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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Building a MythTV Box
We have quite a good Freeview box which does scheduled recordings including series-record but it could be better because it is missing a HD output, DVD playback and Video streaming. We decided to build our own HTPC in order to take control of our viewing options once and for all. Hardware List: Case: Lian Li […]
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: […]
Freedom Universal Keyboard – Dec/2007 (Christmas present from Grandpa)
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 […]
Netgear Aerial extension (Dec/2007)
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% […]
Parsley (22/Feb/07)
Chloe’s company, Panasonic gave away their old PC’s and she managed to bag this machine: CPU: Pentium 4 2Gz RAM: 768MB DDR SDRAM. Inside it is very organised but not very expandable, there isn’t room for more than one harddisk and I could only just fit our TV card into a pci slot riser card. […]
Case Mod (May 2003)
Chloe and I went to Maplins and bought a window kit (£10). Combined with a cold cathod tube (a crimbo present from martin) I think your’ll agree it is a good way to make the computer a more interesting feature of the house. This wasn’t easy to do. A jigsaw was used to cut the […]
GBA Mod (July 2002)
The Afterburner is a do it yourself kit that lets you install a transparent lighted plate over the GBA’s LCD screen. Installation is pretty scary, you have to do some modification to the shell of the GBA itself and some soldering onto the GBA circuit board. It’s quite easy except for applying an adhesive strip […]
