For yonks I’ve been babbling on about why on earth are we still using ancient periphery such as keyboards and mice, after all PDAs have been using touch screens for years but until recently that technology hasn’t made the full leap to mainstram personal computing. Some Apple fanboys are predicting the next revision of [...]

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You may have seen mention of joost in the tech press a few months ago (invites are freely available now BTW). Another company named Babelgum have entered the marketplace, and what I find  really interesting about this concept is that these folks  (legally) use peer-to-peer delivery, so the more users watching a show the quicker [...]

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Today I stumbled accross a UK electronics mail order company called ebest24 who stock all those really handy usb/ether/ipod/phone battery products you’d normally see on eBay but at sensible prices with realistic postage. A few teasers… 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch Laptop IDE Adapter = 69p 23 in 1 Card Reader/ Writer = £2.99 3.5 [...]

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My elgato Turbo 264 arrived today and man.. does it it deliver! I did a couple of test encodings this evening… Test 1 – a 28 minute eye TV recording (off-air MPEG 2 in real life ) using a bog standard intel Mac mini core duo, exporting to mpeg 4 (iPod video) format: Without the [...]

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  As a family we spent many happy days holidaying on Guernsey (which my three daughters described as ‘like France but with public toilets’) . A local plant that always caught my eye was Echium Pininana which looks like a sort of cross between a Palm tree and a pine tree. Although native to the [...]

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July’s PC Pro magazine (page 140) and second podcast cover the morbid subject of what happens to our email accounts, logons & passwords after we’ve popped our clogs. The advice given suggests writing down a list of passwords and giving it to a close friend or family member rather than recording passwords in your will [...]

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  Mac enthusiasts – If you have an iPod video, Sony PSP, Apple TV or travel a lot with a MacBook/Pro perhaps this will feature on your ‘must have‘… list ?

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If you haven’t jumped on the DAB digital radio band wagon Nevada in Portsmouth are doing some weekend specials on the Perstel Bluenote DAB receiver. The unit often retails at around £99 with some retailers although Nevada advertise it for £39 however for the weekend special on eBay they’ve been listing it at just £29…

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