Gadget: SATA/IDE to USB

Friday, 30 November 2007 | Jason Slater | 2 Comments

This new gadget allows me to to connect pretty much any IDE or SATA hard drive externally to a USB port on my laptop or PC. The drives can be 2.5 inch, 3.5 inch IDE and SATA hard … Read More

Technology Blog of the Week, 30th Nov 2007: gizmosforgeeks.com

Friday, 30 November 2007 | Jason Slater

Gizmos For Geeks started out as an experiment by two system administrators in 2004. The initial idea was to include a daily gizmo of the day and industry related news articles but the site has clearly expanded to be a … Read More

Trialling the Nokia E61i

Friday, 16 November 2007 | Jason Slater | 5 Comments

The Nokia E61i arrived around lunch time and I’ve been configuring (read playing with) it for the last few hours. It took a while to setup the email function (POP account); it required some changes on the servers this end … Read More

Thumb Phones

Wednesday, 14 November 2007 | Jason Slater

I’ve been looking into thumb phones recently (the ones with full little keyboards on them). This was kicked off by someone asking for a Blackberry and not realising there are so many alternatives available (especially as we don’t have BES). … Read More

Gadget Frenzy: Stuck what to do with your 2.5″ Hard Drive?

Saturday, 6 October 2007 | Jason Slater

Got a spare 2.5″ Hard Drive? I have. What about fitting it into the very reasonably priced Portable Multimedia 2.5″ HDD Reader Player With 5.1 Audio Channels and Karaoke Function as shown on the uxcell.com website.

Some of the … Read More