Archive for June, 2010
Video distribution at home
I touched upon some time ago when I bought my new DVR. The question is how are we going to achieve distribution of video around the home when analogue TV goes away? The good old way I spent part of fathers day setting up distribution in my in law’s new place. They live in a [...]
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Tags: analogue, digital, distribution, freeview, redistribution, Sky, tv, video
Re-energising Pleo
When I first heard about Pleo I knew that I had to get one. My son is a huge dinosaur fan, and a toy robot baby Camarasaurus was sure to be a huge hit. I ended up ordering two ‘first hatch‘ Pleos in the hope that I could turn a quick profit selling on the [...]
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Tags: battery, LiPoly, NiMh, Pleo, UCube, UGobe
Excessive network?
Yesterday the kids got a hand me down TV from their grandparents, which caused me to do a bit of reconfiguration of things in their play room. The HomePlug adaptor in the garage had died a few weeks back, so I’d swapped it for the one connected to their little used X-Box 360. Anyway, to [...]
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Tags: adsl, HomePlug, network, router, switch
The MAC hullabaloo
Kim Cameron has had lots of interesting things to say over the past few days about the security and privacy implications of harvesting MAC addresses in the wake of Google being somewhat caught out with their activities in this area. Today though he has a piece where I think he’s crossed over the Chicken Little line. In [...]
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Tags: cardspace, information card, Kim Cameron, MAC, MACs, privacy, security, streetview, wifi
Mobile platforms
This is going to be one of those ‘to save me from repeating myself’ sort of blog posts, as I seem to have been frequently engaged in conversation recently about this topic. Apple Let’s start with the elephant in the room. Apple redefined the smartphone with the launch of the iPhone, and though I don’t [...]
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Tags: android, apple, blackberry, INQ, iPad, iphone, mobile, Nokia, Palm, RIM, telco, tethering, WebOS, Windows Mobile
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