Entries from February 2008 ↓

The Xbox 360 Elite laptop

From the guy who has modded almost every console ever into a portable device comes the most epic thing I have seen this week.

A laptop/portable Xbox 360 complete with keyboard and webcam.

I wonder if he has a museum filled with his creations or if he sells his one off creations for a pretty penny.

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Top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks

Today I found an awesome article/guide to BitTorrent. The most interesting thing for me was finding out that software like Miro can be used in conjunction with sites like tvrss.com to automatically download new TV shows shortly after they have gone over the air.

Previously I had thought Miro was basically just a pretty vodcast managment client however it appears that I was wrong.

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Epic WP Theme Comming Soon

As you may have noticed, the theme of this site looks fairly plain. Thats because I am still working on a new WordPress theme that will do this site justice.

The current theme is called ZimpleZa theme, the reason I am using it is because its such a basic theme and is an easy starting point for someone like me who has not had much experience with making WordPress themes from scratch.

In the mean time I will try to post some content regardless of the state of the theme.

Welcome to Almost Epic Dot Com

Almost Epic Dot Com is the new official blog of Jonathan Haslett.

I am a multimedia designer and all round internet enthusiast.

I plan to use this blog to jot down my thoughts about web design, internet culture, media and general all round epic stuff.

My old and now discontinued blog can be found at forever_n00b.livejournal.com.