I get annoyed at the branding of these new “LED” TV’s – they are not fundamentally new technology, they are simply LCD screens lit up via LEDs.
However it’s branded, it is brilliant!
What’s Good?
It is so extremely vibrant and bright that it makes our Panasonic LCD look very dull.
It only uses
We have a cool new cat accessory. It’s a battery powered microchip activated cat flap. It works extremely well and I like knowing that other cats can’t get in and eat Cypher’s food.
Actually, you are wrong – The internet does need another cat picture.
I have a new machine. He’s called “Butterfree”, he’s German and I rent him for £45 per month from http://www.hetzner.de/en:
Specs:
CPU: Intel i7-920 Quadcore incl. Hyper-Threading Technology.
RAM: 8 GB DDR3.
Disk: 2 x 750 GB SATA II (Software-RAID 1).
Features:
LAMP – Full root access.
24h Reset service via Webinterface – I already had to use this once due to [...]
Kix gave me a myth for my birthday (a Myth Box without the box). More specifically she gave me a motherboard, a ASUS P5N7A-VM which is special because it has a HDMI port for nice connectivity to a TV.
I looked around for quite a while to try to buy something non-Microsoft branded because I didn’t want to “feed the hand that bites us” but at the end of the day one has to be a bit pragmatic?
I highly recommend this keyboard – Everyone should upgrade from a standard keyboard because it’s not all [...]
This tiny box does two important jobs. Firstly it records any video source (as mp4 files) and secondly, it acts as a video jukebox (i.e. connects to the TV and can play video stored on a PC on the network). It’s a pretty useful gadget!
I’ve been ripping old VHS videos and archiving old camcorder cassette [...]
I grew to hate our bedroom Hi-Fi because it was so bright at night and also sometimes made an annoying buzz and have wanted to replace it for while. I used Ebay to sell the Legatto II for £190 and buy the Squeezebox Boom for £170 as a replacement.
The Boom doesn’t have as big a [...]
This laptop can be summed up in one word: “Cute”. It’s just perfect for traveling:
9 inch screen
Weights only 1KG
Solid-state disk drive (very bump/knock resistant)
Wi-Fi
Built in camera for Skyping
Card Reader so you can store holiday snaps.
I bought this laptop for two reasons, firstly to help plan our road trip as we went and secondly so I [...]
This quality half-terrabyte Western Digital external hard drive is to replace our now broken NAS drive. Instead of using a NAS drive we have created a Samba share on our server which we find more convenient.
This 2nd drive is for backing up our files using rsync to mirror our primary hard disk.
We map the [...]
Chloe’s company, Panasonic, have made the whole Thatcham mobile phone development site redundant and are giving the staff their PCs which I’m thinking of as a leaving present.
It is a Dell Optiplex GX270 which is a good upgrade but exactly the same form factor as the previous GX260 :
CPU: Pentium 4 3GHz
RAM: 1GB DDR SDRAM.
We [...]
I crashed poor Lance in a nasty high speed collision. I was driving down a duel-carriageway, came round the corner and saw the road was blocked with cars from a previous accident, couldn’t stop in time, went into a skid, spun 180 and crashed going backwards into a stationary van. There were 8 cars involved [...]
I feel sad that I’ve finally replaced my old PC which my dad gave me as a 21st birthday present. It was just too sluggish, even for browsing the web.
I bought a widescreen Sony Vaio. It’s interesting to compare the specs because it shows how much technology has advanced in the last 7 years:
Mesh (Elite [...]
One of the reasons for getting my Ameo instead of a normal mobile phone was so I could write my journal whilst on the coach to work. But the keyboard that comes with it turned out to be inadequate. So I got a replacement:
The HTC website for the Ameo has a link to a list [...]
We bought a Netgear aerial extension on Ebay because upstairs doesn’t get a reliable signal. But… It looks ridiculous:
Original Aerial
Custom Aerial
I measured the wireless signal strength on our two Squeezebox’s, one is in the room next to the router, the other is upstairs:
Original Aerial
Custom Aerial
Downstairs signal strength:
81%-83%
76%-80%
Upstairs signal strength:
44%-49%
56%-58%
So it seems to have a minor [...]
Our original Xbox (4 ½ years old now) has become too flaky, games crash and DVDs skip. We needed a DVD player and it’d be a shame to lose all our games so buying a new XBox makes sense. Halo 3 took any doubt out of the decision. I do feel suckered into the slick [...]
