Gadgets of one form or another have been a constant in my life, I’m drawn to them in a way that I can’t fully explain, but there’s a constant niggling voice in my head encouraging me to give in to my desire to buy, to tweak, to enhance, to play....
This post is part of a series that makes up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. A couple of years ago Clayton Christensen, one of the foremost researchers into innovation in business, wrote a book titled How Will You...
This is my first post from the iPad using the word press applications, no wysiwyg formatting unfortunately, so I’m not sure what it will look like. Anyway here goes. The good — the hardware is wonderful, an excellent screen, very responsive Touch, amazing battery life, easy to clean (using a...
My trustworthy Blackberry 8800 was upgraded to a Bold last week and after much anticipation I can definitely say it’s been a very worthwhile upgrade. I’ve made these notes which might help anyone considering or receiving a bold in the near future. Background I’ve previously been an enthusiastic user of...
Out of the box I had a few issues with my Thinkpad X60T running Vista: After a morning working by the beach the wireless network was often disabled when I plugged in at home, I needed to do a “Diagnose and repair” to re-enable it After a not so useful...
I’m always loosing my Blackberry, but fortunately I always manage to find it, normally by ringing it up. But I always worry that I will leave it on silent or it will be too far away to find by ear. Anyway there’s a solution it’s called berry locator, check it...
While I was at my in-laws this weekend I didn’t have broadband so I installed OnSpeed to improve performance of my GPRS connection. I have been pretty impressed, here are the main advantages: For me OnSpeed seems to compress data by an average of 3-4 times, of course OnSpeed claims...
I have had an excellent Minolta Dimage Z1 camera for a couple of years, but the 10X zoom makes it really heavy and awkward to carry so I tend not to take it with me. In particular there’s no way to carry it in the gadget pocket of my everyday...
My second hand Thinkpad X60 tablet arrived today via HireIT and eBay. Its an ex eval model and in perfect condition even though it was less than half price. Even better HireIt seem to give you whatever model they have available and in my case the spec was up-rated quite a...
Over the holidays I decided to give my ageing Treo 650 a tune up. I wanted to develop a more efficient workflow. Here’s what I came up with: I have my Treo on my desk all through the day, its a waste of space, so I decided that it would...