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  • Mophie Air

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI tend to play a lot with my new phone as a result of which the battery depletse in a short lapse of time. If I’m by a power source then that doesn’t matter because recharging the phone is easy. There are other cases where recharging is a hassle.  That’s part of…

  • Autostitch for the Iphone

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    Reading Time: < 1 minutePort of Nyon in Winter The picture above was done with an iphone and the autostitch application. To produce this type of photograph the process is simple. You take a series of pictures with the Iphone camera before going to the autostitch application. You select the photographs that you want stitched together…

  • I bought an Iphone because my N97 crashed too much

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is an about face for me. As an appreciator of the latest technology I always want to have the latest technology but I can’t always justify the cost. As a result of this appreciation of technology so I have gone through a number of devices. As a child losing devices is…

  • Going to the netbook

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI like smaller and smaller machines. I’m now enjoying the use of an eeepc, the 1000hg. It has inbuilt 3g modem and a 4.5hr battery life. It’s a nice change to use a small laptop because it does the basic things. It allows me to tweet, read e-mail and fail at…

  • Haven’t blogged in a while

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI haven’t blogged in a few months but I have been tweeting, and working full time, and I’m attempting Nanowrimo once again this year. Last year the process was easier as I had a lot of free time. This year I need to make time. I did get to over 20,000…

  • (CR)apple and authorisation issues.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo doubt you remember that my laptop motherboard died. The effects are still being felt today. When you have applications, and when you have several computers you authorise them in order to have access to the same applications and music on more than one machine. This works fine most of the…

  • Another reason not to get an Iphone

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the great things about devices failing is when you’ve got other devices you depend on to keep everything synced up. In particular today I’m seeing another reason never to get an Iphone. If your computer goes down for any reason syncing between the phone and the computer is screwed…

  • On why I will never spend my own money to buy an Apple laptop again.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a known issue with the Nvidia 8600 video card. That issue is that the card fails faster than average. There are two common problems with this video card. The first is that the screen is just messed up. That’s not the issue I have. The issue I am having with…

  • Quick N97 thoughts.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf I had a perfect laptop it would be shaped just like the N97 but larger. I’m saying this because of how much I love having a keyboard and a touchscreen in such a small package. Now imagine if laptops did away with all that wasted space at the bottom, where…

  • I have become death, destroyer of macbook pros

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the second time in a little over a year the video card on my macbook pro has failed and I am left with the black screen of death. As a result of this I will have to send the machine off for repair for a second time. Luckily the machine…