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Free painting software

Admin | Wednesday 7 February 2007

I’ve been looking at some free painting programs. In particular I wanted something that had realistic natural-painting tools (oil, watercolour, crayon, pencil, airbrush, pastels) to use with my graphics tablet.

Free Download Manager

Admin | Tuesday 22 August 2006

I’m using Free Download Manager with RSS Bandit. Life is good. It’s the most painless method I’ve found for grabbing file enclosures from my favourite vlogs… RSS Bandit presents the enclosure link nice and clearly. Just right-click > copy link location (shortcut), Free Download Manager pops up, hit OK and the file is saved in … Free Download Manager

Great RSS feed reader

Admin | Monday 14 August 2006

For quite a while I’ve been looking around for a good feed reader. I was using the one that is built into Opera, but the slow-down while it updated the feeds every so often bugged me when I was busy looking at web pages at the same time. Sadly this is just one of the … Great RSS feed reader

Fireworks on the top of Beetham Tower, but does Manchester really need more city centre apartments for the rich? (VIDEO)

Admin | Wednesday 26 April 2006

At 9.15pm tonight fireworks erupted from the top of Beetham Tower in Manchester. A topping out ceremony was taking place, marking the completion of the highest point. The Tower stands 171m (561ft) and 47 storeys tall, making it the highest residential development in Europe. Read more in my blog entry (includes a photo):

Windows XP — this is progress?

Admin | Thursday 6 April 2006

A quick video (this is Flash video so you’ll need to visit the site).

About Bill Gates, the $100 laptop and Windows XP.

It’s day four of Videobloggingweek2006.

Video formats on my site

Admin | Tuesday 21 February 2006

In the world of online video, things change almost weekly. Just when it seems I’ve found the ideal format for the videos on my site, along comes something better and it’s ‘all change’ again.

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