Mark Dalby

Fighting Ignorance since 1986 (It’s taking longer than I thought).

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Apple iPad: It’s Magic!

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Tonight, After much speculation, deliberation and procrastination (@jason your a git!) our friend Steve jobs unveiled a gadget that will make anybody even slightly tech-savvy sell their own grandmother.
Introducing the iPad…
At first glance the device looks like somebody has had their iPhone on a stretching rack. but once you see [...]

Make FREE 0800 calls from your iPhone.

I don’t know how many of you own an iPhone but I’d like to take the oppurtunity to introduce a great little app we have just released to the store.
The name of the app is Numberstore and the sole purpose of it is to save you money when making 0800 or 0500 [...]

g0t Spam?!

g0t Spam?!

December 21, 2009 | No Comments | Software, Uncategorized

We all get sick to death of Spam email, I personally tend to switch my personal email address once a year. thankfully though there are groups of people who dedicate their free time to helping us.
One of these groups is “Project Honeypot” and i mention this group specifically as they just stopped their BILLIONTH spam [...]

Microsoft Reaches for the Sky.

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Back in May Microsoft signed an exclusive deal with television giant Sky which allowed them to stream the “Sky Anytime” content over its networks and straight into your XBOX 360.
Today Microsoft announced that this service will be ready to roll in the XBOX 360 Autumn update which is available on [...]

Next generation iphone 3G & 3GS Un-Crackable ’sic’.

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According to Apple the next version of the iPhone 3G and 3GS to be shipped out will have a modified boot rom which is reported to have been hardend against the 24kpwn exploit that so many cracking groups are using to jailbreak your phone (Blackr41n, Purpler4in, Devteam).
I actually find this pretty annoying, I’ve [...]

Installous :: The App store for Jailbroken iPhones

Lets face it unless you want the Italian operator logo’s there isn’t really much of value to the average joe on Cydia or ICY, The games are about as appealing as susan boyle and a jar of nutella and about as plentyfull as common sense at Microsoft!
Enter Installous, The App store for Cracked IPA’s (iPhone [...]

Don’t reset your Sidekick, Microsoft lost your data!!

WTF!?

Before I actually write any meaningful content, I just want to say… I told you so!
Danger (a Microsoft subsidiary) yesterday announced to Sidekick users that they have got little to no chance of ever seeing any personal information that was stored on their device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or [...]

Jailbreak iPhone and iPod Touch on OS 3.1.2

Even though OS 3.1.2 Was a pretty pityfull upgrade, A lot of people either accidentily upgraded or felt the need to be “up to date” and as a result were unable to jailbreak their iPhone.
Well there is a now a big shining flood lamp at the end of the tunnel in the form of “blackra1n”  [...]

Accessing your Router to change the WEP key.

I seem to do this quite a lot for people,  So I’m thinking it’s time to write some instructions.
Take the following scenario….
I’ve forgotten the Wireless password for my router (WEP / WPA Key).
Ok first up, if your on Sky or O2 broadband there is a sticker under your router so stop being a *#!@$ and [...]

Spotify makes a million ( and free invites )

According to out-law.com the music streaming platform Spotify has now reached in excess 300,000 premium users and has already turned over thier first million squid.
As an avid user (and premium subscriber) to the service I can see exactly why it is fast becoming one of the “big guns” in it’s arena.
The shocking figure [...]