs and a lot of people I know have a blog of one sort or another. But then it comes to customising your blog, how do you make it stand apart from the others and how so you make your blog look better than just the bog standard.

The answer is quite simply blogger templates… Continue Reading»

From Geekywood

Today Adobe announced the upcoming launch of Photoshop CS4, and more importantly a major new landmark feature which is set to revolutionise the graphic designer world.

Unlike all previous versions of Photoshop CS4 is capable of utilizing your graphic card’s power, rapidly speeding up the speed at which Photoshop can zoom, manage and manipulate high end graphics on your PC.

This move is set to be a large blow to Apple users who were previously one of the few people able to access GPU compatible graphics design packages, at the cost of limited… Continue Reading»

I have just seen the review of the latest long life fuel cell for laptops. THis protootype is designed for military use, but carries a stunning 14 hour battery life at surprisingly little cost!

Now I don’t know about you, but 2 years after I bought my laptop the battery life skimmed itself down to around half an hour, it slowed itself down and the heat from the battery was immense.

The new 14 hour Methanol Fuel Cell battery only gives out 25 watts of power, but then you… Continue Reading»

I have been upgrading my PHPBB 3.0 onto a few sites now and haev been using various themes for them all. For those that dont know PHPBB3 is the latest offering from from PHPBB one of the worlds most used forum management systems.

PHPBB3 is free to use and very customisable, which is why choosing your PHPBB3 theme is so difficult. There are thousands of PHPBB3 themes out there, some free and some that cost, so I decided to choose my favorite PHPBB3 Themes and put them here just to make things a little bit easier for my readers … Continue Reading»

Windows Live Writer is a recent offering from Microsoft to challenge Bloggers dominance. While Windows Live Writer is fairly decent by itself what really makes live writer stand out is its ability to use Plugins. Plug ins are basically additions to a program that increase its functionality, and it is the plug-ins that make windows live writer unique and powerful in the blogging world.

Of course once you have found out that windows live writer plugins exist you have to decide which ones to have, well these… Continue Reading»