Sometimes Tesco come up with a really interesting little gadget. They advertised the Technika "Viewbox" at a pretty nice price and I thought I would take advantage of late night shopping and go fetch one. The Viewbox is basically an iPod dock - allowing you to play music and video's on its 7 inch screen. I thought it might be a good way of watching some of the gigabytes of video content that I've bought from iTunes over the last year or so.
Thursday 27th November 2008
I ordered a BlackBerry "Storm" (the 9500) from Vodafone. Finally out and with a reasonable deal from Vodafone - I decided to buy out my remaining contract with O2 and get the 9500.
Friday 14th November 2008
Rant time. How can a major manufacturer like HP make such suck-worthy printer software? I wasted an hour trying to install my HP Photosmart to my desktop with the HP software totally unable to locate the printer on my WiFi network (and all of 4 metres away). The HP wizard was trying very hard to install unwanted "salesware" though - Print from the Internet, Buy supplies from our Shop.
I tried installing the printer directly using the standard Windows feature and Vista installed the printer in less than a minute - and it works wirelessly just fine. Microsoft 1 - HP Software - 0.
Friday 7th November 2008
Pretec have come up with the toughest and one of the priciest USB memory sticks to date. Called the i-Disk Bulletproof at just over £90 its waterproof, fireproof and car key proof. I think it looks great but I'm not sure my gadget budget stretches that far - I may have to stick with my Sandisk Cruzer at £9 for the same size disk (4GB).
