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After months (probably even years now) of being intrigued by the hidden abilities of an unlocked iPhone, I decided to give it a try.

Downloading the 'BlackSn0w' app from my iMac straight down to my iPhone and then unpacking an app called 'Cydia' (the black-market App store if you will) was easy peasy!

But that was where the fun and games started!

After installing a few different apps and unlocks from the Cydia app my iPhone started behaving like a spoilt ...

What is an iMac? Well, it's a laptop, with the screen where the keyboard should be. Sat bolt upright on your desk.

While never strictly true, that used to be a fair description. Not any more.

Today's top-of-the-line iMac is a Quad Core Intel i7 powerhouse, with the 'computer' almost entirely hidden behind a screen so beautiful you'd be forgiven for wanting to reproduce with it. Hell, with my brains and the looks of this thing we'd finally have a being capable of reclaiming ...

I picked up an article from Twitter this morning. It's a Guardian piece about consumers, consuming. Electronics, to be precise.

I'd be lying if I said that the article blew me away, but I do appreciate the sentiment. When I think of the things I have bought over the years that I not only didn't need but had no practical use for it makes me shudder at the thought of the money I could have saved and the energy that could have been conserved.

Many of the electronic items ...

A lot of people share their computers. At work, at home, it's not uncommon for several people to make use of one machine.

Well, for the last 3 years I've been sharing my computer with up to 8 people. At the same time.

You see, my 2006 Mac Pro was loaded with Mac OS X Server, a really superb server operating system that handles your 'usual' client-server stuff, such as having user accounts that can log into any client machine on the network. Every day it effortlessly ...