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Blog Christmas Eve … Eve December 23rd 2009

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Welcome to the eve of Christmas Eve, oh yes, its almost Christmas, as in its only 2 days as of writing this, but to be honest I’m actually not looking forward to Christmas this year, I’m not saying I’m a Scrooge, although I do hate snow, which the weather has definitely been delivering rather worldwide in that department. Basically I’m not getting ought for Christmas, I think everyone gets to that age of where Christmas is basically like the 25th November or something just more decretive.

What are you getting for Christmas then?
Well, nothing really, my main present if you would call it that is Apple Care for my MacBook, which whilst is good meaning I will be covered till March 2011, which is awesome, y know its always best to have something that you can actually carry around with you, and carrying a disc and a box with you kinda isn’t really that good.

Did you want something for Christmas but couldn’t?
I’ve been wanting a Wii for quite a while, although based on the fact that my sister has one and I’m yet to see a game better than Wii Sports for the Wii kinda makes it less tempting, although the new black one would be nice! Everything else kinda isn’t out yet!

If those else were out what are they?
What a poorly laid out question, anyway. Basically next year I’m planning on getting things as soon as they come out. Basically the next iPhone, which will be Vodafone for me when the new one comes out for June/July time. Since 1997 I’ve been a constant fan of Pokémon and Heart Gold and Soul Silver are to be released in March in North America, basically meaning, in English, so I’ll be ordering a copy of that. The good thing about Nintendo games (apart from TV consoles) is they have no regions to there’s no PAL and NTSC to worry about.
And lastly, something I think I’ve already mentioned is a Mac Mini, the main reason I haven’t got one yet is based on how much I’ve got for it at the moment, probably get it just before my birthday then get some money for my birthday which I will then spend to improve the Mini, so woo! I had a close look at the Mac Mini when I recently went to the Apple Store and whilst its surprisingly heavy, still love it completely.

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Life in General
Well seen as my last blog was 21st, nothing much can actually happen in two days especially when its the holiday season, basically I’ve got all my Christmas presents, all sorted now which is good, the only thing I haven’t rapped up is my Mums as its so small, but yeh!

Trip to Apple Store, Bacon Fries and more!
Lastly, yesterday I went to the Apple Store, well more precisely to Meadowhall in which has an Apple Store, I went with Rob, which after an unexpected visit with Ben ended up being a visit to the Apple Store with Rob, Ben and his GF. Whilst this wasn’t really ideal as only me and Rob care about Apple gear and understand how much better an Apple Store is rather than going to lets say, Comet or something, so the time in the Apple Store was alot less than was planned originally. So I had a look at the new massive 27″ iMac, which is massive! Also had a look at the new white MacBook, which really is the same as the previous one but thinner. Then I had a look at my future baby, the Mac Mini, to be my second Mac, well whilst having a tour of the Mac Mini was a lot quicker than the other two based on its actual size that was kinda over quickly, so yeh!

A cold wintery end to the day!
Due to the fact we had more joining us in the journey, we had more hassle, lets be honest was expected, so apart from finding multiple places that sell Bacon Fries, which is absolutely awesome, had 3 packs in one day and loved it! But one thing that I did find annoying, well based on the fact we ended up getting there when we actually would of preferred to get home, that was the first annoyance, baring in mind we set of at around 11:30AM, and we got there in mids hours of 4PM and based on the fact there was no late traffic, just based on hassle with extra people. But asiding that, when we eventually got to leaving, got train back, FINE, then we caught a bus to get home, go figure, then suddenly to find out that we were going to Dewsbury!!! OK, its freezing, we’re hours later than expected, its getting dark and we’re heading further away from home, so yeh I was not impressed. So, when we arrived in Dewsbury after an insaine phone call Rob had about buses, we found out Rob was coming to get his GF. So, completely and utterly pissed off I was about that, why? One, I would of 100% of gone home if I knew that we were going for that reason, Two, all I could do was stand around while Ben and Rob comforted their GFs, I’m sorry but anyone else would say “F*** it” and gone home on the next bus before them. So, when the time arrived when we were all going home we did and I had the most boring bus journey of my life, then when we got home, we stood in the minus temperatures as they continued with what they were doing at Dewsbury, and I just couldn’t stand any longer of it so I went home! And ya know the worst thing about this, they’ll read this and call me unreasonable, unbef***inglievable

Summary
So, a day with the potential to be my favourite day in December ended being the worst, thanks guys! Although I do now have alot of Bacon Fries stockests. Ooo, and I didn’t mention the Magic Mouse at Apple Store, I found it awesome, guess some people have weird hands!

