Tiernans Comms Closet

found this post over at rakimk’s blog showing you how to sync your Windows Live Writer drafts between machines with Live Mesh. I have stepped it up one further and shared my whole Windows Live Writer directory (drafts AND previous posts) with Live Mesh. Not sure why, but I did…
Also, using a similar technique, I [...]

A couple of days ago, i decided to get rid of my trusty Nokia N95 8Gb and get myself a new Windows Mobile Smartphone, namley the HTC S740. I pre-sold the N95 on Thursday, ordered the S740 20min later, and it arrived last night. Couple of things i have noticed since.

It is georgous! it is [...]

yesterday I posted about how to get Windows Home Server to act as a SVN server over SSH. Well, after a lot of following steps, sometimes multiple times last night, I gave up and went to bed…
Then today, I decided to mess around a bit more, and found the following post on the TortoiseSVN [...]

I have been running a Windows Home Server for a couple of months now, and other than some small issues with hardware (one of the hard drives failed, but i lost nothing!) i have been very happy with the experiance. i have used it to stream music and video to my XBox 360, and AFAIK [...]

Well, i finally managed to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, and, well, it rocks, but that’s another post for another day. today, i want to talk about something that i can only currently do on the MacBook Pro and that’s try out NVidia Cuda enabled applications.
My Mac Pro has an ATI Radeon [...]

Well, it looks like there may be a solution to the problem most people never have! Accell has introduced a USB 2.0 to VGA adapter which will work with PCs and Macs. its $90, does resolutions upto 1600X1200 and is powered by the USB connection. just wondering how fast this actually is… if its speedy [...]

A while back, before i got my hands on my new MacBook Pro, i went on a bit of a rant about dual external monitors for laptops… this, i must admit, was a crazy idea. why, in reality, would most people want 2 external monitors on their laptops… well, photography, programming, or anything where multiple [...]

So, again, like my last post, this is a “live” post. posting as i read it.
Apple has announced that their iTunes store will now have 3 prices for songs. $0.69, $0.99 and $1.29.
they have sold 6 billion songs, and have 10 millions songs in their library.
75 million accounts with Credit Cards…
by the end of this [...]

Apple have announced the new 17″ version of their MacBook Pro. this is being written live as i read live from Engadget and TUAW.
It has a Unibody enclosure, much like the 15″ MBP and 13″ MB which where announced last year.
it is just 0.98″ think, weighs 6.6lbs and has a 1920X1200 display. anti glare option [...]