One of my brothers recently bought a Sony UX280p as a treat to himself for giving up smoking after seeing my Sony UX180P. The main differences between the two are more ram and a bigger hard disk drive in the UX280P.
When he got it he didn’t realize that he had a sim card in it and could use it to access the internet on a 3G connection in the UK. He even deleted the Cingular Connection Software that came with it.
Anyway, after pointing out the error in his ways he was able to download the Cingualar Connection Software from here.
Once he had done that he was able to unlock the Cingular Edge Card so he could use it on another network and then got it up and running with a payg T-Mobile sim card taking advantage of their unlimited internet access for £1 a day.
To do this he followed the instructions that I had previously written for the Sony UX180P and these worked just the same for his UX280P so if you need to unlock the Cingualar Edge card on the Sony UX280P or use a T-Mobile sim card with it then just follow the instructions on the pages below:
I recently purchased 1gb of Ram off eBay to install in my Mac Mini but hadn’t actually given any thought to how I would do this.
I expected it to be a reasonably simple process and when the ram arrived I dug out the instruction book that came with the Mac Mini to see how to do this. I was shocked to read ‘No user serviceable parts inside’ and if I wanted to do this I should take it to a service agents.
Well a quick search on Google and I found an Intel Mac mini: Take Apart Guide which gave details of how to take apart the Mac Mini and find the ram so I could upgrade it.
It certainly took all the guess work out of it and even came with pictures to explain step by step what you need to do.
I wouldn’t recommend this to the faint hearted and it could ultimately have an impact on your warranty but if you’re like me (inpatient) and want things done now go check out the guide.
Okay, so I have been usung my Brain Training game on my Nintendo DS lite enough to unlock the Triangle Math training. With the risk of sounding really dumb and missing something obvious, I just don’t get it.
I dont’ understand the instructions on the game enough to figure out how to get to the correct answer.
Below are the instructions:
It has to be something really simple that I am missing here.
Meet our new Wi-Fi bunny. He’s already annoying my Girlfriend so much that she can’t wait until he goes to sleep at night. I won’t tell you his name as I have heard that some people with these Nabaztag bunnies have been getting abusive messages sent through throughout the day.
Anyway, Wi-Fi bunny has a message for everyone. Just click on play to watch.
One of the gadgets I got this Christmas was a Nintendo DS Lite with the Brain Training game. I wanted one of these because as I’ve got older my memory and concentration levels seem to have got worse over time and I wanted a fun way to stop the rot.
An example of this is at a recent dinner party with family one of my brothers mentioned that he had been on holiday in Turkey. I told him that we had been their too and he asked where we went. I asked my Girlfriend and she couldn’t remember either but we did agree between us that it was probably a couple of months ago. I told my brother that he was lucky we could remember going there at all but where we went was too much to ask. That’s how bad things got.
Anyway, I plugged it in and went to the quick play to find out my brain age. In this mode it just gives you a rough idea and I was horrified to be told my brain age was in it’s 80’s. Bearing in mind the lowest score and best you could get is 20 I was mortified.
So I duly went through the training programs and did a more accurate test to be told my brain age was 78. An improvement but still a worry.
After about a week I have managed to get that down to 34 but there is still a long way to go. I’ve found that I have got a mental block on my 8 times table so simple questions like 7 x 8 I get wrong quite often. It’s strange because I know the answer to 8 x 7 so I am now learning to reverse the question to answer it faster.
I have a couple of issues with the game. It has trouble recognizing my number 8’s when I write them which causes my scores to go down when in reality I did get the question right and the letter recognition is hopeless in my case so when you have to remember 20 words and write them down afterwards it sometimes takes 6 or 7 attempts for my words to be recognized properly which again keeps my score down.
All in all though it’s quite fun to do and worth the effort. It certainly has helped me so far.
