Category Archives: Techno Joy

Share the Internet, with your Internet enabled mobile.

Like myself, I am sure many people out there have a Windows Mobile enabled phone, and a mobile Internet tariff package to suit.

Well you may find you want to share the Internet connection with your PC, or NetBook. You can of course use USB or BlueTooth, but what if you have issues say if your using Linux, or you want to share the connection with multiple people.

It is possible, and I have been using this software for over a year on my HTC TyTnII. This excellent software is WMWifi Router.

Visit their website to learn more, and download yourself a copy.

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Geektastic TV – The IT Crowd

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Its been around since 2006, and it might not be to everyones taste, but The IT Crowd it funny and very often cringeworthy if you work in the magical world of IT. Overtime I have also found the theme music kinda catchy, so if different ringtones are your thing, I have uploaded the title music mp3 for you to download. IT Crowd Theme Tune

What ever you do, dont type Google into Google….
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Extract from Wikipedia
The IT Crowd
is set in the offices of Reynholm Industries, a fictitious British corporation in central London. It focuses on the shenanigans of the three-strong IT support team located in a dingy, untidy and unkempt basement — a stark contrast to the shining modern architecture and stunning London views enjoyed by the rest of the organisation. The obscurity surrounding what the company does serves as a running gag throughout the series — all that is known is that the company bought and sold ITV and once made part-year profits of “eighteen hundred billion billion”. The team consists of what Douglas Reynholm describes as “a dynamic go-getter (Jen), a genius (Moss) and a man from Ireland (Roy)”.

Moss and Roy, the two technicians, are portrayed as socially inept geeks or, in Denholm Reynholm’s words, “standard nerds”. Despite the company’s dependence on their services, they are despised, ignored, and considered losers by the rest of the staff. Roy’s exasperation is reflected in his support techniques of ignoring the phone in the hope it will stop ringing, and using reel-to-reel tape recordings of stock IT suggestions (“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” and “Are you sure it’s plugged in?”). Moss’s wide and intricate knowledge of all things technical is reflected in his extremely accurate yet utterly indecipherable suggestions, while demonstrating a complete inability to deal with practical problems like extinguishing fires and removing spiders.

Jen, the newest member of the team, is hopelessly non-technical, despite claiming on her CV that she has “a lot of experience with computers”. As Denholm, the company boss, is equally tech-illiterate, he’s convinced by Jen’s interview bluffing and appoints her head of the IT department. Her official title is “relationship manager”, yet her attempts at bridging the gulf between the technicians and the business generally have the opposite effect, landing Jen in situations just as ludicrous as those of her team-mates.

Google Latitude… Spy Tech for the masses

I am sure many of you will have heard of Googles latest maps feature, Latitude.
Basically it utilises the Google maps for mobile devices, and the fact that many of these feature in built GPS units.
So now you can keep track of your friends and family, or if your abit of a numpty leave it activated so people can see you, not where you said you would be 🙂

Seriously though, there is alot of hype going on about the security risks with this new feature, however you need to give permission to allow someone to view your status, and also set the mobile device to show the status.

So if your using this, then make sure you disable your visable status when you dont want to be spied on.

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