Next up, the former worlds highest skydive of 31 KILOMETERS done in 1960, thats in space (and therefore technically makes Joe Kittinger the first man in space)! He reached around 600mph due to the lack of atmosphere, taking 3 hours to reach this altitude in a helium balloon. Its only been attempted once since by an ex SAS soldier turned stunt man and he only went 5000 feet higher with modern technology in 2007!
In case you didnt know or havent seen it yet, Pepe of Real Madrid lost his temper when a player dived looking for a penalty, his resulting reaction has left him with a massive 10 match ban, check out just how stupid this man is…
Yes its back! You many have already heard they are filming a new six-part series coming in the autum .
Have you noticed they seem to be bringing all the old comedies back. Its the BBC’s own stupid fault. They decided to drop shooting stars, red dwarf and other great shows choosing other badly written sitcoms to replace the comedy. My Family is a good example with Bafta winning amazingly good actor Robert Lindsay running around like an idiot. OK My Family and other sitcoms are bearable at the start but that’s not what I expect from the BBC. I want to be laughing my ass off and Vic and Bob are just the ticket.
With the success of the Christmas specials they have decided to give a new series the go ahead. Jack Dee will be a new team captain and seems to suit the show perfectly. Ulrikakaka is the other team captain. It would not be the same without baby George Dawes keeping the scores so I am happy to see Matt Lucas join them.
Now all they need to do is a new series of Red Dwarf for Dave (which is a joint venture with UKTV and the BBC) and good quality comedy is back on the TV. A bit older and maybe a bit senile but still quality!
Connect360 is a fab little app that will allow you to stream your music, movies and pictures from your Mac to your Xbox360. The streaming of movies from the computer to the Xbox is smooth with hardly any buffering and no stuttering or jumping. There are some drawbacks, all the media has to live in the default Music, Movie and Pictures folders, the UI on the Xbox compared to using Microsoft Media Center is limited with no album art or rating etc. Due to the wonder that is DRM you will also not be able to play anything brought from the iTunes store and movies may have to be converted into the right codec to play.
However, apart from those drawbacks it does a very good job of getting your media onto your TV for a bargain price of $20 from Nullriver.
If you are looking for a way to remove the 3D dock that comes with Leopard then all you need are a few carefully typed Terminal commands.
First open terminal and enter this command:
1) This Week In Tech – This is great fun with leo and his guests. If you dont listen to this then you cannot call yourself a proper geek. It keeps you up to date with technology and most of all tells the truth.
2) Adam and Joe Show - Great geeky school boy humor a very funny podcast from life long friends. They make funny songs on garage bands and laugh about the media, peoples habits and technology and the world in general.
3) Dwarfcast – Red dwarf fans review episodes and get drunk on cider. This is a very odd podcast but so much fun any geek should feel at home. They have a very relaxed style but they sure know what they are talking about.
4) Amiga Round Table – Essential listening for any amiga fan or any retro geek. With great guest and chat this is like This Week In Tech for amiga.
Wp-forum is a great plug in for wordpress that intergrates a forum into wordpress and use a universal account. Its very good but I came across some issues in the installation.
If you are getting database errors when installing or after installation deactive the plug in and do the following:
Database fix:
I found the solution on a forum from a guy called camdagr8
On some hosting accounts you’re not a full admin of the db.
so on line: 1009 of wp.class.php when it checks for the db user level it returns if it’s < 8
Commented out lines ( basically delete the lines and add // ):
1009, 1010, and 1108
Skinning:
Make sure first of all you have copied the css from the wp-forum to your style sheet or linked it. Then just edit the css colors to match your scheme. Then go into wp-forum/skins and select images. If you want to change the new post image then on.gif and off.gif controls them. Play around replace images and soon you will have a custom skin.
These guys are awesome, Kez has actually booked them to play at Bangor University’s summer ball this year, they’ll be playing to over 5000 people! Im going!!
If you would like to include blank spaces on your dock to organise it in Leopard, heres how:
1. Open terminal and type in the following code: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'
2. Next you need to restart the dock by typing: killall Dock
You will now notice that next to the terminal icon on the dock there should be a blank space that you are able to move around at will, want another space? Repeat the above steps and you may have as many as you like!
If you would like the space to appear on the right side of your dock (on the side with your Trash) then replace the code from step 1 with the following: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'
Im going!!