Anyway, thats all for now, probably next blog will be next year so err. Happy 2009 and Merry Christmas from me and all the team at RKUK Media, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

Blog Saturday 19th December 2009

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Well, its the holidays, more precisely, the Christmas Holidays, oh yes! Whilst I may have made that last sentence sound like I’m totally exited about the christmas holidays well quite frankly I’m not this year, why? well because of the children meaning of christmas isn’t really that effective this year, ie. the presents. This year my main present for christmas is Apple Care, not that I don’t want it, of course I want an extended warranty up to 3 years meaning it will end March 2011 for my MacBook, also with additional add-on tools to help me diagnose any issue I have along the way, but y’know, its more exciting when you get something you can feel, touch, take out etc.
However, next year I’m going to be getting quite a lot of cool stuff anyway so thats fine, I’m going to be getting a Mac Mini for my birthday, well, I’m saving up for it, so I’ll be getting stuff for it, Soul Silver a month after then a new iPhone when it comes out, oh yes, me is all planned. The funny thing is my parents think I’m very un-controlling with my money, yeah.
Anyway, whilst Joe won the X Factor last week I can confirm based on reports of the Saturday sales that he is more or less guaranteed to be number …. 2 tomorrow, based on reports today, unless a miracle happens which could only happen with the X Factor. Yep a song that was crap in 1992 is beating actually not a bad song, as I said before, pity it had to be a Miley Cyrus, who is the second worst thing to come from America to our country after black music.
Anyway, on a lighter note, I’ve added a wallpaper to RKUK Media to add to the white RKUK Media logo, and trust me that is as Christmasy as we are getting, I mean, come on, we’ve got a christmas section featuring pretty much all Christmas Songs we can think of what more do you want!
One thing that is cool that I’ve added to RKUK Media is a Mac version of No$GBA, we are currently the only place that has this, seriously, feels good to be exclusive, check it out by going to the RKUK tab at the top and selecting Downloads from the tab, this is on RKUK Media by the way.

But that all thats mattered to me since my last blog, so errr E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

Blog Sunday 13th December 2009

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Its really kinda my fault I haven’t had a blog for nearly a month, so its only right I rush to it before its too late.
Since my last blog I’ve had headache with EMA, missed three weeks of EMA because they decided to, I don’t know, not pay me, but finally got it sorted out last week, so hopefully that should be it. But all in all the last few weeks have dragged, just because college is getting crapper and crapper, just starting to drag, can’t wait to leave to be honest.

A Christmas Carol
Yesterday I went to the cinemas to see A Christmas Carol, the new one with Jim Carrey, and if I’m going to be perfectly honest I thought it wasn’t that good. If you like Jim Carrey you have such high expectations, but I thought it was quite frankly, well not terrible, it definitely was the best Christmas Carol I’ve ever seen, but nothing special. So I’d give a 3/5, sorry Carrey, but you’ve done better. If you want a good Jim Carrey Christmas Movie stick to the Grinch, which is now in Blu-Ray, Wooo!

X-Factor
Like many including over 10 million who voted, I’ve just found out that the winner of the X Factor 2009 was Joe, and I’m so glad, firstly cause its a male winner, and secondly unlike Leon Jackson, he’s actually a good singer, I’ll be buying Joe’s album when it comes out, but not the winners song though. I am a firm hater of Miley Cyrus, why? Well, where do I start. She loves herself, she’s a crap singer and actress and, well I think I’ve said it all there! So, yeh, big fan of Joe, so yeh, happy about that!

Mac Mini
Next year I’ll be getting a Mac Mini, so err, yeh. Just thought I’d mention that. Hopefully Apple release iLife 2010 so it will have the edge over the aluminium MacBook I’m typing on. I’ll be getting the top spec Mac mini and of course I’ll be doing a review of it when I get it of course.

Life in General
Nothing really has happened in life really, yeh sorry to disappoint you with my disappointing life.

Upcoming to RKUK Media
1. Your Future Mobile
Your Future Mobile has returned to RKUK Media and this time we’re allowing anyone to submit reviews about there handsets, so get your reviews in, all you need to do is to send an e-mail to rkukonline@gmail.com with the phone name, first impressions, pros and cons and your mark out of 10. Simple as, oh and leave a name otherwise we’ll simply put, review by, then your email address, so leave an alias name of your name.

2. Videos in 2010
RKUK Media are going to create more videos than ever before in 2010, so yeh look out for that. In February, The Show live will also launch with Ben.

3. Return of Marriland
RKUK removed Marriland from the top tab, well after a little message from Marriland’s Twitter, he will continue to uploading videos from Tuesday, which is good. Marriland will replace the R-Browser tab as R-Browser is now discontinued.

4. Google Adsense
Whilst this may seem like something which would only effect us, and more adverts may seem like something bad for RKUK Media, but we’re going to be adding adverts only on certain pages about the page sections, for instance, mobile phone adverts on Your Future Mobile etc. Plus, if we start to make money on RKUK Media, then we will get bigger and better.

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And thats all for this blog, I’ll be returning to my old routine with the blogs, as in atleast one a week. I’ll also be focusing alot on TechnoBuffalo and more.

E-Ya Later folks

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

http://www.technobuffalo.com/BenAtRKUK

Microsoft Windows 7 Review

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Microsoft did something they haven’t done for a while, in fact for ever, Windows Vista wasn’t even laying a bit of dust and, bam!, here’s this beta of a new operating system and then, boom, you’ve got Windows 7 released. So, whats the crack, is it good, worth it, gonna be a turn around for the Vista pain we’ve all shared? These are the main questions I intend to answer in this brief overview of Microsoft’s latest offering to the Windows world.

