Nintendo 3DS Hands On In Tokyo

On March 25th Nintendo will release it's new handheld gaming console, the next generation DS, now in 3D. So is it as good as they want us to believe? Should we trade in our older boring two-dimensional DS's and upgrade to 3D goodness?

In January I was walking around Akihabara's biggest digital tech store and I bumped into the 3DS show stand. Literally bumped into, I was looking the other way at a shiny red Wii (I sold my Wii to help buy a one way plane ticket, worth it but I still miss it...) and I walked into the back of the display. That was how much Nintendo needed to advertise their new console in Japan, everyone knows about it. Walking around the other side I saw there wasn't much of a queue. Ah. Lunchtime. Everyone has lunch at the same time here. So I decided to join the mini-queue and have a little play.

Copying Text From Word Into Blogger

Most times when preparing a post for blogger you will first write it in Word and want to transfer the text into Blogger using copy and paste. This can present a problem as a straight copy and paste will result in Word’s markup language being copied with it, bypassing any font, size and format settings you have set in Blogger. This is an easy problem to solve, simply copy the text as you would normally, but instead of pasting into the “Compose” tab, click on the “Edit HTML” tab and past into there. Then feel free to click back into “Compose” to do any further editing or to add images. It really is that simple! Happy Blogging!

A Short Essay On Piracy

From the time I got my first tape recorder I remember pirating songs. But it wasn’t called piracy back then. At least not in the mainstream world, and the term certainly wasn’t thrown around the news as it is today. Yet the question still remains as to what the real difference is between taping a song off the radio and downloading a torrent.

Logitech G5 Budget Mouse Mod

A bit of background to start:

One day while bored at uni one of my friends lent me his copy of Custom PC. This is where my problems began. Within a month I had spent my full terms student loan on a new computer. It was beautiful, expensive, and didn’t work. Having never actually seen the inside of a computer before, I didn’t realize that you needed a graphics card and a motherboard. Woops. So out I went to get the latest and greatest graphics card, an ATI Radeon X800. Far Cry looked awesome! Still couldn’t really play it though. My keyboard was a crappy generic PC World home brand. It was time to introduce myself to the world of peripherals.

The funny thing about having no money is that you are more willing to spend it, so out I go and come back home with a Logitech G15. Ooh, light up keys and an LCD! I got instantly better at jumping around like a lunatic. Still couldn’t actually shoot anything. OK, time to get a mouse. Having decided that I like Logitech, and being slightly OCD sometimes so everything must match, I got a G5. Love at first sight. And I’ve been using the same mouse ever since. I’ve always had an eye out for a replacement but nothing seems to suit me better!

Stock G5 image. Got too excited and forgot to take a pic of mine first.