Month: April 2012

A few posts back I talked about cameras I was planning to buy, and mentioned the EOS as a possible option. Once upon a time back in my misspent youth, I had enough money to buy a Pentax Program A, an SLR Pentax film camera with KA mount lens. Over a relatively short period of…

At last the Powershot SX260 has got its NZ release. Although they have been on Canon’s website for a while the release was delayed because (I presume) Canon wished to sell out of stock of the previous model, the SX230. Some places still have stock of the SX230 and are not yet receiving the 260.…

It looks like I can post pictures again from Windows Live Writer, but to do this I have had to change the account that I post messages with. This does not really have any technical impact on the blog itself, but it does indicate that Google’s blogging API has a few bugs in it, and…

As winter approaches, with the new flat and things being different I have decided as previously detailed to change some of my heaters for more efficient power use better suited to the local conditions. Briscoes have had lots of sales lately and I picked up this heater at $119 which is a big drop off…

This useful gizmo (seen below next to the phone and some Microsoft furry rodentry) is an external battery that can charge most USB Micro devices. Mophie’s idea was to charge up things like an ipad or iphone. While they do make a range of battery docks for iphones and ipods, this one doesn’t have any…

I have built up the CTP on a Hyper-V virtual machine. It will be interesting to have a play with it. It will also be interesting to see if it comes to market in time for NZ schools to get their hands on it for the start of the 2013 year. What you can see…

Our block of flats has Power Managers fitted throughout. It’s not a bad little system even though I have run out a few times in the nine months due to financial stringency. Now that my pay has risen to a level that compensates me for the rent increase when I moved here, I can afford…

Just got my hands on a HTC 7 Trophy and it’s not so bad. I might even be able to use it for more than just reading work emails, and perhaps there might even be a chance of it displacing my Nokia 2730 classic. The biggest issue on these phones for someone who enjoys writing…