Should I upgrade to Windows 7
This is where we get to the Microsoft dilemma. For some reason Microsoft have this OS they just simply can’t get rid off, of course I’m talking about XP. Microsoft tried with Vista and failed quite badly, especially with compatibility involving drivers, which even Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) admitted. This is why this question is hard to answer so I have to section it out.
XP users:No. Yes, believe it or not I still don’t think Windows 7 is worth it for XP users. Why? Well put it this way, Windows 7 (Business and Ultimate) have an added compatibility feature called ‘XP Mode’, so the big question is, do you want to pay hundreds of £/$ on an operating system thats more than likely going to have to emulate the software you’ve been using. Don’t get me wrong, Windows 7 offers some good offerings, but nothing that can’t be added to XP with 3rd party software.
Vista users:Hell yeh! If you’re on Windows Vista, or been on Vista. Windows Vista did something amazing, instead of promoting Microsoft and boosting the love at Microsoft, it boosted the love for alternate options like Mac OSX and Linux, Microsoft are prob the only ones who’ll manage to do that! If you’ve gone through the moodswings of Windows Vista you deserve to put 7 on your machine thats been battling through it all with ya, personally it should be free for Vista users as compensation if you ask me.


Windows 7 has many new features which are finally gonna change the way you use Windows. Windows 7 now features some major ‘Aero‘ enhancements, in fact alot. And, I’ve got to admit they really improve the way you use Windows. Aero Snap to easily have two windows in view at the same, which is handy, the method can also be used to maximise the windows, I know, rather neat. Other features include Aero Shake, which easily allows on window to be the centre of attention and get rid of the rest temporarily, then, shake, and their back, also very useful. You’ll find yourself trying to do these features more or less all the time.
The Explorer in Windows 7 also has some great enhancements, basically fixing the Vista one, things are laid out easily and it makes using it alot more easier. It also features more sharing options. So, I know what you’re thinking, its Vista with a few appearance changes, oh no. Windows 7 is alot more than (a bit more of) a pretty face it also has a few hidden enhancements, Action Center replaces Windows Security Center improving in-built security which is always a good thing, Windows Media Center has a new look (like a green Zune) which is a big more slick than before, and, oh yes, that dock … err… I mean, ‘Windows Taskbar’. Windows Taskbar allows you to see only your program icon nice and big, but also interact with the programs by either right clicking or view (if multiple windows open) by hovering over, a new Aero feature that. It also allows you to “pin” programs to the taskbar for future quicklaunch, all these features do sound familiar don’t they? You maybe thinking Windows Sidebar is no more, but no, now simply referred to as ‘Gadgets’, all the so-called sidebar stuff now can be put anywhere on your desktop, but also if you add it to where the sidebar would be they click in to place, which is nice. Windows 7 also has added touchscreen support, useful for users on Tablets. Improvements have been added to the Start menu as well, one nice add-on is the fact that ‘Shut Down’ is now one button and not hidden behind an arrow. Also it includes a feature which allows you to open, for example, older visited pages for Internet Explorer, or documents for ‘Word’, nice that. I normally wouldn’t mention a new version of Media Player, but Windows Media Player 12 has some nice new additions, unfortunately WMP11 looked better, but it now supports ‘.mp4′ which is nice. It also comes with IE8 …. (bring on the sarcastic woo). Windows classic applications such as WordPad and Paint get a very nice update, including the look first seen in Office ’07 and Paint is now not a bad program at all for image editing and creating with the new brush options.
But I think the biggest Pro we can give Windows 7 is, the release version is, well, actually rather stable.

Pros
1. Nice update if your a Vista user
2. Very stable, keep that one up for future releases please Microsoft
3. Windows Media Center alot clearer and helpful
4. WMP12 has new codec, most importantly H.264
5. Improved Account Control
6. Very useful Aero features / Aero Shake Aero Snap etc
7. New taskbar helps with multiple programs running and program management.
8. Updated Paint and Wordpad look and feel, and features. Finally
9. Gadgets no more stuck to one side of the desktop.
10. New Explorer look and feel.
11. Added compatibility
12. DirectX 12 (For all you gamers out there)
13. Easier to disable UAC << Like that one

Cons
1. Not enough to make XP users upgrade
2. Most old software still rely on ‘XP Mode’.
3. Whilst the taskbar is nice, still has the same UI from back in Windows 95.
4. Very expensive for the small amount of differences with Vista
5. Why still 6 versions.
6. Added Security? Then why does it still need virus protection
7. Same system requirements than Vista
8. Definitely not enough to make new Mac users switch back.
9. A bit too-like Vista

Overview
Windows 7 is a nice upgrade and adds many features that are not found in previous versions of Windows. Whilst these features are useful, I do fail to see many features that would put me first in the queue for Windows 7. Windows 7 is a must-have however for Vista users as it, not only makes using the computer better but XP Mode will make those old dusty apps will finally run on that recently bought computer.
- Some nice additions, but nothing that appeals to XP or recent switches thanks to Vista.

Disclaimer;
This review is aimed towards the average user.

Blog Thursday 19th November 2009 – 4oD on YouTube, Weird College Room and more!!!

