Vexentricity

Today I don’t understand my digital life

Kathie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:32:03 +0000

Stop the digital world I think I wanna get off ... Why am I posting this? What's it all about? Facebook? Twitter? Second Life? Blogging? Very suddenly today I just don't get it anymore... I'm writing as always sitting in my office. I have a dozen applications open, some work, some not, some social, some not. [...]

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Vista & Windows 7 thoughts: Breadcrumbs

Kathie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:07 +0000

I thought I'd write a little bit about Windows 7 today. I've been using it for about a month now primarily because my Samsung Netbook (which came with XP on it) won't run Vista but it will run Windows 7. For me moving onto beta software is a rather unusual step - sure [...]

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Using Wacom Cintiq & Intuos

Kathie — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:57:05 +0000

I love my Wacom Cintiq as I loved my Intuos 3 tablet before it. When I first got the Cintiq I read a lot of comments from people who loved their new Cintiq so much they were immediately consigning their Intuos to eBay or FreeCycle (or - heaven forfend! - the trash), and this really [...]

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Wacom Cintiq with dual monitors

Kathie — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:22:34 +0000

A couple of days ago I was asked by Gordon Robb about my Cintiq post the following question "...how does the cintiq connect if you already have two monitors. I have this setup, but my graphics card only has two outputs, so where would the cintiqu go? This is the only thing stopping me buying [...]

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Making the most of my memory - x64

Kathie — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:56:03 +0000

A few months back Adrian put a small box on my desk. Inside was 8 gigs of RAM and a message: "It's time." Time to go to Vista 64 bit. I resisted. The little box sat on my desk, staring at me for weeks. I was scared. I was absolutely convinced [...]

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Wacom Cintiq

Kathie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:01:29 +0000

This is the first post in my Wacom Cintiq 12WX experience. First off, I've had it now for three weeks and I'm truly in love with it. I must admit that while I had wanted to get my hands on one of these for a long time, I could not see past the logistical [...]

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Crysis “Kicked from Server”

Kathie — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:39:14 +0000

Since applying the latest 1.2 Crysis version I've been continually getting "kicked from server" messages. Running a dedicated server on a network game (of which I'm the network admin!) this is rather annoying. I've found loads of posts on various forums about this happening to other people playing online games but haven't found any [...]

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Gadget Girl Dilemma

Kathie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:41:27 +0000

I weighed my handbag the other day. It weighed 8 lbs! Apart from the 'normal' weight of keys, glasses, lipstick and hairbrushes, my bag also contained all my essential kit for the digital life of a writer/journalist/techie/web developer on the road: Camera: Coolpix L2 GPS: Garmin nivi 300 MP3:Apple iPod Touch 16GB MP3: Creative Zen Touch 20GB Phone: Motorola Razr 3i PDA: [...]

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Don’t look a gift horse in the Mac…

Kathie — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:07:15 +0000

I just read Adrian’s blog on ZDNet and to my surprise he’s talking about HIS new Mac Mini – which is kinda weird because he bought it as an anniversary gift for ME yesterday. Hmmmm… it’s bit like when Homer Simpson bought Marge a gift of a new bowling ball (complete with the name Homer on it). Well [...]

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Vista Blues - sluggish PC!

Kathie — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:30:56 +0000

My PC is running so sloooowly it’s like trying to work in a vat of treacle – although not so tasty! ;-) Adrian and I both ran process explorer and compared results. For some reason pretty much every running process that we have in common is taking 10–20MB extra memory on my Vista PC than his. [...]

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