IngressIngress
Today Google sent me an invite for Ingress – their latest augmented reality game [1]. The fact that they sent me the invitation while the Google Play store page for[...]
Category: Review
Cheap Android Tablet from AldiCheap Android Tablet from Aldi
I’ve just bought a 7″ Onix tablet from Aldi. It runs Android 4.0.4, has a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, 512M of RAM, 16G of flash storage, and a 800*480 display.[...]
Geeky JeansGeeky Jeans
It’s likely that most people make things like comfort, style, and price the main criteria when purchasing clothes. But there are other things that can be more important such as[...]
Australian Mobile Phone CostsAustralian Mobile Phone Costs
I previously wrote about the changes to bundling prices by Virgin (which are similar to changes by other telcos) which make it uneconomical to take a bundled phone [1]. This[...]
Back to the Xperia X10Back to the Xperia X10
10 months ago I was given a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone [1] to replace my Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. I also installed Cyanogenmod on it (here is a more[...]
SSD for a WorkstationSSD for a Workstation
SSDs have been dropping in price recently so I just bought four Intel 120G devices for $115 each. I installed the first one for my mother in law who had[...]
Mirror DisplaysMirror Displays
When I previously wrote about the Retina display in the new Macbook Pro I was so excited that I forgot to even check whether the display reflects light [1]. A[...]
Love of Technology at First SightLove of Technology at First Sight
After seeing the Retina display I’ve been thinking about the computer products that I’ve immediately desired. Here is the list of the ones I can still remember: My first computer[...]
Cheap SATA Disks in a Dell PowerEdge T410Cheap SATA Disks in a Dell PowerEdge T410
A non-profit organisation I support has just bought a Dell PowerEdge T410 server to be mainly used as a file server. We need a reasonable amount of space and really[...]
The Retina DisplayThe Retina Display
Last night I played with an Apple Macbook Pro with the new Retina Display (Wikipedia link). Wikipedia cites some controversy about whether the display actually has higher resolution than the[...]