For my birthday Jayne treated me to a new lens for my camera: the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens, which is often referred to as the ‘nifty fifty’. What with one thing and another, I didn’t get round to really trying it out over the weekend, except for a really quick snap of the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Gadgets'
Holiday fever
September 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life
I think I should take more holidays. If I did then I would not get so absurdly excited about it when I do go anywhere. As it is Jayne and I are practically stopping strangers in the street to tell them we are going away.
Stephen Fry’s gadgets
August 30th, 2011 · Comments Off on Stephen Fry’s gadgets · Life
We watched that Stephen Fry programme on the TV last night – his 100 best gadgets. Entertaining but inconsistent sums it up I think. Some of the gadgets were extremely generic while others were very specific. for example, the iPod counts, even though it is just one amongst many mp3 players – and not even […]
Live long and prosper
August 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on Live long and prosper · Technology
After my experience of having the BlackBerry die on me I implemented nearly all the advice about extending battery life and it has had a dramatic effect. Now the thing still has plenty of battery life left after a couple of days.
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Too much information
August 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on Too much information · Technology
I was a bit late into work this morning. This was indirectly caused by information overload. More directly, it was caused by the battery totally dying on the mobile I have been using as an alarm clock, but information overload contributed to that.
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Like a kid in a sweetshop?
July 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Like a kid in a sweetshop? · Life
Seeing as I am off work this wek, just using up some holiday, and live just round the corner from the County Oak retail park, I went for a stroll this afternoon to look round the big shops. Actually, to be more accurate, I had to go to the pet shop to get yet another […]
Blackberry
July 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Blackberry · Technology
Test from mobile, using a wordpress app for the new phone.
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More mobile dilemmas
May 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on More mobile dilemmas · Life, Technology
The contract on Jayne’s Vodafone finally came to an end, so I dumped them and got her a BlackBerry from Virgin because it was a bout the cheapest deal when factoring in the discount for being a Virgin Media customer.  It could have been even cheaper but I went for the new 3G version instead […]
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Have HMV given up?
March 8th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life
I went into Crawley’s HMV the other day. What a shock that was. There is now a huge space devoted to electronic gadgets: iPads, PlayStations, iPods, etc. and naturally rafts of expensive accessories for all of them. It is all very nicely laid out too – low counters with lots of these toys on display […]
About this new iPad thing
March 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on About this new iPad thing · Technology
I see that Apple have announced the second version of their iPad today, to much fan-boy acclaim. Looks very nice, in fact if the first one had been as good (and if they were all a lot cheaper) I would have been less dismissive of it. I still can’t get excited though. I can’t remember […]
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