Today at work during my lunch break I quite fancied a quick go on Mario Kart DS, I have been quite addicted to Mario Kart Wii recently, especially the online play and having a DS and copy of MK at work the only thing I was lacking was a WiFi connection.

I take my Mac to work and connect to the Internet via a wired LAN connection, this leaves my Mac's WiFi card free to use for sharing my Internet connection with my DS. There are a few pitfall's that one can encounter when doing this so this news post is just a quick guide written in the hope that someone else may stumble upon it and find it useful.

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Just in case you were bored, I thought I'd have a go at making you even more so. Here's a picture of my desktop at work.



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I have read a lot of negative comments about Audible.co.uk customer support, however I was most impressed with the support. I joined Audible.co.uk only a few weeks ago, paying a free £7.99 a month with basically entitles me to the download of one audio book a month. At highest quality the audio books sound like 48-96Kbps mono MP3, I think this should be higher at least 160Kbps and stereo is a must but I can live with it for spoken word.

Yesterday I purchased a learning Japanese audio book (not the first) with an unconventional method of learning produced by earwormslearning.com. Basically the idea is to lay down some words and phrases to music. Being one who likes to try new things I thought I'd give it a go. I foolishly thought a music based audio book would be encoded in higher quality, nope, still mono even. I couldn't stand this, I managed to listen to some of the book but simply could not stand it. I sent an email to Audible.co.uk asking about the chance of a refund and explaining my reasoning. To be perfectly honest I didn't expect anything to come of this, just thought I make my opinion heard. Well to my surprise they did indeed refund me and contacted me only 20 minutes after I emailed them

Can't complain about that at all! I will now buy the CD from the earwormslearning.com site which is more expensive but has the added benefit of being DRM free and, one should hope, CD quality

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