For those of you who have been following the blog you might have read that I joined the Panasonic Insider Crew late last year and, more recently, became an Insider Guru. From time to time, I’ll get my hands on some Panasonic gadgets and I’ll also share my thoughts and experiences with you so you …
Category: Technology
Dec 23 2011
Playing it Safe on the Roads at Christmas
The end up the year is creeping up with Christmas and New Year celebrations just waiting to get into full swing. For many, this can involve a lot of driving and attention to pay on the roads. These days, we have GPS to help us get from A to B and other tools that warn …
Dec 21 2011
Quickly and Safely Recover Loose Screws and Headers
Here’s a tip that might come in handy if you disassemble and reassemble computers or other gadgets. Sometimes, despite your best care and efforts, you might drop a screw, a header or some other tiny object you can spend quite some time trying to find that object on the floor. It can be harder still …
Dec 19 2011
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Hard Drive Warranties
This news may take a little while to trickle through to regular consumers but I wanted to draw attention to the fact that Western Digital and Seagate are going to alter the warranties offered with their hard drive around the end of this year. In short, Seagate will be slashing the five years warranty down …
Dec 17 2011
Retail Feature Labels Don’t Tell All
Just a quick one for this evening. Today, I went browsing through David Jones to look at all of the audio visual products on display. It was a fairly standard sort of layout with those little signs next to each product with two to four features listed along with the price. Now whilst that sort …
Dec 16 2011
OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Solid State Drive Unboxing & Preview
A little while ago I gave you all the heads up that I was getting a new solid state drive for my desktop computer to replace the Patriot Warp 128GB SSD that is currently my bootable OS and application drive. It has been running a bit slow given that I run it close to capacity …
Dec 14 2011
Holy Hard Drive Prices!
While the tech heads out there would have seen this coming the regular user probably didn’t so I thought this was worth mentioning. It wasn’t long ago when you could buy a 2TB hard drive for around $100 which was pretty good. However, prices of all hard drives may soon rise due to widespread flooding …
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