Author: Tom Goskar
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Resolving a fault on a BT phone line and the BT brick wall
For the last few weeks, there has been intermittent noise on our BT phone line. At best, this makes telephone conversations difficult, but worse of all, it plays havoc with our ADSL router. For the last week the noise has been rather persistent, and our router is constantly dropping the connection, and reconnecting at much…
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Photos from the iPhone 4S camera
Yesterday, I bought my first iPhone. I’ve wanted one since they were first launched in 2007, so I feel very lucky to finally have one. Here are some photos taken with the iPhone 4S camera on a walk along Regent’s Canal on a sunny afternoon in London. Many were taken underneath bridges to test the…
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Another new way to connect a Mac to a monitor, another adapter for the collection
According to Apple news website Mac Rumors, Apple’s forthcoming range of hardware include monitors that connect via the recently-introduced Thunderbolt connector. When I gave a lecture earlier this year in Oxford, the venue technician asked if I had a Mac and produced a box of adapters. “Mac? One of these should fit it”. There were…
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HTC Desire and Android 2.3 Gingerbread
I have had an original unlocked and unbranded HTC Desire for more than a year, and it’s still a very fast and capable smartphone. HTC were quick to upgrade it from 2.1 to 2.2 Froyo, and getting those new features have helped to keep the phone ‘fresh’, as it were, for the first six months…
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Nine months with an Apple Magic Trackpad
As of this week, Apple will be offering customers of new desktop Macs the choice of either a Magic Trackpad or a Magic Mouse for no extra cost. Multitouch is here to stay. Since I first saw a multitouch device, the original iPhone, I have always wanted to see more multitouch technology find its way…
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Cornish Choughs in West Cornwall
Two weeks ago I was in the St Just area for a week back in Cornwall, recharging my batteries – a much needed holiday. It’s such a beautiful area; moors, tors, megaliths, wooded valleys, azure seas, granite houses, amazing wildlife, and of course, Cornish choughs. On our first day there Tehmina and I went for…
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Railway Signal Failure in Cardiff 22nd March 2011
I write this as I sit on the train rolling through the north Wiltshire downs. I have been travelling since 6am this morning. Glancing at the clock, it is currently 1pm. By the time I reach Salisbury I will have been travelling in some form or another for 7 and a half hours. So what…
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Cornish Pasties in Swansea, Wales
When I moved to Swansea in Wales last September, I wondered where I might find a decent pasty. I’m Cornish, so it’s one of the things we tend to think about. I scouted around the various bakeries in and around Swansea’s city centre and market, and was not impressed with what I saw. I sampled…