Knowing my history with computers and data, I made the decision in 2007 to invest in an external drive. This was not an off the shelf consumer device of course, I purchased a 320gb drive from eBuyer and IDE to USB caddy from eBay. Now perhaps I should have had hindsight to future proof this […]
Touchscreen Paradise
Sharing a laptop with my other half is not that bad actually, even as a new age internet geek, I have much better self control to regulate my time online than say ten to fifteen years ago. Plus, I always have my mobile, if there was something urgent I needed to check on Twitter, Facebook […]
Gold Dust
I have been in the market for at tablet computer for some time but have been waiting for my perfect moment to invest. However the Gods were consipring against me just before Christmas, with every high street (and most online) retailers out of stock of the Nexus 7. It was going to take me a […]
Hacking MP3 Players
Any true geek (or is the more fashionable modern term – nerd) will want to hack his/her gadgets – whatever they may be! I am no exception to this rule but still find myself shocked at the possibilities of the open source community to come up with ingenious options for a range of rather limited […]
Goodbye XBMC! You shall be missed!
I had never heard of the Freecycle online service, although I knew some sort of community based on giving away your old items existed. It was my sister, Samantha that mentioned the website to me back in April. I had just moved into my flat in Slough and had an old TV combi unit to […]
Life Changing Apps
If there are “life changing” apps in the Android Marketplace, I have not found them yet! However the Google Mobile Operating System is going from strength to strength! There are some excellent apps out there and I get surprised by all the great little touches in the apps I have already downloaded. For example Google […]
The Quickie Divorce
My HTC Desire arrived this afternoon. Signaling my divorce from Nokia after a solid twelve year marriage. I knew eventually there would come a time when I would stop purchasing Nokia mobile phones, but I never thought the end would come in such circumstances. My first leap into the app market with a fully featured […]
Mod chip? Where we’re going, we don’t need no, mod chip!
I have always wanted to have a modified console. This steps to the original Playstation console. I will have to be liberal with the truth here, as I do not wish to find myself with legal writs placed at my door. An old friend, had set-up a site on-line, carrying out the job of modifying […]
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