Jun 3, 2009

When we last saw our hero, the Power Monkey, he had successfully charged the iPhone a couple of times, and also had successfully been recharged through the use of the solar charger in 2RDJ’s studio A. I can recall seeing that the charge light on the battery unit, originally glowing red, had changed to green. The LCD indicators were also displaying five...

May 27, 2009

Recently I was privileged to have been invited to the Sydney media launch of the Power Monkey range of products. Briefly, Power Monkey manufacture a range of rechargeable portable power sources for our everyday digital devices. The basic idea is that you charge up your Power Monkey, and you then use that as a power source for your device. This means that, in...

Mar 28, 2009

Bluetooth mobile phone earpieces come and go. Mostly, they go. They’re often uncomfortable, and feel like they want to fall out of my ear. Or they just go ahead and do fall out of my ear, into my lap, onto the floor of the car. Trying to find one, and then replace it into your ear, while doing 100kph odd along the freeway, is not a recommended course of...

Mar 27, 2009

Over the last week I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing the HTC Touch Dream mobile phone. Yes, this is the one powered by Google’s Android operating system. And using Optus as the cellular carrier. More on that later; first up, the phone. As a note, the other reviewer here – Leigh – will occasionally jump in and saw a few words too. His...

Mar 19, 2009

For those of us who have avoided Vista there will be a large number of changes as we move into and learn Windows 7. Amongst those changes, you will find that Windows Explorer’s look and feel has totally changed. Much of that is supposed to be good, but of course any such goodness is probably for each of us to decide. One thing that I found frustrating was...