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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Bayan 7: Power & Purity for Ears

Bayan Audio has unveild its premier iPod/iPhone dock with a world-first twin amplifier set-up driving a monster 120W of sound power. The unique and contemporary Bayan 7 speaker dock for iPod and iPhone delivers balanced, pure acoustics across an impressively wide frequency spectrum1. Effectively squeezing the best out of any audio source it blasts music to a new dimension with

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Sony’s PlayStation@Store Great films fill rooms videos

Memo, Barney, Robin and Ian from Studio Output have recently been funded by Sony’s PlayStation@Store to make a series of movie related videos using ‘Immersive Imaging’ which takes 3D projection mapping as its starting point, but gives the viewer a supercharged experience with the help of the PlayStation Move controller. In the past, projection mapping worked only from a single, static view

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Facebook Timeline: Now available worldwide as pre release

Facebook Timeline is going publically live worldwide on the 25th of Dember 2011. But are you ready for it? Facebook Timeline is set to give you an easy way to rediscover the things you shared, and collect your most important moments. It also lets you share new experiences, like the music you listen to or the miles you run. Starting today, timeline is now

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for November 2011

5407 different keyphrases were used to find my site in November 2011, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. As you can see my “Minecraft” posts have played yet again another keypart in driving traffic to this site. If you fancy checking out my minecraft server YAMS short for

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Two minutes silence for Armistice Day: Remembrance Day

Please join with me in 2 minutes silence today at 11:00am (11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 2011) to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day and Armistice Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to

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China is likely to have military divisions devoted to sifting through social media

Anyone watching James Bond or 1950’s war documentaries may be led to believe that in order to receive useful intelligence, a foreign agency or home-grown threat needs a network of all-charming, ever-discreet spies. Well, you’d be wrong. The chances are – you’re already feeding them all of the information they need via your social media profiles. Foreign Governments and terrorist

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for October 2011

6306 different keyphrases were used to find my site in October 2011, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. As you can see my “Minecraft” posts played a keypart in driving traffic to this site. If you fancy checking out my minecraft server YAMS short for “Yet Another Minecraft Server” you can