Jamie Balfour

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Today I am going to review the BlueLounge CableBox in my blog. Firstly, it is nothing more than a box with slots for wires to go through. And it's aim is to tidy up wiring. They cost around £25, which is a bit steep for nothing more than a box.

However, and this is a big however, the CableBox, despite being nothing more than a box, is getting a 8/10 from me because of the fact that has worked how I wanted it to but because it's expensive for what it is.

It's easy to see how it has changed my wiring system (I am still in the process of tidying my wires, but you can see how the BlueLounge CableBox has changed it all so far!).

A little update on this: Ikea have since released their own much cheaper models, and whilst they are not quite a nice in design as the BlueLounge ones, they offer a much better value solution.
Posted in Short reviews
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As you may have noticed. I've been working on the site quite recently. There is a new blog specifically for BlackRabbit now. Here I will post updates about BlackRabbit and what I intend to bring to it within the future years.

Posted in Software
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As you may have noticed. I've been working on the site quite recently. There is a new blog specifically for BlackRabbit now. Here I will post updates about BlackRabbit and what I intend to bring to it within the future years. Twitter is now deeply integrated into my website now too.

Posted in Website news
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As of today, the site has moved from freefind.com to Google for the search provider. I am most happy to say that you can now search the website from the largest search provider around - Google.

I must also point out whilst I am here, the website has two or three other changes. Firstly, I have changed the section known as VB.NET to Developer, as I use different languages as well that I would like to be able to display on the site. Secondly, the new section known as Education has been recently added, here I will share stuff relating to learning - hopefully. I also do not intend to keep the section related to YouTube, as it has become apparent to myself that it is unnecessary as it has not been updated with a single script yet.

Remember, find out more on Twitter.

Posted in Website news
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Since the last post on the blog, I have procured a new development in software. This development has worked out to the best with BlackRabbit. The project known as "Warsaw" is considered a great improvement and with use of BlackRabbit, we have developed a "concise set of commands" which operate to reduce the time wasted repeating tasks over and over.

Posted in Software
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After today's episode of Spooks, a series which has kept me on the edge of my seat for nearly ten great years, I am saying goodbye to it. The series which is produced for and aired by the BBC has made television great again for me, along with the similar Hustle programme which is shown early in the year as opposed to late, are both set to end in the current series. Television to me will once again only become the occasional programme and EastEnders

Spooks will also go down in my own books as my favourite TV series of all time followed by Hustle.

We are going to miss it, but I would like to take a moment to say "thanks" to all of the Spooks greats for making it so epic; Peter Firth, Nicola Walker, Richard Armitage, Rupert Penry Jones, Hermione Norris, Miranda Raison, Matthew Macfadyen, Robert Glenister, Tim McInnerny and Raza Jaffrey).

Posted in Miscellaneous
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz
8GB DDR2 8500 RAM
1x 120GB SSD, 2x 1TB hard drives, 1x 2TB hard drive
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
XFX ATI Radeon HD5670
Blu-Ray ROM, Blu-Ray RW and DVD-RW drives
Card reader and Floppy disk drive
Lian-Li PC-60B Plus
Corsair HX850W PSU
Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 v2
Labtec Arena 5.1 Surround sound
Dell P2310h 23" 1920 by 1080 LCD monitor DVI
Wacom Bamboo Graphics tablet
Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF
Hauppauge HVR-1100 TV card
40 inch Samsung LE40M87 LCD TV in duplicate setup
Wireless Philips Headphones

Posted in Tech talk
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I watched Muse live at T In The Park (on TV) and I have to say they are as good as they are on the CDs when they are live! What a performance it was!

Posted in Miscellaneous
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This is where I will be posting personal responses to some questions that are left. If you have a computer question, feel free to contact me at jamie@jamiebalfour.co.uk and I will check my email inbox and try to answer these questions either on YouTube or via this blog in the Computer questions section. I am also no longer posting on my Blogger account through Google Blogger, so its a bit of a sad transition. You can find my old Blogger posts (which will appear here one day!) here.

This blog system is provided by one.com, my web host and it offers many nice integration features as well as HTML (which I do not know but I will learn soon).

Posted in Miscellaneous
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We have finally arrived at a new government! I must say, after 13 years of Labour it is exciting (but the Tory part is not so exciting), but I do not know if it is what I want. The only reason that I can possibly say that I would enjoy having this new government is that the Liberal Democrats will be holding some key places in it hopefully. Nonetheless, I would have preferred having Labour over the Conservatives, but I am going to give this new coalition a chance and see how it goes.

I wish the new government the best of luck!

Posted in Politics
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