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The Freelancer’s Kitbag
Posted on Sunday, May 16, 2010 | No CommentsOkay, so the title is a misnomer - it's more of a kitbox. Still, it's my new toy and I'll love it and hug it and never let it go. The kitbag - designed as a one-grab container for everything I'm likely to need if ... -
Wish List altruism: a primer
Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 | No CommentsFor a while now I've been experimenting with a little karma boosting project based around Amazon's Wish List service - and now I'd like to get more people involved. The idea is both simple and more or less selfless, and revolves around ... -
Long Spike: Sony HD camcorder
Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | No CommentsNot content with shaking up the bridge camera market with its new EVIL NEX 3 and NEX 5 mirrorless cameras, Sony has snuck out a sneak preview of an up-coming camcorder using the same APS C-size CMOS high-definition sensor. Described as still ... -
Recommended: Jackson Roofing
Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 | 1 CommentIt's not often I bother to write a post describing my good experiences with a company - especially when it comes to my quite frankly abysmal experiences getting my roof sorted a while back - but I wanted to publicly thank Jackson Roofing for ... -
The photos they tried to ban
Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 | 4 CommentsToday, I was wandering around Halifax during lunch. Nothing particularly exciting about that - it's pretty much a daily occurrence. While out and about, I spotted an amusing sign of which I wanted to take a picture. Again, nothing special - it's something I do ... -
Seiko ‘FutureNow’ watch
Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 | 1 CommentWhile TokyoFlash's impressive curved E-Ink watch wins the style stakes, I have to admit a soft spot for Seiko's latest invention - the FutureNow watch. Looking like an oversized digital watch from the mid-nineties, the FutureNow has an electrophoretic E-Ink - actually a Vizplex, if ... -
The WePad slate
Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 | No CommentsAll this talk in the media about the iPad - and there's plenty of it, with an estimated 80% of the articles in my RSS feeds over the last few days being iPad related in one way or another - has whet my appetite ... -
What video game character are you?
Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2010 | 1 CommentAlthough I usually resist silly online quizzes, I was rather taken by the Which pre-1985 video game character are you quiz. I'm pretty taken with the result, too. I am a Space-invader. I will happily recruit the help of friends to aid me in getting what ... -
Golden age manuals
Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2010 | No CommentsI spotted this post on Boing Boing a while back, and meant to write something about it at the time but kept putting it off. It's been languishing at the bottom of my Google Reader Starred Items ever since, and as I'm in the ... -
Recommended: AppBrain
Posted on Saturday, April 3, 2010 | No CommentsI've stumbled across a neat toy in the form of AppBrain, a snazzy bit of kit for Android 'phones that finally brings the one feature I've been missing since getting my Milestone: a desktop interface to the Android Market. It's a simple concept: you install ...