I am so pleased with my Dell Streak 5. I attended a conference recently and a friend of mine, who I have not seen for a while, saw me take out the phone to answer a call. He thought the size of it against my face was hilarious. He asked if I had gone back [...]
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Bike Hub: Turn your android phone into a route-finding Satnav for bicycles
Posted: 29th June 2011 by graham in Bicycle, GadgetsI know it came out last year but I have just discovered BikeHub. BikeHub is a great FREE android app (also for iPhone) that finds a cycle route for you, then gives you the option to follow it using your phone’s GPS. It will also give voice directions and vibration alerts when coming to turns. This screenshot [...]
World’s oldest computer a thing of wonder: The Antikythera Mechanism
Posted: 24th June 2011 by graham in GadgetsThe Antikythera mechanism is a sophisticated, scientific instrument built in Ancient Greece around 150 BC. We now know it to be the oldest computer known. It is named after the island near where it was found. It had been lost for 2000 years in a Roman shipwreck below the seas off Antikythera island, until it [...]
I watched the video with a small sense of the full terror I would have felt flying the thing. Will stick to bicycle!
From Ubernote to Evernote to Springpad. In order to keep myself organised I use to-do lists and notes programmes. Since 1999, to carry notes and my to-do lists (and lots more) I have used one PDA after another from a Palm Pilot to my present Dell Streak. I have used notes on my desktop, laptop [...]
A friend has asked me a question: I’ve just bought a new computer. I can use my university’s site licence for Windows, so I bought a computer that didn’t have Windows pre-installed. It has Linux. The computer shop have told me that to have both OS’s, I needed to have installed Windows first, so I [...]
If you are a Linux user and you have ever had to phone tech support at your ISP you will understand this. I have been there!