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Pair of BIG speakers for sale, to make so space in my hall. This is there stats.
Power 300w peak, 150w RMS
15″ premium woofer
Dual driver high frequency tweeter
Impedance 8 ohms
Response 65Hz – 18 kHz
Dispersion 60 h x 40 v
SPL: 98 db 1W/1M
2 x 1/4″ Jacks
Convenient carrying handle
Metal stand adapter
Size in mm 640 H x 440 [...]
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I’m having a clear out of some of my old music stuff so… Is there about out there that would like to buy a GEM s2 Turbo Synth with a flight case? The thing is built like a tank and weights a ton so delivery outside of the UK maybe a problem, ideally I’d [...]
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Here’s a link to my family tree which will be useful if you happen to be a distant relative searching the ‘net for family members.
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I’m currently trying to do some revision for my upcoming Open University exam M257 “Putting Java to Work.” To avoid doing this in a doing it sort of way I started making an AtoZ glossary from the various PDF’s to aid my revision attempts. Problem is that half way through completing this I discovered I was [...]
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This is my late 2006 model 17″ iMac with at the time of writing is two and a half years old.
As you can see a vertical pink line has appeared top to bottom on my screen and I can’t get rid of it. After realising that it wasn’t going away my first thought that [...]
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Today I fixed a friends computer that was suddenly displaying the message “CPU is unworkable or has been changed” at boot time and performing very slowly. After running one of my diagnostic tools I found that the CPU, an AMD athon 2800+ was running at a speed of 1.25Ghz. The processor should normally run at [...]
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There are a lot of Chris Fords in the world that aren’t me. Here’s a list of a few of them.
Christopher Joseph Ford (born January 11, 1949 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA) is a former professional basketball player and head coach.
Christopher Paul Ford is an American martial artist and film actor known for his role [...]
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The TV series Red Dwarf is coming back with a couple of specials written by Doug Naylor. One will be called ‘Last Human’ in which Lister is set to get back to earth after being away for more than 6 million years. Doug Naylor in 1995 wrote a Red Dwarf novel called Last Human in which Dave [...]
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This is a list of websites and some tips for simple use of the internet that I made to use when I give my Gran her first internet lesson. This may be useful for someone else teaching a grandparent that lives in the UK about the internet.
Lesson 1. Google.
Google is your friend.
Google is currently the best internet [...]
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I love this book. A short history of nearly everything, isn’t really about everything but a history of science told in away that makes it really interesting to the reader. The author wrote this book because during a plane flight he looked down at the sea and wondered why the sea was salty and why he didn’t [...]
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For the past week I’ve been addicted to a game on the iPod called Fieldrunners. The aim of the game is to stop the games characters running from one side of the screen to the other by placing denfensive towers on to the field. Sounds easy but it’s not. There are four different types of towers that [...]
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I couldn’t get my iPod touch to download the latest firmware 2.0.1 probably because I hacked the 2.0 firmware onto it last month. I found the solution, it’s really easy and I didn’t have to paid the £5.99 fee for the 2.0 firmware.
Connect your iPod touch to your running iTunes. Make sure it shows up in iTunes.
Make sure your [...]
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This is just a quick test to see if the new Wordpress iPod app from the also new Apple app store works. So far it seems very easy to use and typing on the touch keyboard isn’t proving to hard. I think I’ll use this again!
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This is a two stage process:-
Stage 1: On the blog post that you want to add a Paypal ‘Buy Now’ button. Find the custom fields section and set the Key to ‘Price’ and the Value to how much the ‘Buy Now’ button is worth. See below
Stage 2: Add the code below to your wordpress template. [...]
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This morning I had to wait in for the delivery of my new 3 seat sofa and chair from Harvey’s. The delivery men arrived with my furniture when they said that they would, which was great. What wasn’t great is that the 3 seater sofa didn’t fit through the living room door. After about 10 [...]
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