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It’s Thursday, my day off which usually would be the case but for the first time ever in ICT I’ve got homework, I know, I’m thinking of consulting parliament, this is terrible, this is, WAAT, this is, oh my! So, yeh quite annoyed about that! I was also woken up by a drill noise, but the advantage is, we now have a shower, maybe I should explain. Basically our shower has been, for some reason, rubbish, we’ve been having cold showers, but we’ve now got a new one. Unfortunately it didn’t work at first, so this entire week has been spent, fixing the … electric thing …. arrghh forgot what you call it, but yeh, then replaced the shower and now we’re good to go!
Anyway, back to the blog, well one thing I’ve seen two classic TV adverts which basically mean it’s Christmas, the old classic ToysRUs ad is actually on as I’m typing this, ya know the one, the one with the cheasy song, that and, the big one, THE COCA COLA AD! Oh yes, the Cola ad, if that doesn’t come on, its not Christmas.
I have to say though, since my last blog, its all happened on RKUK, but nought really in lifely-hood, except on Wednesday when I had my last lesson, for whatever reason we’re not in the room we normally are, which not only was an opportunity to go into another College Centre, but not all was good, basically we ended up in the most freaky looking room, they were toy dinosaurs, communist babies and everything, basically it was meant for about 10 year olds at the maximum, which kinda made it fun, no one did anything and theirs a cool guy whos only in that lesson whos pretty funny, which is a bonus.
But thats all for me so far, so some RKUK news below!

RKUK Toolbar Update
RKUK have released an update for the RKUK Toolbar, the update basically consists on some e-mail security updates and now has Ask, Yahoo! and Dogpile. To update the toolbar, go to the RKUK Menu on the toolbar, the drop down to the right of the RKUK logo, and click ‘Refresh Toolbar’, the toolbar will blink and you’ll have new searches, so yeh!

Video Uploads are coming back!
Just a quick announcement to know that Video Uploads are back on RKUK Media for all members. To upload a video, well, click Add a Video. Or click Upload Video in the tab on Videos. The Video button on top of the … thing now links to all Videos rather than RKUK Entertainment after requests, RKUK Entertainment is now in the top drop-down tab.

Well, thats it for now, E-Ya Later… I guess, WOW that was a poor ending.

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

Blog Friday 13th (oooo) November 2009

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No I don’t know why I did that either, but at the same time I couldn’t resist, well I’m sure we’ll find all sorts of things like that in our lifetime! <<WAT! Anyway, on that note we return to the matter in hand, this blog! Now in my last few blogs I have been bragging about how much, well, nothing really happens, not saying thats particularly changed, but, well, a few things have happened over the last few days I thought I’d share with the world!

We’re off to see Nickelback!
I know what you’re thinking, damn Ben why didn’t you add that in to your blog title, thats pretty epic, dude, or something, but well the reason I didn’t is … well, let me explain. On Wednesday night I got a phone call from Rob asking if I wanted to see Nickelback, and I was like, well, yeah of course, so agreed that the details would be filled tomorrow, which would also be when it would happen, put the phone down. So, I’m like, yeh, Nickelback gig, rock on! Then, I later found out that it actually was the Christmas Light switch on at Leeds, which would be still alright had it not be for my Mum informing me from Real Radio, who just so happen to organise this event of epicness, so yeh brill, trust me the replacement is worth waiting for!
So, me, Rob and James (Rob’s brother) set off to the bus stop where we met Ben (not me obviously) and set off to the bus stop where we we’re to go to Dewsbury to meet Trish, who’s Trish, well its Rob’s new GF, don’t you read my blogs, arrrghghh! ….Anyway, so, bus to Dewsbury, train to Leeds, wooo train. I actually got an extreemly cheap ticket for the train, I had £10 and it was like 30-odd pence, yeh love carrying that change, then my ticket never got checked so in reality I could of probably just not got one and enjoyed a light pocket, but I now had a determined challenge to spend my change through the day, wayy! So, we arrived in Leeds and who did I see, well, on Rob’s birthday I saw Ashley from College, well this time I saw Michael from College, when I’m saying from College, I mean last year when the course wasn’t full of di**s. So, had a chat to him, turned out he was off to the same place but was meeting his girlfriend, so yeh, so eventually I joined the gang and continued on to the rather expectedly large crowd. It was absolutely chucking it down which was bad, the Nickelback not performing was confirmed, ugghh, but Pixie Lott is still coming, wopty flipping duu, refrain me from doing summersaults in excitement, OK maybe that was harsh, if anything she’s quite good looking, anyway, and my age + 1, I know, bonus, anyway again, but the fact that Nickelback wasn’t here meant they’d to fill the gap and who with, well the first was the crap X-Factor singer who had that hideous dress and was fat, link at the bottom of this blog of a YouTube link. But then, ooo it all started to kick off, on the stage came Loraine Kelly!!! OH MY GOD, IT’S that one from LK Today thats on when I’m either not awake or at college, or have much better things to do or watch. Then when they filled the rest in with idiots dressed in costumes singing ‘Frosty The Snowman’ which call me rather weird I don’t actually know the words to, I think we’d had enough, definitely Ben had, Rob later said it wasn’t happy that Ben didn’t like it, but, Rob, seriously, face it, it wasn’t the best of shows! Anyway, so, where to go now, well, we ended up tracing all the way back to Cleck and going to Weatherspoons, then James had to go home, and huhh, so Ben took James home and I was left with Rob and Trish, who later had probably the biggest fuss to going home I’ve ever seen, seriously if I had a Guinness World Record adjudicator with me, we’d have a record on our hands, all I’m gonna say is he wasn’t like that with Beth, so thats a good sign, anyway, look at me talking about people on here, oo! It’s not like I’ve revealed that some people **** in the toilets and shout it on an almost full bus or anything! I think we’re even. Anywho, so yeh, so I went with them for the journey and ooo it was indeed a fun journey, to Dewsbury, then in the Red Corner, Rob “Fore the Taxi” and in the Blue Corner, Trish “I’ll walk I’ll be fine”. I’m not dissing them, I’ve just never seen someone have so much fuss over each other, anyway, when the night ended we got home, on the same bus as well, ooo! But then came a bluddy other trouble, just as we were getting close to our stop, the bus lights turn off and he goes the otehr way, ARTGHH, so we ran out of the bus basically, we almost got deported!
YEAH! Anyway, oh yeh I spent my money on McDonnalds, I got Large and a Small portion of fries as their just isn’t enough in the portion of large, don’t you tink, oo and some Munchies! Spent rest today on Lucozade and toast, woo living the high life me!
When I got home I gave my Mum a heart attack which was kinda funny, it probably wouldn’t be if it was an actual heart attack but ya know what I mean.

