After Nokia’s decision to pretty much dump Symbian and drop MeeGo I was starting to think about alternative suppliers for my phones. This is an incredibly hard decision as I have been a Nokia customer since 1996. The 3 times I have used an alternate phone have either been disasters or have run side by [...]
The kindle has finally come to the UK and has already failed for me. I was looking at getting a Kindle a long time ago and finally gave up waiting and went out and bought the Sony. Boy am I relieved I did. There are more than 4 reasons why I am glad I got [...]
Just looking around for more ebooks to download and found this (Another Quarter of Triple-Digit Growth for E-Books) But on the downside I found Random Books the UK’s biggest Publisher has its own ebook site at http://rbooks.co.uk. Thats not bad news until you see that they are charging £17.08 for the new Dan Brown book [...]
I have had my Sony eBook for some time now and am getting more and more frustrated. Pretty much all the books I want to download are either not available or they are charging rediculous sums for. For instance how can publishers justify £16.38 for Gone tomorrow by Lee Childs This is as much as [...]
Adding currency conversion to your iPod touch or iPhone
My data harddrive was full so I added a new hard drive. Unfortunately the iTunes library wouldn’t show up. Everytime I tried to reset the path it kept coming back with a blank library. I found out how to choose a different iTunes Library file It’s simply a case of holding down the Shift key [...]
Apple has announced that all Music will be DRM free from now on (Cheer), however you have to pay to “upgrade” your existing DRM Blighted downloads. More news here. And the cost of going DRM free The BBC iPlayer may be going HD shortly, but, they may also start charging?
Going back to the 80′s Sinclair/Commodore/Atari (ST) format the Asus Keyboard PC has all the gubbins of a PC built into a nice looking keyboard. It includes a small LCD screen to the right of the keyboard that can display either a windows desktop or control panel. More details can be found here It looks [...]
Finally a full qwerty keyboard on a Nokia phone that can fit in your pocket…
When you work across multiple computers keeping track of your data can be a real nuisance. I have a main desktop computer, and large laptop and a small laptop. I use the large desktop when at home/office, The large laptop goes with me when I am going anywhere for more than a day. The little [...]