I got the notification that my Amazon Kindle order shipped today, with delivery expected in a couple of days.
In my excitement, I hopped over to the Kindle book store (accessed via Amazon.com as opposed to the .co.uk) to queue up some books and previews ready for its arrival.
It’s accurate to say that I’m left a [...]
Posts under ‘Hardware’
Amazon international Kindle ships, buyers remorse imminent?
Moving to eBooks?
bibliophile |ˈbɪblɪə(ʊ)fʌɪl|nouna person who collects or has a great love of books.
I travel a lot for work and quite often my flights are longer than just a couple of hours.
This means that my MBP battery life isn’t long enough to sustain the entire flight and besides, I don’t often get to fly First Class so [...]
Clearing the BIOS password on a Dell D610
Seeing as I work in technology, that obviously means I’m the first port of call for friends/relatives with any kind of computer issue.
A couple of weeks ago, one of my wifes friends asked if I could take a look at her lappy – a Dell D610.
She hadn’t used it for a few years as she [...]
iPhone sync taking a long time? Maybe a "manual" sync will help
My iPhone sync has been a real pain in the ass for MONTHS.
If I just quickly want to add a podcast i’ve just downloaded, or add a new playlist or single song, it would take at least 10 mins.
5 mins of Backing Up
5 mins of Copying Applications from iPhone
x mins of Actual Sync
The copying applications [...]
First Apple 'Genius' Experience
If it was up to me, i’d just replace the cracked topcase on my Macbook myself. I’ve got the Macbook service manual (one that gets issued to the Official Apple Service Centre places) and it’s just as straight forward as I thought. However when I asked the Genius at my local Apple store if [...]
Apple Macbook – Build quality continued
In the short time since my previous post about my cracked Macbook i’ve been doing a bit of research and have found identical issues.
Here is a pic with the same problem in the same place, via this thread on Macrumours:
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
There’s even a Flickr group for this problem and an old Engadget post. [...]
Post MWSF Keynote shopping list
Definitely want to pick up the 1TB Time Capsule, much easier than remembering to connect up my external drive every night!
Also, i’m considering picking up an Apple TV to replace the old Mac Mini I have under my TV at the moment (Which i’m going to relocate to the music room to use as a [...]
VMWare Fusion and network bridging
** UPDATED MARCH 12 2010: I just posted my solution to this problem here **
I’ve had VMWare Fusion running an image of my work laptop, on my Macbook, for nearly three weeks now. I’ve had no problems at all, running over both NAT and via network bridge.
Until this week.
Now, when I try to use [...]
Ultimate Everything
My last post mentioned that I had managed to use Noobz‘ latest downgrader and my copy of GTA:LCS to get from the OR 2.8 version of the PSP firmware back down to the Homebrew friendly 1.50.
Whilst trying to find something useful and interesting to do with my new old-skool style PSP I stumbled across the [...]
Halfway up the down
Following this item on BBC news, I decided to go ahead and attempt this homebrew stuff.
Every since I got my PSP, i’ve always kept the firmware up to date – for no other reason than I like having the latest and greatest. I don’t know why.
So, after following the instructions HERE I’m back down [...]