Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Open Hardware

14/01/2008

I’m a bit late to the party (as this has been out a while), but I caught an article on the New York Times yesterday about the Neuros OSD. It’s a piece of hardware for ripping media and saving it in MP4 format. The news is that the manufacturer has made it ‘open’ [...]

Your Start Page

22/04/2007

As you may have noticed, most web browsers let you set a start page, or in the case of newer tabbed browsers, a number of start pages. For a while I have had some sort of local start page, whether it be a static HTML page or, more recently, a slightly modified version of [...]

I Want to Wii

29/12/2006

I’m not much of a game player, computer games anyway. If you trawl back through the archives of this site you’ll notice it is a topic that is noticeably absent. I was bought a console once as a present (a PS1), used it a few times and then it got stuck in the [...]

Multi-function Devices

29/05/2005

I was reading about the new raft of mobile phones with higher quality cameras built-in recently and how they are a real threat to traditional digital camera makers. There have also been plenty of people pointing out that no, these new phones do not spell the end of stand-alone digital cameras as a consumer [...]