Archive for May, 2010

A bookmark sync battle

Posted by Gavin Lewis in Internet, iOS on May 5, 2010

I have a very short attention span when it comes to browsers – my Windows PC has Safari, Chrome, Firefox and the obligatory Internet Explorer (it’s Vista, I can’t uninstall it…can I?) and my Mac has Safari, Chrome and Firefox and finally, Chrome & Firefox in Linux. Now, I like to have my bookmarks synchronised across all of my browsers. I’m currently torn between Chrome and Safari but it seems the various sync functions on offer are mutually exclusive.

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alternativeto.net

Posted by Gavin Lewis in iOS, Kubuntu, Mac OSX, Ubuntu, Windows on May 3, 2010

It’s pretty fair to say I’m not your biggest fan of proprietary software, or even paid-for software. I often find that, as I mentioned in my Photoshop Elements 8 post a lot of paid-for software seems to take up a lot of space and use a lot of RAM for no apparent reason. If you are like me, you may wish to take a look at alternativeto.net

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Grand Theft Auto 4 & Episodes from Liberty City

Posted by Gavin Lewis in Games, Windows on May 2, 2010

I thought it was about time I said something about GTA4,  but I wanted to wait until I’d played the episodes as well.  I’ve finished GTA4 and the Lost & The Damned, so now I just have the Ballad of Gay Tony to go before I’ve got the full picture…

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