Anyway, just gonna finish by letting you know that Windows 7 Review will happen when it happens, the RKUK Toolbar will have an update soon with Yahoo! Bing and Dogpile search added, thanks for the requests guys. We’ve got a proxy site, oh and Selection 77 is out. Breath it, breath out, it is indeed all starting to happen. Such a pity its gonna absolutely pi** it down all weekend … bugger. Oh well, I’m a Celeb starts on Sunday and of course X-Factor where surely Lloyd should go now!

Anyway, thats all for now, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

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YouTube Link;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Q142RaG3Y = The blond one!

Blog Saturday 7th November 2009

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These past few months I have discovered something which is rather annoying to me personally and, well, in general and is really starting to effect me as a person, and thats the fact that I have a dull life. Seriously, ever since I started level 3 course, which I have to say I cannot stand, why, well the course is dull, the tutors are dull and everyone in my course are dull. This is basically why I haven’t been blogging much, I mean my last personal blog was the 24th October!!!! … !!!!

Since last blog one thing good has happened I guess, I went to the cinema, YEAAHH, no this time I didn’t get stitched up by a girl, this time I was going with Rob and the gang, plus a few more. And even though I was annoyed that I’d just had a week off with nothing happening, then the Monday it all happens, it was actually a rather fun night. we ended up seeing ‘The Vampires Assistant’ which was actually a very good film, unfortunately it suffers from been very very american, and if their is one accent in the world I just cannot stand its the american one, especially the women, you know my theory when women in america finish their sentences with a croak is because they are lazy seriously try it, say a sentence by hardly opening your mouth and use as little strength as possible, wa-la you’ve got the american voice. Anyway, back to the film, the film itself has a pretty weak storyline but makes up for it with good actors, which doesn’t mean well known actors, it means actually good actors, and yeh is an alright film.
Afterwards me, Rob, Ben, Grandad, Jordan, and two lasses, one in which was revealed to be Rob’s GF, which was interesting. Anyway, at the end of the day, well … night, we went to a nightclub and yeh rocked out! Although just to let y’all know, when you rock out in a nightclub after a few, you really are just walking around, its amazing, recorded footage can sometimes prove this. Anyway, when the nightclub was closing it became apparent, that I wouldn’t have much sleep for college the next day, Ben (not me) was wasted, and it wasn’t really too bad of a night so err… yeh!
One thing that revealed I’d had a few, was me going to college an hour early, which was rather annoying to say the least.
Here’s a very very very small review of the Vampires Assistant
Vampires Assistant : 

Things happening in the RKUK World
I’ll be doing a Windows 7 Ultimate review tomorrow after using it as my primary operating system for a week, back on OSX now which I still feel better with myself.
I’ve decided to resume my work on TechnoBuffalo and would appreciate it if people viewed atleast my profile on TechnoBuffalo, even though all content on their is actually in this blog. Link at the bottom of this blog.
Selection 18 was added yesterday, 76 was released this week too. I’ll be adding up to Selection 20 in November, then Selections 27, 28 and 29 as they all contain Christmas songs. I’ll be filling the gap between Selection 21-26 and continuing to eventually add all Selection DVDs online in 2010.

But thats all for now, like I mentioned a Windows 7 Ultimate review is coming soon and will also be, like all my tech related blogs be on my TechnoBuffalo page too.

TechnoBuffalo Link : http://www.technobuffalo.com/BenAtRKUK

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

Blog Saturday 24th October 2009

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I’m fresh from just doing the X-Factor tweeting and thanks to all the people who have @’d me with feedback from the show, anyway back to the blog, and may I just say what is wrong with me a lately, I haven’t been writing much blog recently have I, and ya know what the excuse is, well, I don’t know to be honest why, well I was gonna write about most of what I am today on Thursday but I had to finish off an assignment for college and didn’t on Friday for some reason so now is the time, yeah!

New Desk
Finally got one, and its awesome, normally my blogs are delayed due to me having to use the laptop to type with as it was impossible to type on the old one, but this new one is perfectO. On an unrelated note I keep forgetting I’ve got a drink, I mean a pints lasted over an hour and half, whats going on there, anyway, back to the story. The desk is wooden “touch wood”, … which means its sleek and I don’t particularly have to use a mouse mat, even though I spent all of the last couple of months promoting the RKUK one. So, yeh top marks for the desk, oh and not to leave the chair out either, you are as well awesome, well, y know, its a chair, but I better praise it or else it will collapse and I will die, you’re awesome chair … really … yes you are!

