Hardware
Aldi Go Cruise 4300 Hack
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Ozi Explorer is a handy little utility which allows 4WD enthusiasts to load maps onto a GPS device, and to track their locations on various 4WD tracks. One catch is the need to have a Windows OS enabled device. The creators have nicely created a couple of different versions – ranging from PDA / phones [...]
Tablets Revisited
Friday, October 2nd, 2009At the start of this year, I was introduced to a podcast called “TWiT” – This Week in Tech. It’s run by a famous American radio host Leo Laporte, and it involves him inviting various tech-celebs (people renowned in the tech industry) to talk about issues and news from the last week to do with [...]
The Personality of Computers
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I was reading an article by John C Dvorak about the difference between Apple & Microsoft – and, critical as he usually is, he raises some good points. He made a single point that I thought relatively brilliant: Where is the Microsoft personality? In summary, he’s referring to how Apple has played the marketing game [...]
Technology & The Economy: Part 2.
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Windows 7. It’s really just around the corner, especially with how time seems to move so much quicker these days. The public ‘Release Candidate’ will be released in May – supposedly. And at this point in time, there’s a lot of speculation around the ‘hype’ of Windows 7′s ability to perform on older hardware. Vista [...]
Technology & The Economy: Part 1.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009The world-wide economy is – interesting – to say the least. We’ve had the credit bubble go *pop*, the subsequent mass hysteria of everyone pulling money out of investments so fast (thanks to the wonder of technology: High speed Internet and Internet banking) causing entire countries to become bankrupt, and generally society starting to panic [...]
Technological Complacency
Monday, March 2nd, 2009It seems that as society has progressed, people have become lazy – complacent. No longer are we required to think innovatively to solve problems – we’ve become relient on machines to work it out for us. A classic example was in a historic show I watched a few years back. Their goal was to try [...]
Lamb in wolves skin
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Some recent musings with a fellow uni-companion brought to light the fact that many people go out purchasing Apple’s ‘macbook’, with the only intention being to scrap the host os (OS-X), and replace it with windows, usually XP, but some are going to Vista. We were discussing how stupid it was, the main reason being [...]