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3 mifi Review
Oct 5, 2009 13:25 - 1 Comment
For a number of years now I have been using mobile broadband with my laptop using a usb dongle. I have taken service from mobile provider 3 and it has been a pretty reliable and cost effective way of getting web access when I have been out and about. My current contract gives me 1gb [...]
Netbook Memory Upgrade
Aug 22, 2009 16:38 - 0 Comments
I decided this week that I would make the only simple upgrade to my netbook and double the memory it has in it from 1gb to 2gb. For this I bought a stick of memory from the ever reliable Crucial for £12.64 delivered. It arrived within a couple of days of ordering and took less [...]
Simple Mind for the iPhone
Jul 21, 2009 15:43 - 0 Comments
I attended an event today, hosted by the Thames Valley Innovation and Growth team, on developing iPhone applications. A couple of Apple employees were on hand to walk us through the process and answer any questions. When I have attended these sort of events in the past I have tended to take notes in my [...]
iPhone 3.1 Software
Jul 1, 2009 14:31 - 0 Comments
Well that was quick. The iPhone 3.0 OS has been out less than a month and already the next version is released to beta testers. There is a slew of changes that have been identified so far and to be honest pretty much all of them are of only passing interest. With the exception of [...]
Netbook v3
Jun 29, 2009 18:20 - 0 Comments
So I am in the market for a new Netbook (some would ask when am I not in the market for a new gadget). This would be my third, therefore I think that you can safely say that I am a convert to the form factor. There have already been two iterations of Netbooks. Version [...]
UK Folding Plug
Jun 26, 2009 10:50 - 0 Comments
Those people that live in the UK or have ever travelled here will know that we can proudly boast one thing that is bigger than anything offered by the USA and that is our plug – it is huge! If you have travelled with any electrical equipment that requires the UK adaptor then you will [...]
Moblin – the Netbook OS
Jun 17, 2009 18:12 - 0 Comments
I have been playing around with a new OS interface that is optimised for netbooks and specifically those running on the Intel Atom processor, which is most of them. Moblin has a simplistic and very appealing interface that quickly gives you access to all the functionality that you are likely to need from a Netbook. [...]
Apple iPhone Economics
Jun 12, 2009 8:54 - 0 Comments
So the waiting is finally over the new iPhone has been announced and in a weeks time you could have one in your hands. Come the day of the announcement pretty much everything new about the device had leaked out and so there were little surprises: compass, tethering, video and MMS to name but a [...]
Netbook as a eReader
Jun 2, 2009 22:02 - 0 Comments
Always on the lookout for ways to extract the most from my Netbook and having eyed up the Sony’s eReader in Waterstones I thought I would see whether the former could act as the latter. eBooks are all the rage at the moment, particularly in the states where Amazon’s Kindle seems to be doing a [...]
Crunch Time for Internet Browsing
Apr 24, 2009 16:21 - 0 Comments
Browsing the web from my iPod Touch this morning I remembered the CrunchPad, Michael Arrington’s prototype connected device for web browsing. This is a flat, tablet like device, with only an on-screen keyboard and optimised for browsing the web. Having checked my mail, gone through the rss feeds that had come in over night, checked [...]