Random Trip to White Rose leading to new RKUK Videos in 2010

You may have seen the above image around, basically this is the new RKUK Promo, promoting the big change in videos on 2010, you maybe thinking, ‘Ben, didn’t you have one for 2009?’, well … no, actually, all we promised was further work on stuff we we’re working on, which we did and have been doing mostly behind the scenes as I will now explain.
On Wednesday, or it might have been Tuesday, anyway, me, Rob and his brother James went on a random trip to White Rose, why, well because Rob wanted to travel all the way their to get something he could of got in every shop we passed on the way their, anyway, turned out OK to be honest, nothing that out of the usual, we arrived closed to closing time, I had McDonnalds, which may I say are waaaay better than the ones in Dewsbury, and that was it really, got home and that was that.
Or was it, don’t know why I made that sound epic, but anyway, I had a very reassuring conversation with Rob about the future of RKUK Videos which was very good and I’ll give you the low down of what to expect in 2010. Me and Rob, or individually sometimes will be doing a whole lot more video updates to give you a closer look at what we’re doing, we’ll be doing a hell load of RKUK Live Shows, this may be later on in 2010, we’re talking Q3 time their, but I’ll be doing behind the scenes stuff on that, as well as, well, more videos and more better videos as well. We’re going to work hard on editing videos to make them not only be better but look better, as well as obviously improving the content, and of course in 2010 we’re going to put all our behind the scenes plans into motion, to watch out!

FaceBook Update

FaceBook have recently taken yet another update to their social networking site, which is yes annoying but if you ask me, updating something which makes it better is welcome everywhere, and I can’t see why FaceBook is an exception, I personally like switching from Live Feed to News Feed, difference being, News Feed shows all your friends latest posts, whilst Live Feed shows all feeds based on date of been added. So, for me atleast, I don’t mind it.

Microsoft Store’s coming!

In the early 90s Apple introduced the best easiest way to get a Mac, as that was all Apple made back then, a physical store, which of cause now you can use to experience the iPod and iPhone amongst all other Apple products, to me it’s more of an Apple Aquarium, no store compares to it. When the rumours started brewing on the possible Microsoft Store, I was thinking, why? Why, because Windows based machines are in every shop that sells computers, apart from Apple Stores, for obvious reasons, and the X-Box isn’t hard to find either, then it hit me … ZUNE! I think Microsoft are planning to make the Zune more well known by letting people check out the product which many people have looked at, and lets face it none have been that attractive so far until the latest Zune HD, which may I just say is only HD when plugged into a HD TV. But its a reality folks, Microsoft have confirmed they will start making stores in the US, and I expect them to be all over soon enough, but here’s the ‘taking the **** part of the story’, many Apple Store employees have been said to have been offered jobs in Microsoft Stores when they come and will get better pay, ooo, and to add to that Microsoft have plotted some Microsoft Stores directly next to Apple Stores, ironically on the left of the Apple Stores perfectly in position of where Apple put the PC and Mac in their ‘GetAMac’ ads. This is a dirty trick put on Microsoft, but I suppose based on the stocks, Microsoft are down alot compared to last year, whilst Apple report another record breaking year, and quarter, you’ve to do something haven’t ya.

Holiday Season
Yes, its here again, yes maybe only for a week, but its the holiday season and to celebrate this time we’ll be adding 6 Selection DVDs onto RKUK Media through the week, Selection 18, 19 , 20, 21, 22 and releasing the new Selection 76 at the end of the week, so yeh!

But thats all captivating <<what? at the moment, E-Ya Later

Ben

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Apple Random Mac Update October 2009 – New iMacs, MacBook and Mac Mini Update and more…!

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In a way we all knew this was coming, if your a Apple fan you would have known about the recent, store not open, then open, then not, which says to me, we’ve new products we’re just planning where to put them … and I was right. Just have a look at these beasts that have arrived.

New iMacs

Just look at the size of that beast, oh yes, gone are the 20″ and 24″ iMacs that have dominated the Mac desktop we all love, now there’s a 21.5″ and a massive 27″, yes I said 27 inch!!!
The 21.5″ version of the iMac has a full-HD display supporting 1920×1080, but unfortunately none of the new Apple desktop updates include Blu-Ray yet. The 27″ beast has screen resolution of a beasty size too, supporting 2560×1440 which is huge!
So, they’re a bit bigger nothing else, right? Wrong! OK, well appearance aside and if only one was in a room you could probably mistake an old 20″ for the new 21.5″, but you could never mistake the 27″ for obvious reasons! Appearance wise they’ve only two differences, the back of the iMacs is now metal instead of plastic, and the glass surrounding for the displays now goes all the way to the edge rather than making a oval-like rectangle, that alone will be the only thing that will probably set them apart.
Now I mentioned earlier that they were beasts and the beastiality just keeps on coming, all iMacs now come standard with 4GB DDR3 RAM, 3.06Ghz processors … oh, erm, apart from one, the top-range iMac debuts with Intel i5 and i7 Quad Core which can be configured up to 2.8Ghz, nice! They can be upped now to 2TB of storage, or a 256GB SSD, and a wopping 16GB DDR3 RAM, which means they are screamers like hell, and before you give us beef about “Well PCs only can use up to 3.5GB of RAM”, yeh, PCs not Macs, as you know Macs are 64-bit. Yes I know you can get 64-bit versions of Windows but hell is compatibility bad. And it seems that Apple are leaving NVIDIA for a while and back to supporting ATI graphics, the new iMacs, apart from the base with the NVIDIA 9400M, they all have ATI graphics cards either at 256MB or 512MB, which can only be a good thing.
So, thats the main big guy, literally, to all the updates, the all new iMac with the all new awesome display.
Apple iMac

