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After much deliberation, testing alternatives, sampling various sub-cultures, and generally trying to avoid fanboi-ism, I purchased an iPhone 4. I rejected Android, because most people I know who use Android spend half their time finding the latest ROM, much of … Continue reading
Wales
The last bank holiday weekend, we headed over to North Wales again. I loved it last time, wandering mostly around Snowdonia, with a bit of pottering around other interesting places, and we stayed in a rather lovely manor. This time, … Continue reading
Reader of Books
A few weeks ago, I was thinking of getting a handheld eBook reader, and I saw a couple of Sony models owned by colleagues at work. The PRS 505 is Sony’s early (first?) effort, but it was, well, old and … Continue reading
Mobile confusion
I am one of those people that choose Mac but have to work with Windows and this has (loosely) extended to my mobile life. I choose iPhone, but also carry a Raspberry. Sometimes this causes some confusion, e.g. trying to take a … Continue reading
New Graphics Card
As my MacPro was a bit poorly, I installed a new graphics card last night. It’s an NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT. Installation was easy (everything is easy inside a MacPro). The card itself is about half the size of the outgoing … Continue reading
MacPro health
My MacPro has been getting very noisy and a little unstable recently. It’s an early (2006) model with a mere 4 Xenon cores of just 2.66ghz but still jolly splendid. I’ve tracked the problem down to the graphics card, and … Continue reading
Windows 7 beta
For a giggle, I thought I’d try this out. I downloaded both the 32- and 64-bit versions to run in VMWare on my Mac, however, looking at the downloaded DVD images, I couldn’t tell which was which. Only one worked, … Continue reading
Mini off life support
My Mac Mini had drive trouble some time ago and I ‘fixed’ it by booting off an external drive. This has been most acceptable for the last 15 months or so, but recently, with a rejig of media stuff in the living room, … Continue reading
Cutting edge (ish)
Five or six years ago, we had fairly cutting edge A/V set-up in our living room. A brand new (and v expensive) Panasonic 42″ plasma panel – one of the best panels money could buy at the time, hooked up … Continue reading
Finally upgraded
I finally upgraded my iPhone to an iPhone 3G this weekend. Or more precisely, I bought my lovely wife an iPhone 3G and thought I might as well get one for myself at the same time To keep things simple, … Continue reading
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