Whilst I’m very happy with my new Mac Book Pro, there are a couple of longer term gripes. Firstly, the heat. Everybody has heard about it, but it beggars belief at times that it can get quite so hot when doing CPU intensive operations. I generally try and keep it off our new wood floor when, [...]
OK, this isn’t a gadget per se, but it has proved to be really rather funky, and solved a dilemma I’ve had over the last few years quite nicely. The problem I have is I find that video rental shops are altogether rather depressing places, that they rarely have the films I want to watch in [...]
I’ve just added a section on the side bar of my diary, which shows my most recent “Techie Musings” posts over on the right hand side. Hopefully you might see something of interest, even if you’re not a techie like me! The latest in my recent series of New Gadgets, then, is my shiny new [...]
Well, I’ve had my 2Ghz MacBook Pro (MBP) for a day now, and I’m certainly pleased with the new machine, but I’m also slightly concerned about two problems that I’ve noticed. So, given I’m up early and playing with it, I thought it’d be good to put down some of my initial impressions. It’s more of [...]
For the last couple of years, I’ve been quietly using a PVR (Hard disk based Video Recorder) that plugged into my G4 Powerbook (See my review here. Unfortunately, it suffered from the problem that it required my laptop to be both next to the tv, plugged in to the EyeTV, with sufficient space. It also [...]
I’ve decided to make a few posts going on at the moment about some new gadgets I’ve got, or will be getting, my mitts on in the last few weeks and months, and this latest one is certainly more technical than personal, hence it’s posting here. I’m talking about the devolo MicroLink dLAN powerline Ethernet adaptor, [...]
One of the projects I’ve had “on the go” for far too long, has been putting new skirting boards in downstairs, since the old ones were pulled off as part of the plastering work we had done in March (it was that long ago! eeek!). My first attempt at cutting the joins resulted in dangerously high [...]
