http://www.worldofmac.co.uk The Trials and Tribulations Of Michael Collinson Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:38:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Out up and early today, off to watch Josh play football v Hepworth, near Holmfirth.  The rain seems to have blown over but it still doesn't look too appealing out there!  Very windy and cold I expect too, especially stuck on the touchline, half way up a hill.  Hope it's ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/11/14/football-2/ 1 day in and the servers for the epic new Modern Warfare 2 appear to be down.  For me on my PS3, the online is stucj at "Connecting To Matchmaker Server".  The blogosphere is speculating this is all due to the latest patch which was released to fix an entirely ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/11/11/modern-warfare-2-servers-down/ I have 20 Google Wave invites to give away.  If anyone wants one, please register on this site using the button at the top right corner of the page and comment on this post, or tweet me at @mcollinson.  Google don't always send the invites through immediately, so have patience!! Good ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/11/11/google-wave-invites/ My new receiver came yesterday, the Spektrum SR3500 2.4Ghz micro receiver.  It costs £60+, which is as much as the original Micro-T cost me in total!!  I've been very reluctant to part with that kind of money for one part of such a small car, but, bearing in mind the ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/11/08/losi-micro-t-radio-upgrade/ Since I upgraded my Micro-T to brushless, it's never worked properly.  The radio side of things was just so full of interference, the steering didn't work properly and it was an alltogether unsatisfactory affair.  I think I did it on the cheap basically and although the Xcelorin motor and ESC ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/11/06/resurrecting-the-micro-t/ OK here's the deal.  I've recently signed up for Typekit, and new technology that allows you to embed fonts into your own website.  The site is currently invitation only and I've got 5 invites to give away.  To get one of the 5 invites, please add a comment to this ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/11/06/typekit-invitations/ Well, good old Firefox has just autoupdated to 3.5.4 on my Windows 7 Home Premium system and when it fired back up guess what?  Yep, its gone and broken all my add-ons and whats more, when you try to install new ones, you get an error like so: Firefox could not ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/10/30/firefox-3-5-4-breaks-addons/ Finally, my new web design site is up and running.  Bamboo-Media.co.uk is my web design and marketing company and over the last few years, I've designed sites for advertising companies, Interior Design, windows and conservatory companies and schools.  I've designed the new site to have a fresh, clean contemporary feel ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/08/31/bamboo-media-site-now-up/ I've been designing websites for a few years now, from personal pages, to CMS sites for schools and corporate pages for clients.  I've used lots of sofware over the years, from Dreamweaver to StyleMaster and so on.  They all help enormously but ultimately, to get the site finished, you end ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/08/28/the-best-web-software-ive-ever-used/ OK, here it is - my fully converted Mini-T.  What started out as a bog standard Mini-T (with some alloy upgrades), has finally been converted into a full 1/16 buggy, thanks, to Exotek and their MXB Pro chassis kit.  It's cost me more than I would like, but now it's ... http://www.worldofmac.co.uk/2009/08/27/my-completed-losi-mini-t-buggy-conversion/