It’s rare for me to buy things for myself, but occasionally eBay presents me with a bargain that I can’t resist. A couple of weeks ago it was a brand new ThinkPad x230 (for Tessa), still my favourite laptop, for only £200, it’s as light as the very best machines...
In a stunning display of innovation and polish Microsoft demonstrated it’s new devices strategy yesterday. It’s already shown it’s almost brutal determination to establish itself as a device agnostic services business over the past year, delivering apps on competing platforms ahead of it’s own, time and time again and Azure...
For context I’m reviewing the 6S after being the restrained owner of a 4S for several years. I’ve resisted upgrading each year, because I’ve been waiting for sufficient innovation to finally creep out of Cupertino. That point has finally arrived, a great camera, enough CPU power to handle my large...
Update: sadly I decided to return this little beauty to Amazon today because of reliability problems. In almost all ways it had proved to be excellent, albeit a little slow, but every couple of days the mouse, keyboard or both would stop working and it would need to be restarted....
I’ve been waiting for the iPad Pro for over a decade, a truly magazine sized, laptop replacement and sketch pad; a device for browsing those coffee top table books that I rarely look at now. The original iPad was too small and too heavy and didn’t work as a sketch...
I decided to cycle straight to Cleveleys today on the basis that if I delayed and visit a cafe in St Annes first I wouldn’t bother as I’m quite weary today. In the end I got to Blackpool before I had to take a rest stop at Caffe Nero, not...
I’m always losing my Fitbit one activity tracker. It normally lives clipped onto my belt, but it gets caught on stuff and yanked off every few months. Usually I have a good idea of when this might have happened and track it down manually, but yesterday it was really lost. ...
For most of my working life I’ve used the same IT for work and personal use. This might seem a bit strange to some people but it’s not for me, work and personal life have always been a blended experience for me. I’ve always travelled a lot with work and...
This is the Seventh in my series of posts looking back on my first 10 blog posts. This post describes a problem that’s thankfully been solved in my life: I have 2 pocket PC’s, a Blackberry and a Tablet, all of them play music but I also have a Creative...
This is the fifth in my series of posts looking back on my first 10 blog posts. It seems that even 11 years ago I was starting to get concerned over the number of gadgets that had gradually crept into my life, here’s the full post: I have so many...