Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
For many years I ran a desktop PC in my home office, and it was always on in order to provide various services to other machines scattered around the house. The one good thing about this arrangement was that the room was always warm in winter. After getting my NAS and Microserver I started paying […]
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Tags: always on, cool, desktop, docking, dual, energy, green, heat, laptop, Microserver, NAS, PC, quiet, quieter, screen, sleep, tablet, Thunderbolt, Ultrabase
No laptop, will travel
I’ve just returned from my third trip without a laptop – the longest so far, with a whole week in the US. Mostly this has worked out very well. Power to weight ratio Just like with fast cars/bikes, this is the key to success. I’m finding that the iPad 2 can make it through a […]
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Tags: bluetooth, Galaxy Tab, iPad, keyboard, laptop, tablet, travel
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
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 […]
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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 […]
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Tags: DNLA, DP-600, DP600, DS411J, Kiss, mount --bind, NAS, RAID, rc.local, symlink, Synology
Eyeballs not devices
Too many devices I seem to accumulated a proliferation of devices recently that want to have SIM cards in them for mobile data: Personal laptop (well actually a tablet, but not in the way that people use that label these days) Work laptop iPhone (not just data) Android phone (could be not just data, but […]
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Tags: 3, android, app, apps, Audible, contract, data, Galaxy Tab, iPad, mifi, mobile, payg, tariff, telco, Three, vodafone
More Android
This post will likely be trollbait for that special flavour of Apple fanbois and their anti equivalent… Weekend away I spent a most enjoyable weekend away at Maker Faire in Newcastle, and I took my iPhone 4 and the San Francisco (ZTE Blade) with me (along with my old Lenovo s10e netbook). The Blade made […]
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Tags: android, apple, firmware, Galaxy Tab, google, HSDPA, iPad, iphone, multiuser, root, tablet, Three, unlock, vodafone, ZTE Blade
Android Experimentation
When I started my new job I had two choices for mobile device – a company owned BlackBerry or buy my own iPhone and get company email using Good. I didn’t want to go back to having two phones in my pocket, which would have been necessary if I’d gone down the BlackBerry route (as […]
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Tags: 3G, android, Androot, clockwork, cyanogen, Froyo, hotspot, mifi, Orange, recovery manager, root, San Francisco, unlock, wifi, ZTE Blade
Every hotel room should have one
Last week I was very impressed to find this at my desk in the Westin Jersey City: and yesterday I found this in the Crowne Plaza Zurich: NB The D-Link pocket WiFi router being powered by the media bar USB. For some odd reason this hotel doesn’t have WiFi (but thankfully it does have free […]
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Tags: audio, HDMI, hotel, screen, tv, USB, VGA, video
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