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Getting Ubuntu working on the Acer Aspire S3 (Updated: 17June2013)

The Acer Aspire S3 is a prety cheap Gen 1 Ultrabook, sporting an i5 processor, a 500Gb Hard Disk, 20Gb SSD and 4Gb of Ram, it comes with Windows 8 … Continue reading

June 15, 2013 · 4 Comments

Getting a bit more out of crouton on a Chromebook

I recently wrote a post about using a cloud based VPS for doing development work on, it was pointed out to me in a Google+ conversation that this could be … Continue reading

May 5, 2013 · Leave a comment

Windows Phone, the Apps, the Phone..

I’ve had my Nokia Lumia 920 since November 2012 and I chose the phone because i was fedup with just how staid and old Android was feeling, and an iPhone … Continue reading

May 4, 2013 · 2 Comments

If your going to disrupt the Status Quo, you’ve got to think different..

Mark Shuttleworth has the potential of being this Generations Steve Jobs and he is planning on doing to Ubuntu what Jobs did for Apple. He seems to be taking that … Continue reading

May 4, 2013 · Leave a comment

Ubuntu 13.04 raring to go on Acer C7 Chromebook

With Ubuntu’s new release out this week, i wanted to share with you how to get this working in a chroot environment alongside ChromeOS on the Acer C7. I have … Continue reading

April 28, 2013 · 43 Comments

Why finding a job in the UK is so hard…

In the UK like many other countries around the world, the job market is not great, in fact its terrible, there are jobs out there however finding them is harder … Continue reading

April 1, 2013 · Leave a comment

ChromeOS Tip: Setting the sleep time

While ChromeOS is a great OS and i’m loving all of it, I detest on any system when Developers make decisions on my behalf, and the ChromeOS Dev’s have decided that I … Continue reading

March 17, 2013 · Leave a comment

Dual-Booting your Chromebook

Dual-booting is when a computer has two Operating Systems (for example, Mac OS and Windows 7). This is possible on a Chromebook although currently only dual-bootingUbuntu Linux is advisable using the … Continue reading

February 23, 2013 · Leave a comment

The Nokia Lumia 920 a month in

A month in with the Nokia Lumia 920 and it is worth doing an update of my post just after I got the phone.

December 23, 2012 · Leave a comment

While i’m not overly enamoured by Windows 8 i’m starting to get it.

I think it’s enough to say here that i’m not a huge fan of the desktop version of Windows 8, the phone version works, works well and makes understandable decisions. … Continue reading

December 2, 2012 · Leave a comment