http://www.geekwithlaptop.com Thu, 08 May 2008 20:09:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My main blog is about linkbait, how to write it, what it is, what is it useful for etc. The blog is used for a number of things: Lead generation for my consultancy business Building a brand within the online marketing space Exploring topics through discourse Venting some steam I don't make money from my ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/why-being-a-freelance-blogger-rocks/ Building a GeForce 880 card, 2GB of RAM, and a 3GHz dual-core CPU with windows vista for less than £450 PC Case Cooler Master RC-330 V2 Price £25.79 Scan.co.uk Power Supply 500W FSP Blue Storm II Price £58.62 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Price £46.93 Processor 1.6GHz Dual-Core Intel Pentium E2140 Price £43.11 Memory 2GB(2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2 DDR2 PC2-6400 Price £34.08 Cooling Bit Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Price ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/building-the-ultimate-budget-pc/ I have been playing a lot of World of Warcraft lately, purely for a writing assignment you understand. My first thoughts are that it was going to be relatively easy to put down, but it's suprisingly addictive. One thought occured as I chatted to other players is that World of ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/is-world-of-warcraft-a-social-network/ I suppose you have to start by defining weirdos. The best way to do this is if you all agree with my definition and then we have a common base point. My definition covers anyone who makes a comment on a blog pointing out the misuse of the apostrophe. Which ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/which-social-network-has-the-most-weirdos/ Hi, you are probably wondering where Sean is. Actually Sean is a very busy guy and I think he has gone on to pastures new. So who the hell am I? My name is Lyndon Antcliff and I am a geek. Or is it a nerd, I can never remember, I ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/geek-with-laptop-under-new-management/ This Day in Tech - 1948: An inversion layer settles over the rust belt town of Donora, Pennsylvania, trapping industrial pollution in the atmosphere. When it clears six days later, 20 people are dead, another 50 are dying and hundreds will live out their days with permanently damaged lungs. Inversion occurs ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/death-cloud-envelops-pennsylvania-mill-town/ Illustrating both that the PS2 is still a relevant gaming machine and that the Japanese gaming public adores weirdness, Seaman 2 debuted at the top of the Japanese sales charts this week, edging out DS Bungaku Zenshuu. One other PS2 title, Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor, cracked the top ten, but ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/seaman-2-tops-japanese-sales-charts/ GMail has gained IMAP support, one of the most requested features for Google's web-based e-mail service. More than storage space or other features, free web-based IMAP access pushes GMail over the top when compared to offerings from Yahoo, Microsoft and most other web-based e-mail services. If you log into your GMail ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/google-adds-imap-support-to-gmail/ During the Q&A portion of Monday's Q4 earnings call, Apple's COO Timothy Cook made an interesting statement. Cook said he estimates that 250,000 of the nearly 1.4 million iPhones Apple has sold were "bought with intention of unlocking." That's almost 20 percent of all iPhones sold to date. Can Cook be ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/apples-estimates-250k-iphones-sold-to-unlockers/ Microsoft said it would cut the Japan price of its Xbox 360 game gear by 13 percent to 34,800 yen ($305.00 USD) on November 1 in a bid to shore up demand for the console struggling in a home turf of Nintendo Co Ltd and Sony Corp. The move follows a ... http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/microsoft-cutting-xbox-360-price-in-japan/