All new Magic Mouse & Apple Mouse

I know what you’re thinking, nice piece of aluminium, but no thats a mouse, and a very interesting one indeed it is, you remember, waaay back it seems now when Apple introduced the new trackpads for the Aluminium MacBook, well now its in a mouse, a mouse with no buttons what so ever, just … that. It’s pretty amazing and you have to watch the tour video, it needs to be seen to be believed. Basically it clicks when your hand clicks, it scrolls when your fingers scroll, it zooms if you pinch in and out on the mouse, its almost freeky, but my god do I want one, if your also wanting the beasty iMac, the Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard we’re all used to comes with it as default. Oh, and Apple Mouse is the new name for the Apple Mighty Mouse after they lost the legal battle, the wired version is the only one still selling as the Magic Mouse is only in wireless form over Bluetooth.
Apple Magic Mouse

Mac Mini Spec Bumps

Remember the time when Apple seemed to have forgotten about the Mac Mini and it was nearly a year untouched, y’know it probably was a year or so, well good news to know they’re focusing on it alot now, the Mac Mini is now a mini powerhouse, with this update everything is X2, oh yes!
Their is for a start now 3 Mac Mini standard configs, a 2.26Ghz 160GB version, a 2.53Ghz 320GB version, both of these can be configured with upto 4GB DDR3, 500GB of hard drive.
But here’s a first for a Mac Mini, the 3rd config is a Snow Leopard Server version which is priced the same as the MacBook, and features the top configs and comes with Snow Leopard Server, and you can config server tools, but one thing which is interesting is how a MacBook Air Superdrive works in a Mac Mini, hmm, well thats because the server version of the Mac Mini doesn’t have a disc drive so that may soon be a standard configuration in the future if a disc drive is required, unless you’ve got one hanging around obviously!
Find out more in the links below;
Apple Mac Mini / Apple Mac Mini Server

New MacBook

Yes, its still plastic, Yes, you can still replace the battery, Yes, its white, so whats new, well let me tell you! The MacBook believe it or not still uses the unibody enclosure method but with plastic. The battery is still replaceable but still performs amazingly with reported 7 hours of life, pretty much double the previous 2005 model. Its also a lot thinner, has the new trackpad, making the MacBook Air the only Mac now with a button click mouse.
It also now comes with 250GB of storage for £799, yes for some reason its gone up in the UK but still the good ol’ $999 in the US, how annoying, and the annoying stuff doesn’t stop their, no firewire! Arrgghhh it’s happening again!
On a good note its finally got DDR3 RAM, up to 4GB, and 500GB of Hard Drive, the rest spec wise is the same, but the new design is a pretty sleek add on. Just a pity you’ve now got the same ports as the old aluminium MacBook, well, actually no, you don’t have audio-in, but you still have audio-out, but whats going on there!

New Remote Design …

There’s always one isn’t their, what the hell is that, it looks pretty much disgusting, sorry Apple but that does nothing for me, in fact I’ll be going on E-Bay and getting the old design if I need a remote thank you, ughh! The new remote is compatible with all Macs from 2005 or later, basically every MacBook ever, Intel Desktops.
New Apple Remote

Sorry we had to end on that awful ending to what started beasty and awesome, I’m sorry but what is that remote! Anyway E-Ya Later.

Ben

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Blog Friday 2nd October 2009 – Single, Olympics 2016, iPhone on 3 networks and more!

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Welcome to the life of a guy who can’t have a decent relationship over the period of what, a day, which lets be frank is longer than a lot previously to be honest, but ya know what I’m still happy, to be honest you should always leave a relationship with a positive attitude, I mean lets be honest I’m not yet the age to be thinking about a lifetime relationship so its time for a bit of fun and I had that with Lucy, yes I found out her name, woo! All in all I had a great week simply because of that, well, another’s coming up … yeh right, but ya know what, if I can say anything is that I was for one not expecting it, and the first face I pulled to her probably didn’t give her a good impression, but that toast was burned so I’ve decided to blame the canteen staff at Dewsbury College for me been yet again single, Damn Crows … Damn Canteen Staff … yeh doesn’t have the same ring to it, but it’s gonna have to do!

Olympics 2016

So, where not even set in the UK for 2012, but it was announced today that the 2016 olympics will take place in ‘Rio’ in Brazil, just thought I’d inform you with that valuable information!


