Category: Hardware

26 Jan

TomTom Maps!

It’s been a busy week, hence the lack of posts. I seem to be working longer days than usual trying to squash the backlog of outstanding jobs, but it’s all good since I now get to claim them all back. :) I don’t think anyone really thought about that for very long… Anyway, when I finally […]
14 Jan

PocketMac for BlackBerry

Syncing your phone and your computer is nothing new, especially for Mac users, but if you have a BlackBerry, the process isn’t quite as simple as you might think. The problem is that iSync (OS X’s built in device syncronisation tool) doesn’t natively support BlackBerry devices. PocketMac Luckily though, there is software available that does this quite […]
12 Jan

iPhone round 2

It’s the weekend already, not that it’s been a short week, it just seemed to go quite fast. It’s only just dawning on me that I’m back working full time after 3 years and it’s only the first week back. But with that said, the first week is also over and it’s been quite busy. […]
11 Jan

Apple iPhone really lacks…

What! James is unimpressed with an Apple product I hear you scream. Well for the record there are lots of Apple products I think are frustrating to use or cover such a niche that no one really cares, but this new iPhone really sucks… and not just a little bit. In fact, I’ll try to […]
29 Sep

Canon Digital Ixus 65

Well it’s been a while since I last splashed out and bought a new gadget (almost a year with TomTom being the last major purchase in November 2005), but I decided I needed a compact digital camera. I have my big digital camera, but it’s just too clunky to carry around everywhere. Enter the Canon […]
02 Jun

FreeNAS

Tonight I’ve been playing around with (yet another) open source project called FreeNAS. As the name suggested it’s basically software that lets you create simple Network Attached Storage. The beauty is that it’s all compiled in FreeBSD so it runs on any old computer, you just have to pump up the hard drive space and […]