Nov 25 2012
As promised, here is the unboxing video for Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 8 handset – the Lumia 920! Nokia is betting big on Windows Phone. While Nokia seems to have navigated the potential disaster of original Windows Phone 7 devices ultimately being stranded on Windows Phone 7.8 with some incremental updates the refinements incorporated into …
Nov 03 2012
Here it is, potentially one of the most anticipated tablets to hit the market – Microsoft Surface! I ordered this back on 17/10/2012 @ 0930 hours and despite the heavy traffic on the Microsoft Store website I managed to get my order through the gate. I ended up ordering the standard 32GB Surface with black …
Oct 15 2012
Sometimes uploading videos to YouTube can be a bit of a trial in itself. If the video upload is very large and you’re up against a deadline then you need to leave plenty of time to send the file up to YouTube plus contingency should the transfer fail. However, if you didn’t want the video …
Sep 26 2012
Okay, it’s time to blow the old trumpet here Last night, the blog racked up its 100,000th visit to the site and 125,000 pageviews since things kicked off on 30/01/2010. That’s not too bad at all given that this started off as a bit of a hobby to help keep me in the swing of …
Sep 15 2012
Sometimes you might want to use two separate Google accounts without how to log out and login or switch between them given that doing so may interrupt other services in use (like Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, etc). I have a persona Gmail account as well as another Gmail account for the strata in which I live plus …
Aug 14 2012
Here’s a quick tip if you upload videos to YouTube regularly or every now and then. It can be frustrating when you are uploading your video and it gets hopelessly stuck for whatever reason, particularly if it is a large video given that you can upload up to 20GB (provided your account is enabled for …
Aug 12 2012
A few days ago I shared my lament of the partial death of my Logitech G9x mouse and my selection of the Logitech G700 Wireless Gaming Mouse as its successor. As usual, I have managed to do an unboxing video and merged it with a preview of the mouse itself at the same time. The major differences between the …
Jun 26 2012
This morning, I was surprised to receive a package at work (which is unusual first thing on a Monday morning). Anyway to my surprise it was the Raspberry Pi that I had ordered just over three months ago – awesome! Now, when this computer was described as tiny they really meant it. This thing has a footprint smaller …
Jun 02 2012
Following on from yesterday’s heads up on my acquisition of a Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone I have also managed to record an unboxing and sneak peak video whilst up in Cairns on holiday. Over the last couple of days I have had more of an opportunity to use the phone ahead of doing a preview …
May 24 2012
This has been long overdue particularly given that the FT4 is now out but there is quite a bit of overlap between the FT3 and FT4 that I thought it was still worthwhile doing a preview. The body and button layout of the FT3 is practically identical to the FT4 except for the following: The …
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