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While reading the Sunday Paper, I come across an Advert for a InTempo Tablet PC which was going for a low price of £179.99. Of course the Specifications left a lot to be desired – 400Mhz CPU, 2MB Ram, 7″ Screen (800×480) and finally Android 1.9? I never knew there was such a thing as 1.9 – probably the same as 1.6 right? While looking for a review of this unit though, I cam across more devices of the same price – this been the Disgo Tablet 6000.
Monthly archives for October, 2010
Disgo Tablet 6000
Fitness Training Update
Some time back I got off my back side, off the computer and started training. It was important to work out what it was I was trying to gain from this exercise – was it getting bigger (physically), stronger, fitter, look better or something else? Like so many people out there, I liked the idea of joining a gym but the on-going cost, would I keep it up, would I feel a bit stupid (and weak) in a gym that only housed muscle heads? I had a good space in my garage, I had a set of loose weights and if you kept up with my posts – a PunchBag and various other parts of equipment. Did I steer from my path? Did I reach any of my goals, was this training paying off?
Netbook Battery life
Netbooks are often seen as not only been very portable but lasting longer then the equivalent laptop and one of the reasons I bought one all them years ago was to save me from having to carry out a normal sized laptop which never seen to last the stated life span on battery. Recently I choose to install Jolicloud onto my said netbook and while I was there, I wanted to see just how long it might last me on battery power – the results were a lot less then I expected.
Fedora 13 vs Linux Mint 10 RC
I have a desktop machine which I use purely for Linux, the specifications are Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz, 5GIG Ram, 80Gig Hard Drive, 19″ Widescreen TFT and nVidia 7600GT Graphics card. The on-board network has failed and it has an Intel gigbit server card installed (which Windows 7 will not recognise) and a PCI 54G Wireless Card. I had tested Fedora 13 on VMWare and liked the look of it – I set about wiping the present Ubuntu 10.10 and wanted to use Fedora instead on this machine – this is were it started to go wrong..
Synology USB Station 2
Synology have a low end product for sharing USB Hard Drives ( as well as printers) which is called USB Station 2. You can buy this product for £79.99 – I am not sure of USA Pricing at this time. This uses the same OS as the rest of the Synology Range (DSM 3.0) so you can use it as a download station, share printers across the network and even plug in a USB Wireless network card and make this thing wireless. You could spend the same money for a Print sharing device and it may look and act like the PogoPlug (except it is not shocking pink) but is in fact a full blown NAS – just with USB Speeds for the drives.
Fixing computers for friends and family
I have worked in I.T. for most of my working life and basically people expect you to fix there computer for them – either for free or very cheap indeed. As well as fixing computers, we also have the on-demand computer expert when they are buying something, such as a Laptop or a Printer for example. It might start off with just the odd person but eventually you can be sitting with 3 Laptops to fix when in reality you should be doing something more productive. How does it build up and why are computers different from says cars for example?
The Television is evolving
When you are working in the field of technology, it is easy to forget that the ‘normal’ people have no idea about anything other then a Set Top Box, a DVD Player and a TV. Are we as consumers expecting more out of the box we sit in front of each night? Is it that we are sick of watching what the networks push out and in this world if instant gratification – we want this and we want it now. In this post – I go through my view of media streamers, apple Tv, Google tv and so forth to look at how these might fit in with your digital lifestyle.
Moving back to Firefox
There was a time I stood by Firefox as my browser of choice and when using at various places I work, it was frowned upon, I should be using IE after all right? Google Chrome came along and at first I failed to see the point of this browser and carried on using Firefox until 3.6 Series. I finally took a look at using Chrome on a daily basis and it *almost* managed to win me over while Firefox kept updating in the background.
Medal of Honor 2010 – PC
I recall way playing the first Medal of Honor game on the pc way back in 2002 and the on-line experience back then was brilliant, even to the point of me creating a clan and joining a league. Recently they have remade the game across all platforms including PC and I even played the on-line beta via Steam to test it out. I was interested in the Single player version for now, so installed and played – here are my thoughts..
