My fellow Brits – if you wish to vote in the forthcoming general election, today is the last day that you can register.
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April 19, 2010
by Neil T
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
April 16, 2010
by Neil T
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The Caldervale Line
This is an entry about the Caldervale Line, which takes trains from my home town of York, through to Bradford where I currently reside, and onto Manchester and Blackpool, where Christine lives. As you can imagine, I use this railway line a lot.
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April 15, 2010
by Neil T
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Sometimes
Sometimes I get half-way through writing a blog entry, and then realise that what I’m saying is utter rubbish, or a largely unintelligible rambling of disconnected thoughts. Rather than post a poor-quality, unarticulated entry, I’d rather just scrap it.
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April 14, 2010
by Neil T
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App of the Week: Irfanview
IrfanView is probably one of the most versatile image preview applications there is. But to call it an image preview application is only scratching the surface of what this little program does.
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April 13, 2010
by Neil T
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ScummVM 1.1.0
I first mentioned ScummVM on this blog 6 years ago, back when it could only really play LucasArts games and not a lot else. Thankfully a lot has happened in those 6 years and the range of games supported has increased hugely.
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April 9, 2010
by Neil T
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Changing the theme
I’ve had the plain red default MT4 theme for a couple of years now. So I’ve switched to the light blue variant of it. What do you think?
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April 8, 2010
by Neil T
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Plugging out
In October last year I uninstalled RealPlayer from my computer. Almost exactly 6 months on and I’ve not encountered any audio or video which refused to play as a result.
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April 7, 2010
by Neil T
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App of the Week: The Unarchiver
Once upon a time, Windows users all used Zip files, Mac users used StuffIt files and Unix users used GZip files. But compression technology has moved on since then, and we now have BZip2, 7-Zip, RAR and various other file formats spanning multiple platforms and operating systems.
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April 6, 2010
by Neil T
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#GE2010
And so it has begun. What follows will be 30 days of campaigning, arguing, finger-pointing and sound-biting by various politicians all after one thing – your vote.
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April 5, 2010
by Neil T
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Why Bradford is rubbish for cycling
In the news this morning, it was announced that Bristol was the best cycling city in the UK – and Bradford the worst. Unfortunately, this is hardly surprising.
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