Before the event of this current generation of happy, shiny HD consoles and their 60fps DD5.1 gaming goodness I used to play quite a lot of PC games. I had a regular supply of relatively inexpensive, high end PC equipment and could usually play everything with the detail turned up to eleven. These days, things [...]
We were up in Southampton this morning, an unexpected visit but we did manage to complete 85% of our Christmas present shopping in the space of around ten minutes (children getting older+gift card=problem solved). After kicking back in the excellent new Pret A Manger and enjoying a double hit latte, we wandered into the Apple [...]
Something this has just occurred to me while sitting on the train writing up the HD reports coming back from London (and I cannot wait to get home to my own house, my own bed, and most importantly, my greater half) is that all of the major consumer electronics manufacturers are ditching silver and going [...]
Another month, another gaming convention. This time it’s the turn of Leipzig in Germany to host the GC07 show, which has been largely uninteresting so far, but yesterday Sony held a press conference and unveiled something of a badly kept secret in the form of a PVR add-on for the PlayStation 3.This is [...]
It was Sally’s birthday yesterday (thanks to all the family members who sent cards, they were greatly appreciated and she had a great day) and I’ve taken a couple of days off work to make up a long weekend. Earlier today we headed up to Southampton for a wander around in the sun combined with [...]
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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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