January 2009 - Posts

Look what I found in my loft: a 9-year old netbook
30 January 09 06:56 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

I splashed out a week or two ago, and bought a Samsung NC10 netbook – a bargain at under £300, and it runs Windows 7 really well. Impressed with the size and utility of the thing, I recalled a forerunner of the netbook, so went rooting around in my “box Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Consumer Tech, Random Stuff, Win7

Little pleasures in troubled times
23 January 09 10:27 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

It’s funny how sometimes the little things can give you the most tactile pleasures. An example is one little device I picked up post-Christmas – we were in town trawling round the “sales” and the only thing I really wanted to find was a good Waiter’s Read More...

Filed under: Win7

Windows 7 tips & tricks, and Media Center tuner drivers
14 January 09 12:16 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

I put Windows 7 Beta 1 on my home PC the other day (as a dual boot config with Vista x64) to see what it was like; I was very pleasantly surprised, with the exception of the fact that Media Center - much as it looks nicer - didn't work out of the box Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech, Win7

Top ten things for <insert company name> to do in 2009
13 January 09 11:38 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

It seems this time of year brings out the soothsayer in lots of IT journalists and analysts, if the volume of “ten things to do” articles is anything to go by. Mary-Jo Foley posted a couple of weeks ago on what she thought Microsoft might/should do this Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech, Random Stuff

Is Blu-ray really "all that"?
05 January 09 08:51 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

I made the decision to wait until the HD-DVD/Blu-ray format war had been resolved before deciding to give the winner a try. In the interim, about 18 months ago I picked up a new DVD player for about £120, which had HDMI support, did a decent job of upscaling Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech

How to wash your car properly
01 January 09 11:30 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

Another post from the "Random Stuff" category. Just over a year ago, I wrote on how to cook the perfect fillet steak , and amusingly, it's by far the most-read post on this blog - by a factor of more than two... So here's another one for the New Year, Read More...

Filed under: Random Stuff