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iPad Backing up – please wait.
Jul 20, 2010 16:49 - 1 Comment
Is your iPad taking forever to backup? Mine is. After several aborted attempts I finally got a full backup done taking a massive three hours and that was after I had deleted off some large apps. Three hours for a device that is less than half full.
Feeling that there had to be a solution to [...]
The Shocking Price of eBooks
Jun 30, 2010 8:02 - 4 Comments
So it seems that content producers still haven’t learnt the lessons from the music industry’s move from physical product to electronic equivalent. Below is a great example of how they just don’t get it.
Juliet Naked is the latest novel by Nick Hornby. I’ve read it (in paperback format) and it’s a good book and a [...]
Hands on with the iPad
Apr 23, 2010 15:11 - 1 Comment
So, yes, I know that the web has been full of this over the last few weeks (with only a minor diversion for the next iPhone) and I am late to the game but I only got my first opportunity to get my hands on an iPad today. To be fair there aren’t that many [...]
Rule 1: Don’t Call Your Product “Unbreakable” If It Is Not
Jan 12, 2010 13:36 - 0 Comments
My advice is never give a live demonstration if you can possibly help it and never, never, never claim a property that the product doesn’t actually possess. Advice that Sonim would have done well to have heeded before handing over their “unbreakable” mobile phone to a reporter from the BBC.
The reporter, Dan Simmons, [...]
Top tech of 2009
Jan 7, 2010 18:52 - 3 Comments
For the last few years Michael Arrington has been producing a list of the top tech that he has regularly used in each year and I thought this year I would give it a go. So this is the technology that I used day-in, day-out in 2009 and could not do without.
Google Chrome
A lot [...]
TweetNotebook
Dec 24, 2009 17:23 - 0 Comments
In what must be one of the greatest acts of egotistical self-indulgence a couple of weeks ago I ordered a TweetNotebook.
For those that aren’t familiar with it the TweetNotebook is a notebook with a random selection of your tweets printed at the bottom of each page and with your Twitter icon printed on the [...]
My “other” USB Key
Oct 7, 2009 9:17 - 0 Comments
Following on from yesterdays post the above is what I carried around before the “Key” key.
While it did have the advantage of being credit card sized and so would fit into my pocket and did have some sort of geeky street cred (or so I like to think), it was when I pulled it out [...]
USB Key Key
Oct 6, 2009 11:35 - 0 Comments
Yes it looks like an ordinary house key (well if you don’t look too closely) but in fact it is a USB memory stick cleverly disguised to look like a house key.
I don’t often have call for a memory stick these days but when you need one they are invaluable and to have one always [...]
FREETALK Everyman USB Headset for Skype
Aug 10, 2009 12:51 - 3 Comments
I have found myself using Skype more and more recently, particularly since some good friends have moved to Australia.
Over the years I have used a number of ways to make Skype calls. I have used the speaker and microphone on my netbook, a VoIPVoice Cyberphone-w handset and a Polycom Communicator.
The laptop only experience is [...]
Museum of Computing Re-opening
Jul 2, 2009 11:29 - 0 Comments
Last night I had the privilege to attend the opening of the Museum of Computing based in Swindon. Or should I say re-opening as the museum has actually been closed for a year while looking for new premises. Swindon Council have provided a place right next to the theatre and walking distance from the town [...]
