Squeeze Box

A New Website – Mike’s MixTapes

I’ve been testing out some new Drupal modules for upcoming websites and to make the process more tolerable I’ve produced a working website. I’ve got loads of playlists on my computer grouped by random links so I figured why not keep them online for posterity and for others to enjoy. The site is dead simple, it [...]

SpeakerShare – A Simple Cross-Platform Alternative to AirFoil

If you ever need to share the sound output of one computer to others on your LAN, look no further than SpeakerShare. Getting it running is really easy but a little counter intuitive, this guide should help you out. Before you start make sure you have Bonjour from Apple installed (it comes with itunes or [...]

My Favourite Albums – 2009

In an effort to preserve a memory of what music I love I’ve put together this list of the albums I’ve played to death this year. They aren’t in order of preference but I’ve grouped them by new albums this year and those I discovered this year. All the links are to youtube. 2009 Owl City – Ocean [...]

Fountains Of Wayne – Hackensack

Brilliant live version of a great song.

Stream Soundcard Output With VLC (Free Airfoil Alternative)

VLC is a great simple program that allows you to play and stream pretty much anything. On this occasion I wanted to stream itunes through to my netbook that plays in the kitchen so I can play music controlled by the itunes remote on the ipod touch from my main office library. The only application that [...]

Gmail as default e-mail client for Chrome

Mailto: links have been driving me mad since I switched to Chrome as whenever I click them it wants to bring up outlook that isn’t configured. What I wanted was the links to load a new message window in gmail. Thankfully ChromeMailer is just the application I needed. It’s very no frills as all it does [...]

Peter Davies – A New Breed Of Politician?

Peter Davies, the newly elected mayor of Doncaster, has been making the news recently with his rather radical agenda. The top and bottom of it is, he’s not afraid of the PC brigade and hates waste. Today I stumbled across a radio interview of Mr. Davies speaking to a presenter on BBC Sheffield and I [...]

Peer Guardian and Windows Vista Bugs

I’ve been using the excellent Peer Guardian program that blocks any intrusive organisations from contacting your computer in any way. These organisations include advertisers and organisations that try to stop peer to peer (P2P) file sharing. The only problem with it is that on Vista it doesn’t work most of the time! However, there is [...]

On BBC Online and Commercial Competition

I’ve been thinking a lot about the comments made by James Murdoch about the BBC being state sponsored and therefore unfair competition for private news organisations. He has a reasonable point, after all, how can they realistically charge for news online when the BBC provides almost the exact same thing free at the point of [...]

iDownload – BBC iPlayer Downloader to iPod

I’ve just discovered a great program that lets you download all content from the BBC iPlayer TV and Radio sections for your iPod. iDownload uses a well know exploit to download the programmes in .mp3 or .mov format so you can watch them whenever or wherever you want. I’m sure the BBC will close the [...]