Camper Van Tent

With the sun shining outside, the temperature high and hot weekend ahead my mind has turned to camping.
However, the major flaw in the camping plan is my lack of tent which is quite a big problem of course. A friend of mine has said that I can borrow one of his but I would […]

iPhone 5 rumours

I never bothered buying the fist iPhone when it was released but I did purchase the iPhone 4 as soon as it’s was released having decided not buy the 3GS and patiently wait for the 4th generation.
I was disappointed because the smart phone is brilliant and I don’t how could ever go back to a […]

iPad 2

No sooner has it arrived then it’s pretty much sold out, no surprise there though.  The iPad 2 is now one of the must have gadgets of 2011 and millions of people are desperately trying to get their hands on one.
I’ve had the original iPad since December and wont be upgrading until the 3rd version […]

Commodore 64 revival

Those of us who grew up in the 80’s will fondly remember the commodore 64 as being an absolutely brilliant games computer which everyone wanted for Christmas. It introduced a new generation to the concept of PC gaming with its then powerful 8-bit processor and 64KB of RAM.
The good news for all those who […]

CD Duplication Could be Illegal

Its not everyday that your neighbour is court for creating a huge illegal film copying enterprise.
Well the other day after a long hard day at work I approached my street where there were about 4 police vans that had foriensic response team on the side. When I came closer to the vans there were 4 […]

From Netbook to Desktop

With a plethora of cheap netbooks these days the challenge is to improve on the components in them while keeping the price low and the power consumption low improving battery life. Nvidia are trying with their ION Graphics Processor that produces 10 times faster graphics and now they are transferring it to a PC. Not […]

Easy Portable Backups

We have a lot of precious data that can change daily. Copying it onto a USB stick can be hit or miss sometimes and you may miss some of the important files. The backup solutions that are around are ideal and provide professional software to make sure you backup everything safely. But there is one […]

Who Needs a Computer to Share Files?

What a pain it can be sharing your files from your iPod. When you are out and about and away from any computer and you want to share some of your files or a play list with one of your friends, who also has an iPod, you have practically no chance of it happening. If […]

Western Digital Raptor is dead, long live the VelociRaptor!

Western Digital, the creators of the slightly dated 3.5″ 10,000rpm Raptor drives have now moved on to produce the VelociRaptor. Based on a 2.5″ hard disk design, with a speed of 10,000rpm and weighing in at 300Gb the VelociRaptor outperforms its predecessor by up to 30% and when it hits the stores will cost […]

A hard drive that thinks its a mediaplayer

Iomega have just released the ScreenPlay HD - a 500Gb USB hard drive that also doubles as a HDMI mediaplayer. Currently supporting most formats (Mpeg 1 & 2, DivX & XviD) the player is capable of upscaling video to either 720p or 1080i resolution, and with a plethora of connection options including HDMI you’ll […]