Category Archive: Software

Feb
23

Braid on XBLA now only 800 MSPoints!

It seems like for a limited period only, the fantastic Braid on XBLA, a game that I’ve been avoiding paying fullprice of 1200 MSPoints for, will be discounted by 33% to 800 MSPoints! Rocking! It seems this is an Exclusive Gold-Only deal, and forms part of a new “Deal of the Week” feature on XBox …

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Jul
19

Skitch alternative, and for Windows too!

Ever since I no longer have a Mac at work, I’ve been seriously missing several functions that certain apps gave me on OSX. Skitch is one of those apps that gave me superior screenshot ability, to be able to take a partial screenshot, annotate right then and there with text and arrows, and then just …

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Apr
20

AVGFree popup “spam”

AVGFree Internet Suite Popup

Since starting the new job and getting an HP 6710b laptop with Vista pre-installed, the first thing after having Vista properly configured, was shrinking that partition right down and installing Ubuntu 8.04 Beta. But every so now and again I boot into Vista to do something. And not liking the idea of being forced to …

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