Monday, 18th February 2008 – 21:29
Readers with long memories might recall me mentioning my first graphics tablet some time ago. I’ve made some use of it, and while it’s not something I use all the time, it’s not something I’d want to do without. And there lay the problem. At the time I bought it, it was (as these things […]
Thursday, 7th February 2008 – 20:11
After the fun I had with the last external hard drive I bought for the Mac Mini, I decided to get a different model rather than a replacement. While I could be persuaded that I’d just been unlucky and got a one-off dodgy drive with a tendency to sleep and never wake, I couldn’t really […]
Sunday, 3rd February 2008 – 16:51
I vaguely hinted about these in my iPod piece, so I thought I might as well get on with writing about them. I’ve always tended to upgrade the headphones when I buy a new music player, as the supplied ones tend to range from “not all that good” through “poor” to “unspeakably vile”. For a […]
Sunday, 3rd February 2008 – 16:20
Ooooooooooh, boy. Now here’s a review I never thought I’d write. I’ve had a number of different music players over the years, but I’d always shunned Apple’s offerings for a number of reasons. They tended to be expensive compared with those from other companies, no user-replaceable batteries (unless you’re a fan of microsurgery, which I’m […]
Thursday, 20th December 2007 – 23:46
OK, as USB keyboards go, this is relatively expensive. I paid £29.99 in my local branch of John Lewis, and I haven’t seen it for much less elsewhere. However, it’s a seriously nice piece of equipment. While previous Apple keyboards have tended to be slightly naff plastic thingies, this one is something else altogether. What […]
Wednesday, 19th December 2007 – 16:26
The only trouble with having two computers on my desk is having to either faff around with swapping cables, or having to double up on peripherals. I’ve managed to cut down to one monitor, but I still have the two keyboards and mice. I’m even reducing the number of times I type on the wrong […]
Monday, 17th December 2007 – 22:28
OK, once I’d downloaded and installed[1] Firefox, I began to feel at home. I have had a play with the Mac’s native browser, Safari, which is quite usable, but for some reason the posting page in WordPress is completely borked in it. I suspect this is down to one of the various plugins I use […]
Monday, 17th December 2007 – 19:59
What’s this? Two screens on the Losing it[1] desk? And what’s that on the left? Could it be an Apple computer? Could it be a dinky little Mac Mini connected up to my older 17″ monitor? Well, yes. It could. Not only could it be, but it is!
Before anyone deluges me with either congratulations or […]
Friday, 23rd November 2007 – 21:25
I’ve had my Creative Zen Micro for a couple of years now, and it’s still working well. That slightly fiddly control method has become easier to use with experience, and when coupled with a good quality pair of earphones, the sound quality is more than good enough for my purposes. So when Creative told me […]
Thursday, 25th October 2007 – 22:37
This morning, my clock radio decided that it no longer wanted to do the “radio” part of its job. Not only did the radio not turn on automatically at the set time, but no amount of persuading, button pushing, disconnecting and reconnecting would persuade the radio to come on manually either. This was a wee […]
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