Use Vista to check how powerful your computer is

I still believe that XP is the best Windows operating system however my main laptop has Vista and my new HP 2133 laptop has vista installed too. Whilst my main laptop (Asus G1S) has a 2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, my new portable laptop has a miserable 1.6GHz Via …

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I finally got my new laptop for travelling

2 days ago I finally got my hands on a HP 2133. I’ve been using it for a few days now and it’s exactly what I wanted. It’s really portable and the build quality is fantastic. Unfortunately, video playback is quite poor and it can be sluggish at times under …

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Peep Show just keeps getting better

I decided to have a quiet Friday night last night and didn’t go out. Instead, my friend came round and we spent most of the night playing Grand Theft Auto 4 on the PS3. As I predicted at the start of the week, it’s drained a lot of my time! …

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Think I’m going to get the HP 2133 Mininote

4 days ago I asked what laptop I should get for travelling. When I wrote the post I had a few laptops in mind however my mind is now pretty much set on the HP 2133 Mini Note. The basic model has a 1.2Ghz Via C7 processor, 120 GB 5400 …

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Joel Comm says sorry for stealing your money

UPDATE: 6th April 2018 It is 10 years since this article was published. I recently spoke to Joel Comm about this issue. Joel explained that the president of his company (at the time) suggested what people were calling a “forced continuity” payment model and Joel agreed to it. He noted …

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What laptop should I get for travelling?

I noticed that I hadn’t posted in close to a week so I thought I would clarify my posting frequency just incase someone thought I had decided to stop posting here. I just want to remind new readers and subscribers that posts on this blog may be irregular. I squeeze …

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Twit vs Twat

A week ago , popular blogger and online market Jim Kukral launching a marketing experiment called TwitterMeThis. Basically, TwitterMeThis is an experiment by Jim to see how the Twitter media can be used. He has asked people to follow the TwitterMeThis account at Twitter and periodically he asks his followers …

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Is Meet the Spartans the worst film ever made?

I had the misfortune of watching Meet the Spartans the other day. Having enjoyed 300 (the film it spoofs) and the Scary Movies (from the same director) I thought it would at least be watchable. I was sorely wrong. Meet the Spartans has to be one of the worst films …

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Design, Design, Design

If you have read this blog before then you will quickly realise that I changed the blog’s theme last night. I liked the last theme but it was kinda basic and I wanted to present a more professional image for myself and the blog. The new BloggingTips design will be …

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