OK, this is an odd subject for my blog. A lightbulb. The TCP B22/BC 10 Watt LED bulb is the first LED bulb I’ve bought and there’s not much to say about it except that it’s wonderfully bright and only uses 10 watts of energy but is the equivalent of […]
Games
N52te Review
I have no illusions that this might make me a better player but it might make it easier to be a bad player. 🙂 Check out reddit thread too!
Games
X Scorch 360 Review
Joystiq reviewed the X Scorch 360 I mentioned previously. It’s a mouse and nunchuck device you can use with the Xbox 360 (or PC) that takes the place of the Xbox controller. I would dearly love if consoles support mice and keyboards as gaming devices so I had high hopes […]
Games
iMP 4 in 1 Multi Component AV Cable Xbox360/Wii/PS2/PS3
My quest for a component switcher cable continues. Play-asia were totally unresponsive and then so were Divineo.co.uk so I’ve ordered the iMP 4 in 1 Multi Component AV Cable Xbox360/Wii/PS2/PS3 from an Amazon.co.uk reseller. It’s almost half the price again of the XCM cable I had ordered from Divineo. Needless […]
Apple
My flickering Macbook
I thought I had got off lucky with my Macbook. I had dodged the problems with sudden shutdowns that others experienced and I was happy with it. Unfortunately, for the last two days the screen on the laptop has flickered for about 30 seconds after coming out of sleep mode. […]
Apple , Hardware , Humour , Linux
I made my Macbook cry
If Macs are so perfect why do they keep crashing and dying and need to be rebooted seeminly after every update? I’m just back from another reboot when Flock brought the system down. Yes, yes, must switch to another browser but after Mark’s ranting about the slowness and general bloatedness […]
Hardware
Resurrecting Dead Harddrives?
Ah yes, the old “freeze the drive” trick.. never tried that, but it’s one of the suggestions in this Slashdot discussion. May try to shake my dead disk later. *shrug*
General
Data Recovery from a Hard Disk
Some of you may remember my bad luck with hard disks during the summer. One was a Fujitsu drive that died hours after I plugged it in when I got home. I lost a month’s worth of photographs from Chicago and that was obviously upsetting. Of course, after the rest […]