STA Travel Price Guarantee

No comments January 18th, 2012

It turns out STA Travel’s price promise might not be as good as it sounds. Fascinating blog post by Michael Kinghorn.

Death of a Polaroid

Comments Off December 27th, 2011
I was lucky enough to be bought “Death of a Polaroid” for Christmas. This magnificent photo album documents many of Nicky Wire’s Polaroid snaps throughout the history of the band. With many people (especially technology bloggers) wishing away printed books, it made me realise how electronic books will never be able to replace some things, despite what they might hope for.

Funny message from Samsung on my laptop

Comments Off December 14th, 2011

I found this funny, because hadn’t rebooted my system for more than a week (I always use Sleep) it recommended I restarted.

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What a great user experience! (and not really true since the Windows 98 days).

I had a dig around to try and find out what was causing this popup so I could stop it, and found a setting to only charge the battery up to 100%

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Interesting. Do any battery experts know how doing this improves battery life?

Photostream in Android with Dropbox

Comments Off December 6th, 2011

Windows Phone 7 has always had the ability to automatically upload your photos to Skydrive, and iOS recently gained this feature with iCloud’s photo stream. But how can you do this on Android? The answer is by using a great little app called Real Sync to synchronise with Dropbox.
 
 
Simply add your dropbox account, then set Real Sync to immediately mirror the contents of your SD card’s DCIM folder (you can add rules to ignore large files if you like).

The most pointless notification ever

Comments Off December 5th, 2011

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(and perhaps the most pointless blog post ever!)

Some photos from Hughenden Manor

Comments Off December 4th, 2011