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Computer for Sale!
June 30th, 2009Hi, excuse the mercenary nature of this post but we need to sell off a few things, the first of which is a medium spec PC..
We can’t really send it anywhere cos it would cost a fortune, but we can deliver to South Birmingham, I should imagine! Here are the details:
Refurbished Base Unit with new Mouse & Keyboard.
Specs:
- Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0 GHz
- RAM: 1.75GB
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X 128MB
- Hard Drive: 80GB
- DVD Drive: DVD+/-RW Dual Layer 16x speed
- CD Drive: CD-RW 52x speed
Installed Software:
- Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office 2007 – Word, Excel, Publisher, Powerpoint, Outlook & more
- AVG Anti Virus – virus protection
- Windows Defender – spyware protection
- Google Picasa – organise, edit & share photos
- Mozilla Firefox – web browser
- ImgBurn – CD/DVD burning
- Adobe Reader 9 – PDF file viewer
- VLC Media Player & Codec Pack
- GIMP – Photoshop Clone (Image manipluation)
- 7-Zip – open ZIP & RAR files
£150
This price does not include a monitor or speakers, though we can get these items for you at cost for good prices: (17” Flatscreen Monitor £70, Stereo Speakers £10 + £3 postage).
If you want Wi-fi (wireless networking) capability, we will install a Wi-fi PCI card at cost (current price online is £9 + £3 postage). We will also install an additional hard drive for you at cost price if you wish (approx £60 for 500GB).
Please email me if you are interested.
7 Useful iPhone Photography Apps
June 23rd, 2009With the arrival of the iPhone 3GS, and my jealousy of the improved camera & processing power, I have taken a day or so to try out several new photography apps on my iPhone 3G – I have come to the conclusion that I can’t afford to get one until my current contract is eligible for upgrading in December, so I may as well make the best of what I’ve got! So here is a review of the new apps I’ve tried, along with some stalwart favourites I already use regularly.
I will be reviewing 7 apps – and they are all apps that I would recommend to anyone who takes a lot of photos with their iPhone, as I do. The apps I am reviewing are: AutoStitch, Photogene, NightCamera, Mobile Fotos, Flickit, ShakeItPhoto, and HP iPrint.
I already have a fairly good point and click camera – the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T77 which was a wedding present to James & myself. However, I don’t always have this with me, and if I do it is no doubt sitting at the bottom of my bag. More often than not, I will find myself pulling out my iPhone from my pocket to take the quick snaps of everyday life – the blink & you’ll miss it ‘kodak moments’. As a result, about half of my photos are probably taken with my iPhone.
Warning! This post is very image heavy. Read the rest of this entry »
Cake!!
June 22nd, 2009I am very proud of myself today because I made a coffee cake all by myself, and it looks great (even if I do say so myself!).
In the past, I have had a slight problem with cakes… The never seemed to rise, at all. So I was half dreading the outcome of my experiment this weekend, after my new cake tins arrived on Friday. Imagine my joy when I pulled the tins out of the oven and the cake looked like cake instead of there being a large biscuit type object lying in each tin. Woohoo! I’m 24 next month, and I finally baked a succesful cake!!
Oh, and I decorated it with sugar flowers and silver balls cos I don’t like walnuts!! I’m so excited to get The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook and bake more treats, I have a feeling I will be unwrapping it in about a months time!
