Category: Hardware
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Logitech a good choice
I bought a new microphone/headset combo at the weekend – a Logitech USB Headset 250. A good price at PC World with added bonuses: it’s Skype certified, and comes with 60 free SkypeOut minutes plus a month’s free voicemail. Nice…
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Vonage V-Phone – a Skype switcher?
A package arrived in the mail a few days ago containing a Vonage V-Phone, a new USB gadget that lets you make phone calls via your internet connection from any computer. Vonage is a familiar name in North America as…
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My Microtrack broke!
I love my Microtrack 24/96 portable digital audio recorder which I bought a few months ago, as my post in June not so subtly (nor concisely) illustrates. It’s been the perfect recording device when on the move. I’ve made quite…
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Dell’s reputation tipping point
All sorts of opinions are flying around about Dell’s recall of over four million laptop computer batteries announced yesterday. A quick scan of blog posts in Technorati show some people saying it’s the largest product recall in consumer electronics history.…
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A PC nostalgia trip
Reading David Tebbutt’s 1981 review of the first IBM PC is quite a trip down memory lane. More so for David, I expect, as he was at the launch on 12 August 1981. Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of that…