Tag: hardware
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Technology for Good – episode thirty four with Salesforce’s John Tascheck
Welcome to episode thirty four of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode our guest was SalesForce SVP of Strategy, John Taschek. John and I are both longtime members of the Enterprise Irregulars, but this was the first time John and I had had a conversation outside of email! Some of the more…
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Buffalo TeraStation 2tb Home server review
I bought a Buffalo TeraStation 2TB NAS box the other day. It arrived today – Wohoo! The NAS box has 4 x 500mb drives in an external box (see above). The box has an ethernet port at the back allowing it to be plugged into the router and accessed across my entire home network. The…
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Recyclable, transparent ink cartridges
As a follow-on from yesterday’s post about hacking inkjet printer cartridges – in retrospect, a much better solution would be for printer manufacturers to make recyclable, transparent ink cartridges which warn when your ink is running low but only stop printing when you actually run out of ink! Now what are the chances of that…
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Can inkjet printers be hacked?
Ars Technica have an article about something I have long suspected, inkjet printers are filthy, lying thieves! The article quotes figures from an Epson sponsored study (!) which show that inkjt printers regularly report that they are out of ink when there can be as much as 60% of the ink left in the cartridge.…
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Philips Wireless Headset
Philips sent me a wireless headset to try out during the week. It is a bluetooth headset with a few funky features: The microphone is about 6mm long (as opposed to the boom mikes on many headsets which come right around to your mouth) It has a separate audio jack/bluetooth dongle so you can plug…
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Nokia N70 and E65 cameras compared
I took a couple of close-up photos of my bookcase to compare the quality of the cameras in the Nokia N70 and the Nokia E65 Here is a copy of the photo the N70 took: and here is the E65’s photo of the same bookcase (in high quality mode): As you can see from these…
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Nokia E65 quick review
My Nokia E65 arrived today and it is even nicer in reality than the site would have you believe! My first impressions of the phone are very positive although I did get a fright when iSync told me it doesn’t support the E65 – eeek, how am I going to synchronise all my contacts and…