Category Archives: Culture

Tales Of A Zoom H4n – Liz Frencham & Pete Fidler

Posted on 31/Oct/2009 by thatch
Photo By Jools Thatcher

Back in Early October My Friend Ian (MFI) scored a gig at the Clifton Hill Hotel, he was doing it a s a duo with Ed bates.  BUT this isn’t about him (soon, soon my dark pet) this is aboutRead the Rest »

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Leave Our Gigs Alone

Posted on 11/Oct/2009 by thatch
Enda Kenny and Ian Bland

Jools and I went to see Ian and The Lamington Drive Orchestra (and yes this is the infamous MFI Ian for those of you who came in late). Needless to say I  had my bag of toys with us andRead the Rest »

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MediaCoder an open-source audio/video transcoder

Posted on 21/Oct/2006 by thatch

Ever received a snippet of video from a friend with a MAC and not had it play? I wont go into the PC/Mac dichotomy other than to say that the PC world seems to have more solutions to Mac createdRead the Rest »

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Password Exporter

Posted on 1/Oct/2006 by thatch

Oh Dear… More Firefox zealotry. Following up on I sent you WHAT!!, today lets look at the reverse, How do you move your passwords, to a different PC. The answer (assuming you are using Firefox… and of course you allRead the Rest »

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PDF Readers-Their Care and Feeding

Posted on 27/Sep/2006 by thatch

Have you noticed that there is a weird relationship between the Adobe PDF Reader version number and the amount of minutes that it takes to load? Coincidence? Well actually it probably is. But if you are bored to death waitingRead the Rest »

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The Final Frontier

Posted on 8/Sep/2006 by thatch

Newsflash: We’re going to die. Now if even Arthur Dent can figure it out in the first Hitchhikers book, why is “snuffing it” such a taboo subject? I dont know about the rest of you, but have you ever noticedRead the Rest »

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