And today:
Well the Up Speed is a lot better anyway 🙂
February 22, 2011
February 21, 2011
February 3, 2011
Backing up
an old iBook after restoring it from Time Machine and upgrading to OS X 10.5.
January 17, 2011
New Operator Chair
My old chair was manufactured in 1997 (it says so on the inspection label pasted under the seat) and I must have had it since not long after that. The padding on the seat had compressed and the gas lift was sticking. Time for a replacement 🙂
January 11, 2011
DrayTek Vigor2710n
My ISP recently notified me that my ADSL was getting a free upgrade to ADLS2+ sometime between February and April. This was good news apart from the fact that my existing modem/router was so old that it didn’t do ADSL2+ 🙁 It was a DrayTek 2600We that had been running pretty much 24/7 without problems since November 2002 when I first got ADSL. It also only supported WEP on the wireless LAN so that was a bit obsolete.
Today my new modem/router/firewall/wireless access point arrived and was quickly installed ready for my line upgrade.
Big box.
Littler box inside.
Neat and tidy. Template for drilling holes for wall-mounting.
Curvy.
Screws and plugs for wallmounting and a pad of DrayTek post-its included.
Light compact switching power supply.
Set up and running. Now I get wireless on the other side of the house too 🙂
January 4, 2011
Apple’s Market Cap Surpasses $300B
Apple’s market cap hits psychological milestone [From Apple’s Market Cap Surpasses $300B]
The naysayers will always find some way to spin that 🙂
January 1, 2011
iPad will grow 250% in 2011
A new report claims tablet sales will more than triple next year, but says Apple will hold on to its dominant position with the iPad, jumping from 14 million units in 2010 to 36 million next year.[From Report: iPad will grow 250% in 2011 at the expense of PCs]
I shall probably have to get one after the version 2 model comes out around March.
December 20, 2010
SATA/IDE to USB
Handy gadget for attaching bare drives by USB without having to mount them in a caddy or case.
December 6, 2010
GoFlex
My pair of Formac 160GB rotating back-up drives were full so I needed something bigger. I got a pair of GoFlex 1TB drives which came with USB interfaces. I got a single Firewire pluggable interface to share between them. One drive is sitting in the Firewire dock getting backups stored on it while the other is rotated out offsite.
A £5 Firewire 400<->800 cable let me plug it into my iMac.
October 29, 2010
Apple passes RIM, now number four cell phone maker globally
Apple’s stellar fiscal fourth quarter results continue to break records for the company. It sold 14.1 million iPhones, and its $20 billion in revenue topped one of Microsoft’s best quarters ever. Now, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics, the iPhone has catapulted Apple past both RIM and Sony Ericsson to make the company the fourth largest mobile phone vendor in the world.
Apple’s sales of 14.1 million iPhones was enough to capture 4.3 percent of the global mobile phone market for the last quarter. That’s double the roughly 2 percent market share the company managed this same time last year.
Despite the boost in ranking, however, Apple still has a tough road ahead to move into one of the top three positions. Nokia is still the global leader with 33.7 percent market share, while Samsung grabbed 21.8 percent and LG held on to 8.7 percent. All three of those vendors still sell millions of feature phones in addition to smartphones, though sales of those devices has been slowly waning as smartphones increase in popularity.
But Apple doesn’t plan on backsliding, either. “We’ve now passed RIM—and I don’t see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future,” CEO Steve Jobs boasted during Apple’s most recent quarterly earnings call.
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[From Apple passes RIM, now number four cell phone maker globally]
The naysayers appear to have been wrong again.