For a long time now I have been slowly drawn into the field of Digital Photography and more recently Digital Video. I don”t have any great artistic leaning, or for that matter skill but I do like the idea of capturing memories. It wasn”t until I returned from India that I realised that looking at [...]

Back in May 2009 Don Mcallister who runs and hosts ScreenCastsOnline did an episode on using the New Mac Min as a Media server. Now I have owned a Mac Mini (G5) for a while and have been using it as a basic media server, and when I say basic, I mean I have Snow [...]

This week has been the usual mix of busy but has been largely uneventful. It has been bitterly cold and standing on the train platform each morning I couldn”t help but think it”s about time I started looking at holidays. What I have done this week however is start sorting out some of those little [...]

Last week ended pretty much as it had begun, cold, wet, and very busy, but at least there wasn’t any snow. Friday arrived and I was quite looking forward to getting home and opening a few cold beers and enjoying a long lay in Saturday morning, but you what they say about the best laid [...]

I received an email today from Drobo Support, and what was kind of scary was that the engineer had found my blog and read what i had done over the weekend. At the same time it was also kind of reassuring to know that I was dealing with someone that was tech savvy and Internet [...]

Well somewhat of a different start to the holiday season this year when I decided last minute to join a bunch of online friends in Liverpool for what is affectionally known as a TweetUp. I have been chatting to most of these people for a while now and when the chance came up to meet [...]