Logitech Marble Mouse
DaleI’ve been using Logitech Marble Mouses (mice?) for years. There are two reasons why: The quality of the Logitech products is very high. Marble mouses are very easy to use,…
So does your HP 8000 Elite PC not burn DVDs?
In the “things I saw ten years ago and never thought I’d see again” category, we recently had the case of the HP 8000 Elite PC which refused to burn…
One charger to charge them all.
I love the Apple iPod charger. Apple call it the iPod charger, but this is the same charger you get with the iPhone. It supplies 5 volts @ 1 Amp. …
DiskDigger says “Excuse me while I nag you to death.”
I liked the DiskDigger un-delete program. Out of the four un-deletion programs I recommended here, DiskDigger was my first choice. Fast forward to now. I stupidly deleted a temp file…
More keyboard & dishwasher fun
Was my first attempt at successfully cleaning a keyboard in a dishwasher a fluke? Well no, as it turns out. Today’s candidate? A 2 year old HP branded keyboard. As…
So is the Western Digital drive really “a permanent USB interface”?
Yes, Pierre Jolicoeur, it really is a permanent USB interface: as this photo shows. I was so disappointed in Western Digital when I saw this. That means I’ll be buying…
Cleaning a keyboard in the dishwasher.
Keyboards get very dirty. Everything seems to drop into them, such as hair, skin flakes, and food. When I learnt how to clean keyboards, cigarette ash was common enough as…
My, hasn’t storage capacity changed over the years.
I’ve talked about working with IBM Mainframes before. I saw this picture over at Alfred Thompson’s blog, and it brought back some memories. Westpac Bank losing a whole data centre…
Deleting those files forever.
If you followed my posts on un-deleting files, you now know that when you delete a file, you can often recover it. A reader asked in email “So can you…
3 un-delete programs I’d actually use.
Not that I’d actually WANT to, but if I had to, it’ll be one of these four three. And truth is, I would probably use several of these programs if…