Media keyboard (Logitech K400)
This keyboard with integrated mouse only came out this week in the UK and I’ve no idea why it took so long because I would have thought anyone with a media center TV were crying out for this form factor. I highly recommend it as a remote control for a MythTV box. It’s a good […]
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 LP Low Profile CPU Cooler
I bought a new CPU cooler (“Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 LP Low Profile CPU Cooler“) for our media center PC but unfortunately it didn’t fit on the motherboard (ASUS P5N7A-VM) even though it is the correct CPU socket type (“Intel socket 775“). It wouldn’t sit on the CPU properly because some capacitors on the motherboard […]
Mini Keyboard (Rii mini, Model: RT-MWKOI)
This gadget should be really good because it is nice and small, works in Linux out of the box and it is super convenient having a mini combined mouse and keyboard at hand. However, unfortunately, the mouse isn’t sensitive or responsive, the key-presses have unpredictable delays, the range isn’t good enough and it completely stopped […]
Sandisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player
For £30, in my opinion this is MUCH better than a iPod because it can play ogg vorbis files. I use it to listen to podcasts at the gym and it’s ideal – it remembers where you got to so you can easily listen to hour long files and the fast-forward is perfect. The clip […]
Logitech MX Anywhere Mouse (Christmas present to Kix)
I spend half my life with my hand glued to a mouse – so the best one on the market will offer a good return on investment. This one can track on glass (we have a glass coffee table), which demonstrates how accurate and precise it is. The sensitivity is flawless. Wireless mice are good […]
New TV (Samsung UE40B7020W)
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
Cybernetic Cypher
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.
Introducing Butterfree
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 […]
The beginnings of a Home Theatre PC
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. Full Motherboard details: ASUS P5N7A-VM – micro ATX – GF 9300 / nForce 730i – LGA775 […]
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (UK)
[asa tomButton]B000B9RYG8[/asa] 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 […]
Neuros OSD (Christmas present from Grandpa)
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 […]
Squeezebox Boom
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 […]
Asus Eee-PC 900 – 3/Sep/08
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 […]
MyBook USB External Hard Drive – 20/Mar/2007 (Birthday present from Kix)
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 […]
Charmeleon (03/Mar/08)
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: […]
