Auto Green – Sleep or power down your PC from a Bluetooth device. Since Bluetooth has a range of about 25mm it seems like it would be easier to just walk over to the PC and turn it off, rather than enabling Bluetooth, trying to get in range, pairing, loading the app…

Cloud OC – Tweak and overclock your PC from any internet connected device. What… The… Fuck… So I can remotely crash my PC?

Smart DualBIOS – The dual BIOS idea is a good one, but this utility adds a pointless feature where you can now store very small amounts of data in it. Things like passwords and contact details, in case your hard drive dies. Just in case you are tempted to actually use it there is no way to import/export this data from/to other apps, so you have to copy/paste it all manually.

Q-Share – Duplicates Windows file sharing functionality, only with a less usable interface and less compatibility. Thanks Gigabyte.

No ATA password support in the BIOS though. Sigh…

Novatech isn’t particularly cheap either.

Google tries to make suggestions based on what it has scanned from web pages, but it seems that they didn’t filter out common errors… Google, U R TEH DUMB LOL

Still, Google docs is excellent. Now you can upload any filetype I have been backing up my photo raws there. Picasaweb only accepts JPEGs.

Headline: ‘Full blown crisis’

Quote: “The good news is, they are not allowing it to become a full-blown crisis,”

The headline implies the exact opposite of the quote. FFS. It doesn’t seem to say who wrote the article but stuff like this should never get past editors.

EDIT: After I complained it looks like the BBC have fixed the headline. Unfortunately I can’t find an archived copy of the page in its original form. Google’s cached copy has been updated but there is a copy/pasted version on the XFM website. Bottom of the 5th paragraph. In future I will take screenshots.

To be fair to the BBC they do at least do corrections when people complain.

EDIT: Found an original copy with the bad headline in it: http://news.myjoyonline.com/business/201106/68468.asp

I just hope it was some kids who will get bored soon. The thought that an adult would intentionally do something like that is too disturbing to contemplate for long.

I clicked “next” and IE8 came up with a window asking me to choose my settings. I closed it and selected Firefox from the available options. Internet Explorer opened and downloaded Firefox. I installed it and the browser ballot window was still there. I closed the ballot window and rebooted.

The ballot came up again, but this time even worse:

This thing is horribly broken. Even when you have installed another browser it tries to force you back to IE. It didn’t delete the IE icon off the desktop or Quick Launch either.

A nice shade of red I thought. Unfortunately, Vistaprint can’t print red:

I included a few red and different colour items in the photo for comparison. I was a bit surprised at this as I had followed all the suggestions on the Vistaprint web site, and indeed the site itself seemed to render red correctly:

I contacted them and they kindly offered to try again. I sent them a few samples of the first lot so they could see the problem. The second batch turned up, and it was a slightly darker brown that the first. I contacted them again, and got this interesting response:

We currently do not have persons in place to check orders before they are printed nor shipped.

So they just press print and hope everything turns out okay.

They suggested I try converting the colour to CMYK, so I did. Sent them another proof, which again looked perfect on the web site preview. Third lot of cards turned up and sure enough they are still just as brown.

FFS Vistaprint, is it that hard to print red? Every cheap inkjet can do it, so why can’t you? How can your prints be so far from what is shown on screen? I can understand not being able to match colour to a professional level but we are talking completely different parts of the spectrum here.

FAIL.

Stupidity, American-centric ideas and the ability of people with too much time on their hands to enforce their personal preferences has not only driven a lot of good editors away, but it has also done a lot of damage to the content too.

If you compare the Japanese version to the English one the contrasting work together/I’m always right attitudes, as well as numerous other flaws, become obvious. I’m not going to waste my time any more.

Well, except perhaps on keeping the PC World article full of my own opinions. I never said I wasn’t as bad as the rest of them.

Anyway…

No. There are millions of pictures of non-black people being ridiculed (i.e. George Bush, Tony Blair, Bunker Brown, Nick Griffin, Wayne Rooney etc, etc), should these be removed as well? This has only come about because the 1st lady is black, if she’d been white, this would not have made the news.

Bob Todd

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It worries me greatly that Bob does not appear to understand what racism actually is. The fact that 266 other morons apparently don’t either, and that said morons pushed this comment to the top of the pile, makes me despair.

Apparently this sort of thing is quite common. I hear people saying things like “I’m not a racist, but…” or “it’s just a laugh, they laugh along as well and make jokes about white people too.” As someone who has been a victim of racism I can assure you, dear reader, that these people are fucktards.

The picture of Mrs. Obama altered to look like an ape is racist because historically comparing black people to apes and implying that they are less highly evolved, less intelligent and less human than white people has been used by racists. Ridiculing people because of their actions or beliefs is fine, ridiculing them simply because of the colour of their skin (which they cannot do anything about) is racist. Calling someone a “paki” is racist because it is a term of abuse based on racial background, where as calling someone a “brit” is simply shorthand and not an insult. How people cannot understand this rather simple distinction is beyond me.

There has been criticism of attempts to educate kids about this kind of thing, calling it liberal leftist namby-pamby PC brigade nonsense, but clearly there is a very real need for it.