Even though they’ve been around a while now I’ve only recently got my hands on one of these boxes. With space for up to 4 hard disks and 8GB RAM it’s aimed at the lower end of the SMB market and is generally intended to run Windows 2008 Foundation or Small Business 2011 Essentials (when
Book Review: Aliens Genocide
I picked this up ages ago on market stall selling old books. Aliens is pretty standard geek fare and as a teenager I was obsessed with both Aliens and Predator. I haven’t read any Aliens fiction for ages so thought I’d change that since book has been sat on the shelf for a while. The
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Amazon Kindle–First Impressions
Yeah ok I did it. The day after I posted about how I couldn’t decide whether a Kindle would work for me I went and got one. First up thank you to everyone who commented on that post – it was great to get all the different points of view. What really swung if for
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Remember Windows Mobile 6.5–Unfortunately I do
Having just read Richard Tubb’s post called Remember Windows Mobile 6.5? I felt compelled to write this. You should probably go and read Richard’s post first….go on, I’ll still be here when you’re done. In summary, Richard has a HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5. He loves the device and HTC use their HTC Sense
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Book Review: Feed
They say never judge a book by it’s cover but I’m glad I did with this one! I was in a bookshop looking for something else when the RSS symbol on the cover jumped out at me. I had a quick read of the overview which mentioned bloggers so as there was a "3 for
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Amazon Kindle–Should I? Shouldn’t I?
I mentioned recently about how much I like to read. Surely for a techie, getting an Amazon Kindle is a no-brainer? Things is I’m really torn. With my technical head on it makes perfect sense. An entire library in my pocket. Books available on demand, no waiting for deliveries, shelf space at home reclaimed! The
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Live events and subtitles–a breakthrough?
Just wanted to write about something I saw at the weekend. I’ve posted plenty of times in the past about the lack of accessibility for people with hearing problems. People take a lot for granted such as TV, DVD, cinema but if you have hard time hearing it can be a battle to get involved.
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Reading List 2011
I thought it’d be worth explaining the slew of book reviews that have been on the blog recently. I like to read. I read a LOT. Whether its a book, a blog, a magazine I’ve always got something on the go. My reading habits when it comes to books is a little weird though. Sometimes
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Book Review: Assassins Creed Renaissance
Is there such a thing as reading too many books? I’m really into Assassins Creed at the moment. Having ignored the first game I got the second one as gift for my birthday and I was engrossed with it so when I saw this book I grabbed a copy. The story follows the events of
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Book Review: Network Your Computers & Devices Step by Step
I need to stop reading so fast otherwise I’ll need to rename this to Andy’s Reading Blog! The Microsoft Press Facebook page were looking for people to review this new book so I put my hand up and I was lucky enough to get a copy of the ebook to take a peek at. I’m