Pebble Smartwatch
A first-impressions review of my brand new Pebble Smartwatch
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Kickstarter Tracking & Historic currency conversion in Google Spreadsheets
Because I’m going to need this again at some point. I’m currently tracking progress of my Kickstarted projects with a Google Drive Spreadsheet. This is partly because it tells me exactly how much...
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Windows 8
I installed the Release Candidate for Windows 8. We are not friends. There are three parts to Windows 8 that I’m going to cover. The first is the install and general behavior, the...
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Make Your Paypal Account More Secure
Recently, Jeff Atwood showed how to make your Google account (and therefore gmail, youtube etc.) more secure by enabling their 2-Factor authentication system. (2 Factor Authentication is the same kind of thing some...
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Setup
Eventually, I’ve got around to revising my desktop rig, as happens every couple of years. The new machine is called Thundersnow. The key requirements were the three monitor setup and a CPU revision,...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Last time I attempted to install a preview version of Windows, it all went a bit entertainingly pear-shaped. This time, the install went better. Well, the software did. On Wednesday, my computer made...
Read More →On not pardoning Alan Turing
(Then) Prime Minister Gordon Brown, September 2009, being Right: So I am both pleased and proud that, thanks to a coalition of computer scientists, historians and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) activists,...
Read More →Foxconn coverage
A short list of companies who use Foxconn manufacturing’s services and aren’t Apple Inc. Acer Inc., Amazon.com, ASRock, Asus, Barnes & Noble, Cisco, Dell, EVGA Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Lenovo, Logitech, Microsoft, MSI,...
Read More →SOPA for Brits
So, Wikipedia is shutdown today. Reddit, ICHC and a large number of other sites will be showing their irritation at SOPA and the concepts surrounding it by joining them in going dark for...
Read More →The "Disappointment" of the iPhone 4S
The iPhone 4S is not designed to make the IT Industry happy with Apple. A while ago, while Apple were doing the iPod thing and their machines were still the main asset, the...
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