Henri Cook

Nokia Nokia Nokia, i’ve been a faithful customer for years but the Ovi store might be the last straw.
I’ve had problems with you spamming my email in an impossible-to-unsubscribe manner, your poor online customer service and you’ve slowly been falling behind as the IPhone has become more and more prominent.
I’ve just logged in to the [...]

I was surprised this morning to find that McAfee ‘On Access Scan’ had deleted my copy of Spotify overnight saying that it was an example of W32 IRCbot.gen.z – thanks Mcafee, you’re now disabled.
This of course raises an interesting question – does Spotify connect to IRC somewhere? What other reason could McAfee have for detecting [...]

After a morning looking at phones to buy the ideal combination to me would seem to be the Nokia N97’s hardware running Android – alas such a combination doesn’t exist, if I want Android I have to put up with the ugly HTC G-Phone range. Iphones are getting a little tired and I miss things [...]

I was recently asked to repair a five year old Sony Vaio PCG-FX705, it’s got a 600 Mhz processor don’t ya know? Anyway it overheats and shuts down a lot which makes it bin worthy to my eyes, but a sentimental owner has a different opinion. Here’s a couple of pictures of my solution to [...]