John Chow’s Cable Folding Evilness
Comments OffAre you like me: A sad and lonely individual that has high computer temperatures and a mess of cables inside disrupting the airflow? Too cheap to buy round IDE cables to make things cooler? Why not do what John Chow does with his own computers: Cable Folding. He folds the cables like some sort of [...]
The Truth About Switching – Moving to the Mac
Comments OffAs you already know, I’m a Mac User. I am still more of a PC gamer, so I have a foot in both OS camps. The PC’s for gaming and file storage, the Mac is for my work. Perfect. However, like many new owners of a Mac, I had to go through a learning curve, [...]
USBCell – Batteries That Charge From USB
Comments OffThis weekend, whilst I wandered around PC World trying to find network cables (Damn expensive in there, but the easiest place to get some on short notice), I saw some really expensive batteries. USBCell, by Moixa. Yes, they were expensive to the tune of £9.99 for a pack of TWO compared to less than £4 [...]
The Ups and Downs of Electrical Closing Down Sales
My sister, Charlotte, has a new credit card with an obscenely large credit limit. The computer she’s borrowing from a family member has also unceremoniously died, with a dead hard drive. So it was no surprise she was suddenly in the market for a new laptop. I talked to her about the possibilities of buying [...]
The Verbarius Clock Tells Time. Vaguely.
Comments OffYou remember those novelty clocks you could give people whom were vague about time? The ones with only an hour hand, and time locations such as “Five-ish” on the outside edge? The ones that the recipient of the gift finds insulting and refuses to invite you to their wedding? Thinking of it right now? Forget [...]
IronDrive – Practically Indestructible USB Flash Drive
Comments OffYou’re a soldier in the middle of the battlefield, writing your next blog entry (it could happen). Suddenly, you are warned about potential nuclear fallout nearby, and there’s not enough time to get to the top secret military underground bunker. You need to keep your important data (read as “Artistic Photography”) safe at all costs, [...]
Put Your Xbox 360 Controller On Your PC
Comments OffI’ve been jealous of you console types for quite a while. It’s not that you have better games than we PC games have (FPS games are MEANT for the keyboard and mouse, damnit!), not the standardisation of hardware (at least with the PC if the game looks bad and you want to improve it, it’s [...]