If you hadn’t guessed from the images, O2 will no longer be the only network in the UK to have the iPhone, from the end of 2009, Orange UK will join the crowd, and then in early 2010 Vodafone UK will also join the clan! So, when the next iPhone comes out you’ll have more choice than ever before! Now, they are many things you need to consider here, and thats that Orange, out of the three has the best 3G (overall) reception which can only be a plus, but Vodafone was the first of the three to get 3G in the first place so they are probably more experienced, oo I don’t know what to do! The next iPhone will have three networks to choose from, which for us Brits is too much to think about, although I’ve always had the best experiences with Vodafone overall based on customer support etc, plus I still have a SIM with possibly the easiest number to remember ever on Vodafone, so next year I may be changing networks and still having an iPhone, oo how exciting!
What about you, leave a comment below if your in the pickle I am about the iPhone network deal!

Anyway that’s ya lot this week, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

Blog Monday 28th September 2009 – Quite a nice Monday really!

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Now I am what you could call an opposite to everything, what do I mean, well, caffeine makes me wake up rather than tired, that sorta thing, and today I proved another one of those things is correct. Have you heard the term shattered glass brings bad luck, or is it just mirrors, hmm, lets not ruin the moment, anyway well after I shattered glass this morning (a pint glass) I had quite an alright Monday to be honest, which is rare!
Well I’m gonna be honest with ya, it didn’t start that woopty-du, but was on time but took longer than me walking which was just great, then I went in to the wrong room for some reason when I got to college, but then came break! I’d made sure I had enough for some awesome toastness and all, so I got some toast, and it mustn’t of been, what, five minutes and this lass just sat on my table, which was empty by the way sob sob, she actually asked if I could get internet on my phone, in which obviously you can its an iPhone (soon to be available on both O2 and Orange in the UK by the way) then she set the record straight that that wasn’t why she came, it was that she err… yeh, which is where we get to the biggest problem between me and girls! Its quite a long story but I’ll snipit it down a bit! Basically when you’ve had the bad luck I’ve had you can never tell if someones taking the piss or literally interested and with a persōner and appearance like mine ya know ya kinda go for the taking the piss option most of the time, which no doubt has lost me a few in the past. But anyway we got talking and what not and before ya know it we’re trading numbers, which was good until I forgot to put my phone on silent in the next lesson when she texted me! She’s got bright brunette hair, if thats possible, well I know it is, but err yeh! Yeh, so bright brunette and geoorrrrrgggeoouuusss!!!! (Little Britain voice) >YT LINK<
I got asked “am I going out with her?”, well to be honest I haven’t got a clue, its early days mind, got her number, she’s got mine but you know the most annoying thing ever, I didn’t ask the most simplest thing in the f**king world, out of all this I don’t even know her name! Yes, yes, yes, stop laughing, blimey ya can tell I’m an amateur at this!
Of course they’re is still the theory that it was a joke, unfortunately girls can be a**holes 69% of the time … sometimes more!
Speaking of girls a match on Tagged, added me on FaceBook and it turns out she lives in Heckmondwike, how weird, now I do know her name, which is Chloe, have you noticed how Chloe’s are always cute, well thats what I’ve found!

p.s To add to my luck I ordered Medium Fries in McDonnalds, got Large, get on, had that and my Lucozade (Jeromy Clarkson), which was all good. Then the last lesson got cancelled as all the computers stopped working so had an early finish, so in all not a bad day to be honest!

Any hoozle, Selection 74 is out anyway, plus 75 Preview, anyway Catch Yoes later!

Ben

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Blog Saturday 26th September 2009 – 2 Weeks of College, IKEA Trolley, Selection 74 and more!

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Can you believe its nearly an entire month since I did a personal blog, I’m telling ya that is a record, something which I think needs to stop now, one, so it’ll be easy to beat it again! No, not really, but ya know, its been a while! Since my previous blog I’ve been chased by a trolley whilst visiting IKEA, I’ve started my college course and just ended the second week and, no thats about it!
To be honest that is why I haven’t had a blog for a long time, basically because where at that time of year again, the uneventful time, last year I had a lot to talk about in college and stuff as it was my first real experience out-of-school life, but now its kinda the same and rather uneventful to be honest, which lets face it, isn’t that fun!

College Life
College this year has been completely different, in a good way … kinda, in a bad way … also kinda! No, to be honest its kinda been alright to be honest, the course is at its peak so nothing is happening at the moment, but may I just say that merging Dewsbury and Huddersfield into Kirkless College has been possibly the worst decision thats ever been made, seriously every single thing has become around 90% worst, seriously, to start with, the PCs, whilst they are PCs last year they performed to par last year, now they’re connected to the sh**est network ever, which in turn makes all the computers unresponsive and laggy, which is just brilliant eh! So, first things first, get rid of that merge, their ya go, I’ve fixed the issue!

IKEA – The Chase
Well, like we always do, but this time with the addition of Ben, me and Rob went, sorry, walked to IKEA again, which if ya don’t know is what anyone would consider a car journey away from where I live, to be honest I was rather happy to be honest we had quite a laugh which got more unusual when we first, almost got locked in a petrol station and after having a bit of fun with a Shopping trolley, then got chased by it, yes you read right, me, Rob and Ben have been chased by a shopping trolley, quite something to tell the grandkids yes! Then found out IKEA was closed, so walked home where we got shouted by drunks and saw a dead cat, so yeh, quite a usual night out then!

Oh, and Selection 74 is out, I struggled to get Mr Hudson song, so I had to do a deal with Mercury Records which was kinda strange!

Well, lets hope it gets a bit more eventful in the coming days!
That’s all for now folkeys <<What?, anyway, E-Ya Later!

Ben

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