Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
I’ve written before about my trusty Lenovo s10e, which I’ve had for about a year now. Recently though I’ve been loving my little netbook a lot less, as the fan was making such an atrocious noise that people on the other side of my office were complaining. Sadly this seems to be a common problem. […]
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Tags: fan, fix, hack, lenovo, noisy, s10e
3 MiFi mini review redux
A little while ago I wrote about my 3 MiFi. To cut a long story short I wasn’t impressed, and rather wish that I had sent it back and got a refund. My mood wasn’t helped by the subsequent price drop of the PAYG package from £99 to £49 (albeit without 3 months of PAYG […]
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Tags: 3G, hotspot, mifi, mobile, review, wifi
iPod, eBook, dAllowance
‘Can I have an iPod Touch for my birthday?’ asked my five year old daughter yesterday (the birthday isn’t far away), ‘Susie has one, and she’s 6’. ‘No’, came my reply, ‘I gave you an iPod mini just a few weeks ago’. We’ve been going through a bit of an iPod upgrade cycle around the […]
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Tags: allowance, amazon, credit card, debit card, ebay, ebook, ipod, itunes, money, payments, paypal, pocket money
Techlust – Lenovo IdeaPad U1
I almost certainly won’t end up buying one of these, but it has the look of something that I’ve been hoping for since giving up my X60T tablet for my s10e netbook. I have missed the ability to draw stuff on the screen. That gap has kind of been filled now as Santa brought me […]
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Tags: netbook, tablet
Waving or drowning?
Earlier this year I gave a talk on cloud security at the e-Crime congress. One of the other speakers was John Suffolk, who when he wasn’t struggling with some very badly formatted PowerPoint [1] asked the audience ‘who in this room thinks they are keeping up with technology?’. I think I ruined his script a […]
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Tags: Classen's law, keeping up, Moore's law, technology
The network isn’t ubiquitous
and probably never will be. My brother has been moving house this week, which has caused him to spend a certain amount of time off net, and to get very angry with BT (though it all got sorted out in the end [1]). Sadly my suggestion to get a Vodafone 3G dongle doesn’t seem to […]
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Tags: 3G, BT, economics, network, network fallacies, telco, three strikes, wifi
Update (3 May 2010) – I’m getting increasingly sick of how often this machine fails to record things. Worse still I’ve even seen it say that it’s started to record something, but when I go to watch it there’s nothing in the list. Reliability is awful compared to when I first started using it. I’m […]
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Tags: dtr67320t, freeview, pace twin, PVR, sagem
I’m usually an aggressive early adopter of new gadgets, but I’ve not been able to bring myself to buy an e-book reader yet. This is mostly due to the DRM deployed by Amazon, Sony etc. and the consequences that has for how I would use the books and what would happen to them in the future. As […]
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Tags: DRM, e-book, e-reader, kindle, nook
Mini review – 3 MiFi
I had great hopes for MiFi. I was going to be like Pig-Pen from Peanuts, just with fewer flies and more connectivity. I would walk the earth with my own little bubble of Internet goodness. No more messing about with dongles for the netbook. My iPod Touch would become like an iPhone (just without voice). […]
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Tags: 3G, hotspot, mifi, mobile, review, wifi
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