Archive for May, 2011
iPad 2 versus Samsung Galaxy Tab
I ordered an iPad 2 on the day that they were made available in the US (and had it shipped to a friend I was visiting a few weeks later). A few days later I got a note from one of the R&D guys at work saying that a Galaxy Tab was on its way [...]
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Tags: apple, Galaxy Tab, iPad, IPad 2, review, Samsung, Swype
My Galaxy Tab came from the US, and is AT&T branded. As soon as I got it I installed a stock firmware as I didn’t want to live with the various restrictions AT&T had imposed (and I also wanted to use a UK data plan). For my holiday in the US I wanted to get [...]
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Tags: android, APN, AT&T, broadband, Galaxy Tab, tablet, unlocked
Review – HP Microserver
This might well be the bargain of the decade, and I must say that I’m quite cross that the news took so long to find me. A couple of days after I bought my NAS a friend tweeted: I asked Leslie how it was so cheap. It turns out that the (ex VAT) price was [...]
Filed under: did_do_better, review, technology | 14 Comments
Tags: HP, Microserver, review
Playing DivX and Xvid on iPad
One of the great frustrations for me with my iOS devices (and PSPs before them) has been the need for transcoding of video files before watching. This was always a time (and CPU) consuming and fiddly process, and for some insane reason the files often ended up being larger than the original. When I got [...]
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Tags: avi, AVPlayerHD, divx, iPad, mkv, Xvid
For quite some time I’ve run my main PC as a hybrid workstation and server. When I built the machine (over 5 years ago) I got a fancy motherboard with onboard RAID5 and popped in 4x300GB drives. It got a mid life upgrade to 4x750GB (which gave a usable 2TB volume), but that was bursting [...]
Filed under: howto, review, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: DNLA, DP-600, DP600, DS411J, Kiss, mount --bind, NAS, RAID, rc.local, symlink, Synology
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