Time for a round-up post of what has been happening over the last week. Dell FAIL Redux Just recently I wrote a post berating Dell for shipping a Studio Hybrid machine to me with a faulty fan. Unfortunately the story got worse before it got better! I received word just before the Easter break that [...]
Last week in Barcelona Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest iteration of its mobile phone OS which looks..well a bit like the old one with a few extra bits on the front end. Regardless of the fact that I have just upgraded to a new phone I can still quite happily say it’s not [...]
For more photos of the NC10 including the packaging, installing Windows 7 via USB and assorted other photos, you can check out the set I have created on Flickr HERE. A couple of weeks ago I took the plunge and bought a netbook computer. This new wave of small, ultra ultra portable and perhaps most [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the work/life balance and trying to leave the wonderful world of IT behind me of an evening and do something more productive. Like watch TV. So far I would have to say it has gone…fairly well. As with starting any new project or plan, you [...]
It would be very easy to say that Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been, but not even Windows Vista was what it should have been. Stripped of features such as WinFS and the ultra-tight security laxed before release, it was a very much neutered version of what Microsoft originally envisioned. So it’s [...]
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New year, new tech toys to play with. Here’s a brief look at what I’ve been investigating this week. First up, this all-in-one Sony VAIO desktop PC. Just before Christmas I installed the top of the range version of this machine for my boss. That one was £1,700 worth of the cream of the crop [...]
Before Michael Bay spent a gazillion dollars on the Transformers franchise he made a series of somewhat clichéd action movies, but the one that has always stuck out for me is Bad Boys (his first feature film). Give Bay a relatively small budget and a paper thin plot (two cops bust drug dealers and cop [...]
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