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New TV (Samsung UE40B7020W)

New TV (Samsung UE40B7020W)

By Tom Fotherby on November 14, 2009

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

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The Bitvolution Webserver

By Tom Fotherby on August 15, 2009

The hardware behind Bitvolution is called “Butterfree“, he’s based in Germany (www.hetzner.de): Specs: CPU: Intel® Core™ 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 Web interface 92 GBit bandwidth with unlimited traffic usage (but the […]

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Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (UK)

Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (UK)

By Tom Fotherby on March 3, 2009

[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 […]

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